Senior Industrial Designer

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

11d

About The Position

Intuitive's Single Port platform is redefining the future of minimally invasive surgery by bringing together advanced robotics, instruments & accessories, and intelligent workflow solutions into a unified surgical ecosystem. As a Senior Industrial Designer at Intuitive, you will help shape the next generation of robotic surgery systems while evolving and refining existing product lines. You are hands-on in every phase of the design process, transforming real user insights into meaningful design opportunities and exceptional user experiences. As a natural collaborator and leader, you will partner closely with engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, product management, and fellow designers to frame, define, and execute future product opportunities. Leveraging a deep understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, color, materials, and manufacturing processes, you will translate complex technical challenges into elegant, intuitive, and manufacturable solutions. You thrive in exploring, prototyping, and testing a wide range of ideas, using evidence and insight to identify opportunities, build alignment, and drive teams toward the right path forward. As a skilled storyteller, you create compelling narratives and presentations that clearly communicate user needs, design vision, and the value of new opportunities, helping inspire confidence and enthusiasm across stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in professional industrial design roles
• An exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a methodical human-centered design process and delivering successful products from concept to production
• A proven track record of collaborating successfully with engineering and product marketing teams to develop designs and bring successful products to market
• A comprehensive set of prototyping skills from quick low-fi foam models to fabricating more complex functional learning prototypes
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills and an ability to effectively communicate a user-centered point of view
• Strong 2D visualization skills, including sketching, storyboarding, and digital rendering
• Strong 3D CAD and visualization skills to develop technically viable and compelling design solutions
• Extensive experience with SolidWorks is required.
• A thorough understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and designing for DFM & DFA considerations
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Design

Nice To Haves

• Specific experience with complex surfacing is a plus.
• Experience with medical device design and/or designing regulated products is a plus
• Has a passion for designing meaningful, revolutionary products that make an impact on people's lives
• Has experience leading and driving design efforts from concept to production
• Is curious about user behaviors and has an eagerness to learn in the field and a lab environment
• Is excited to work on complex problems with a dedicated team of high-energy, high-caliber people
• Approaches work with a strategic, systems-thinking mindset
• Has a natural aptitude for teamwork, thriving on brainstorming, facilitating, and presenting
• Has a high capacity for technical problem solving and execution work
• Is reliable and dedicated to achieving the highest quality design output
• Is a highly creative problem solver
• Learns from, mentors, and inspires other designers
• Can independently work and solve problems, and seek out information as needed
• Takes a bias toward action and an eagerness to support the team and the project
• Employs healthy organization and communication habits, making you a responsive and exemplary team player
• Has a refined aesthetic sensibility and artistic skill
• Has an incurable curiosity relating to all things design

Responsibilities

• Employs a user-centered design process to help teams frame problems and define opportunities
• Individually leads projects, or partners with other industrial design team members on projects
• Works with design leads and design managers on project planning
• Distills technical and ergonomic requirements and develops a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability
• Works with product development and engineering groups early in the product development lifecycle to provide user-centered thought leadership and generate conceptual product designs and opportunities
• Collaborates with other UX Team members to create compelling integrated user experiences
• Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs
• Actively participates in cross-functional team meetings and other forums and proactively drives efforts forward
• Utilizes a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop and communicate design opportunities
• Combines Industrial Design objectives with the objectives of our process partners
• Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms
• Generates functional and appearance prototypes to conceptually explore and validate design choices
• Delivers manufacturable design proposals to engineering for production

Benefits

• market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior