Director, Human Factors Engineering

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

• Provides leadership, vision and direction of the ADC Human Factors Engineering and Usability Function
• Develops and leverages product development, data interpretation and establishes external relationships to drive human factors and usability work
• Collaborates across R&D and the division to develop tools to optimize products and development programs strategy and budgets
• Develops processes, tools, and methods that advance evaluation of product designs and concepts at all phases of design
• Collaborates with upstream partners (product managers, market research, UX designers, etc.) to streamline development and de-risks development efforts
• Responsible for effective people leadership, up to Sr. Manager level staff
• Conduct high level program management coordination and strategic division ownership for a wide range of analytical methodologies, approaches and techniques for product characterization
• Manage direct reports at manager, and administrative levels
• Provide management guidance for their organizations to ensure market leading use of technology and product development

• Bachelor’s or M.S. degree in Human Factors Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or other scientific or engineering field
• 10-15 years of management and technical management experience in the medical device industry with minimum 5 years at a senior management role
• Demonstrated track record of building and driving high performance teams in a highly regulated environment
• Experience leading Human Factors activities across the product lifecycle, including ethnographic research, user needs identification, workflow and task analysis, requirements development, user interface design, user error analysis, usability and validation testing
• Extensive knowledge of entire medical device development process from needs definition through regulatory approvals, production, launch, and product life cycle maintenance
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and provide technical leadership
• Proven ability to interface with customers in a highly professional manner
• Ability to quickly assimilate advanced domain knowledge
• Self-motivated problem solver who finds pragmatic solutions to highly technical challenges
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability and desire to travel, including internationally

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Wellness program
• Stock options
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.