Concept Research Manager Position Available In Broward, Florida

Work Flexibility:

Hybrid Stryker’s Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies organization is looking for a hybrid thinker—part designer, part marketer—who thrives in the early front-end of innovation. This role bridges design strategy and upstream marketing, focused on identifying white space opportunities and advancing them through the discovery and early validation process. You won’t be taking ideas all the way through commercialization, but rather setting the strategic vision and ensuring strong handoff to our New Product Development (NPD) teams. Join us to help shape what’s next—before the market even knows it needs it. Get to know

Stryker’s DRE:

Careers Blog – DRE This role is hybrid with the expectation to be on-site in Weston, FL, 3 days a week.

What you will do:

Lead early-stage opportunity development by combining user-centered design and marketing strategy to identify, define, and prioritize new innovation opportunities. Conduct design-thinking workshops to explore and ideate around unmet user needs. Create compelling visual assets including journey maps, storyboards, renderings, and animations to communicate ideas and strategies. Drive initiatives through the DRE Discovery Process, ensuring alignment with cross-functional partners and stakeholders. Build strong business cases based on desirability, feasibility, and viability assessments. Collaborate with key stakeholders – Market Insights, R D, and Business Unit Leaders – to translate research findings into actionable strategies and present recommendations to executive leadership. Collaborate with stakeholders in Marketing, R D, and the Business Unit to ensure a smooth transition from concept generation to new product development. Works on both hardware and digital design concepts and creates wireframes, renderings, prototypes, and other design artifacts to communicate concepts and associated value propositions to project teams, leadership and customers.

What you need:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, UX Design, Engineering or related. 8+ years experience 4+ years product development/design experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate design-thinking and ideation sessions. Strong skills in visual storytelling tools such as journey mapping, storyboarding, or rapid concept rendering. Experience working in upstream marketing or front-end innovation with cross-functional teams. Familiarity with translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable opportunity areas. Ability to craft strategic business cases for early-stage concepts. Clear understanding of the handoff process from discovery to new product development, including stakeholder management and alignment.

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. Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com Work Flexibility Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location. Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based. Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category. Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.