Product Quality Senior Designer
Zimmer Biomet · Salt Lake City, UT · 3 wk ago
On-siteArt & CreativeFull-time
About the Role
As a Product Quality Sr Designer, you will play a key role in refining existing documentation and ensuring continued regulatory alignment to support new and existing products.
Responsibilities
- Project Management: Lead and promote agile practices across scrum teams. Support project planning and execution. Maintain roadmaps, backlogs, and project tracking boards.
- System Design:
- Define the design approach, ensuring alignment with product objectives, user needs, clinical workflows, and system performance.
- Translate user needs into engineering-level requirements that are objectively verifiable.
- Lead design discussions and technical reviews, evaluating alternatives and trade-offs.
- Ensure design decisions address usability, risk mitigation, technical feasibility, and long-term product sustainability.
- System Testing:
- Implement and review product verification and validation (V&V) testing, including developing test protocols and test cases.
- Perform manual and automated testing and document results accurately.
- Product Documentation:
- Collaborate with QA, Service, Compliance, and Regulatory teams to meet documentation requirements and ensure cross-functional alignment.
- Create, review, and maintain risk management files, including cybersecurity risks.
- Ensure all product requirements are documented and maintained.
- Ensure compliance with international standards and regulations.
- Maintain the Design History File (DHF) to be complete, accurate, and regulatory-compliant, addressing gaps proactively.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science-related field; biomedical engineering preferred.
- 5+ years of experience.
- Experience with agile methodology; preferably holds a previous role as a scrum master.
- Strong analytical skills and accurate judgment-making skills.
- Ability to deal effectively with internal and external collaborators.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Qualifications
- Solid background in medical device design controls and product development, with direct experience in regulatory compliance and documentation.
- Experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
- Experience in design controls in a multi-disciplinary organization.
- Experience drafting and maintaining DHF (Design History File) content, including user needs, design inputs, design outputs, traceability matrices, and risk documentation.
- Ability to support risk analysis (e.g., uFMEA) and contribute to usability planning and design mitigations.
- Familiarity with ISO 14971 is required; IEC 62366 preferred.
- Ability to define testable requirements, support V&V protocol development, and ensure traceability in collaboration with the Product Development team.
- Experience in a regulatory environment with strict compliance.
- Experience with Windchill, Codebeamer, Jira, or similar tools.
Benefits
- Development opportunities and robust employee resource groups (ERGs).
- Flexible working environment.
- Location-specific competitive total rewards.
- Wellness incentives.
- Culture of recognition and performance awards.
- Inclusive, respectful, and empowering work environment.