Manager, Software Engineering

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Who We Are

Stryker Instruments is looking for a Manager, R&D to lead our team of talented software engineers within the Neurosurgical R&D team.

This role is hybrid in Portage, Michigan with the expectation to be in the office 3 days a week.

Who We Want

• Managers who drive performance. People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.
• Talent Developers. Growth-oriented managers who recruit and hire top-performing talent and prioritize the development of their team members.
• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.

What You Will Do

As an R&D Manager in the Neurosurgical BU, you will lead a team of Software Engineers to develop innovative devices for use by Neurosurgeons to allow them to perform their procedures. This role will be a part of an R&D leadership team developing products for our Neuro Power and Control portfolio. This role will include the leadership of a team to deliver on project milestones along with supporting the development of our strategic roadmap by progressing projects through our research process.

• Execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
• Define software design best practices and implement through product development.
• Proactively drive positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems.
• Make decisions under guidance for project level challenges.
• Leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.
• Support a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
• Lead projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
• Support and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams, influencing one's own technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
• Drive financial accountability across direct team. Participate in cost center budget creation, projections, and tracking activities.
• Contribute and execute customer facing activities like Voice of Customer and customer centric design in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead a team and cross-functional counterparts to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulatory requirements for a specific project/program.
• Follow and set example for others on procedures and design controls.
• Review and approve (or delegate) program / project specific technical documentation and deliverables.

What You Need

Required:

• B.S. degree (preferred engineering or applicable technical field)
• 8+ yrs experience
• 2+ yrs SW development experience

Preferred:

• 2+ direct people management experience
• Experience in systems engineering

Travel Percentage: 20%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.