**Who we want:** **Join Stryker Surgical Technologies as an Associate R&D Manager and lead the innovation in electrosurgical instruments and capital equipment!** We're seeking a dynamic leader to manage and grow our cross-functional team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Design Engineers. You'll be at the forefront of product development, involved in strategic decisions and shaping the future of Surgical Technologies. **What you will do:** **Technical / Managerial Responsibilities** + 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. + Proactively drive positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems. + Make decisions under guidance for project level issues. + 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. **Business Responsibilities:** + 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. **Med Device Compliance:** + 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. Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. 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.