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New Product Development roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship when employers complete PERM labor certification, file an I-140 petition, and demonstrate a permanent business need. Your background in product lifecycle management, R&D coordination, or cross-functional team leadership strengthens the specialty occupation case and speeds the sponsorship process.
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Get Access To All JobsImagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.
Dedicated to innovation, our Surgical business unit is focused on identifying and solving critical, unmet needs in cardiac surgery. In understanding the challenges of open-heart surgery, we partner with surgical teams to deliver modern technologies intended to enhance patients’ quality of life and expand their potential treatment opportunities. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
How you will make an impact:
- Provide technical leadership and manage a team of manufacturing engineers to lead the development, qualification, and transfer of manufacturing processes to successfully commercialize new products in the Surgical Business Unit.
- Advance engineering activities from early product development through product launch while ensuring that manufacturing processes are developed that fully meet the operational needs for commercial success.
- Act as a liaison between R&D, supplier development, Global Supply Chain (GSC), quality, and sustaining operations to ensure readiness to seamlessly plan, source, make and deliver the product to customers around the world.
- Partner with New Product Introduction Managers, Pilot and Sustaining Operations, and Edwards manufacturing global locations to ensure successful outcomes towards the development, scaleup and transfer of manufacturing operations including the development of harmonized validations strategies and attainment of stability metrics. Drive line and capacity expansion plans in manufacturing locations in collaboration with demand planning and commercial groups for uninterrupted product supply.
- Provide technical leadership for the Surgical business unit’s manufacturing engineering (ME) team for successful process development, design for manufacturability, design and process excellence methodologies including Six Sigma, LEAN, cGMP, EH&S guidelines, supplier development and process validation.
- Manage/oversee the work direct reports within own function and/or cross functional project teams. Support the development of PMOs and individual development plans (IDPs) for the team. Develop a robust talent development plan in alignment with functional growth strategies of the individual and the department.
- Plan and manage project activities (e.g., VIP/value engineering, COGS reduction activities, process improvement, etc.) with accountability for successful completion of all deliverables to the business. Where appropriate develop project plans, schedule, scope, and objectives while using engineering methods (e.g., SIX Sigma and LEAN methods).
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering or scientific discipline.
- Manufacturing operations experience with five of those years in the product development process and introduction of new products into supply chain in the medical device industry.
- Experience in preparing for and presenting project status to executive leadership, including the development, and managing of dashboards.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%, both domestically and internationally, as required to support business and manufacturing needs.
- On-site presence required to effectively lead teams, collaborate cross-functionally, and support manufacturing operations.
What else we look for:
- Advanced engineering degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Experience in the medical device industry.
- 12 years of experience with 5 years of people leadership experience.
- Knowledge of design controls for Class II & III medical devices, including familiarity with one or more of the following: implantable NiTi, CoCr & tissue, mechanical devices, catheter-based delivery system.
- Ability to set clear expectations and orchestrate all Operations activities related to planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and associated functions.
- Expert understanding of engineering procedures while addressing issues with impact beyond own team based on knowledge of related disciplines, and financial acumen as it relates to engineering.
- Strong collaborator and communicator with a high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to understand business partner needs and manage satisfaction relative to deliverables.
Experience in organizational change management possessing skills and ability to influence stakeholders, manage and socialize expectations, understand trade-offs and their impact, and mobilize cross functional teams to make effective business and patient focused decisions.
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
For California, the base pay range for this position is $159,000 to $226,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
COVID Vaccination Requirement
Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.
Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.
Dedicated to innovation, our Surgical business unit is focused on identifying and solving critical, unmet needs in cardiac surgery. In understanding the challenges of open-heart surgery, we partner with surgical teams to deliver modern technologies intended to enhance patients’ quality of life and expand their potential treatment opportunities. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
How you will make an impact:
- Provide technical leadership and manage a team of manufacturing engineers to lead the development, qualification, and transfer of manufacturing processes to successfully commercialize new products in the Surgical Business Unit.
- Advance engineering activities from early product development through product launch while ensuring that manufacturing processes are developed that fully meet the operational needs for commercial success.
- Act as a liaison between R&D, supplier development, Global Supply Chain (GSC), quality, and sustaining operations to ensure readiness to seamlessly plan, source, make and deliver the product to customers around the world.
- Partner with New Product Introduction Managers, Pilot and Sustaining Operations, and Edwards manufacturing global locations to ensure successful outcomes towards the development, scaleup and transfer of manufacturing operations including the development of harmonized validations strategies and attainment of stability metrics. Drive line and capacity expansion plans in manufacturing locations in collaboration with demand planning and commercial groups for uninterrupted product supply.
- Provide technical leadership for the Surgical business unit’s manufacturing engineering (ME) team for successful process development, design for manufacturability, design and process excellence methodologies including Six Sigma, LEAN, cGMP, EH&S guidelines, supplier development and process validation.
- Manage/oversee the work direct reports within own function and/or cross functional project teams. Support the development of PMOs and individual development plans (IDPs) for the team. Develop a robust talent development plan in alignment with functional growth strategies of the individual and the department.
- Plan and manage project activities (e.g., VIP/value engineering, COGS reduction activities, process improvement, etc.) with accountability for successful completion of all deliverables to the business. Where appropriate develop project plans, schedule, scope, and objectives while using engineering methods (e.g., SIX Sigma and LEAN methods).
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering or scientific discipline.
- Manufacturing operations experience with five of those years in the product development process and introduction of new products into supply chain in the medical device industry.
- Experience in preparing for and presenting project status to executive leadership, including the development, and managing of dashboards.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%, both domestically and internationally, as required to support business and manufacturing needs.
- On-site presence required to effectively lead teams, collaborate cross-functionally, and support manufacturing operations.
What else we look for:
- Advanced engineering degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Experience in the medical device industry.
- 12 years of experience with 5 years of people leadership experience.
- Knowledge of design controls for Class II & III medical devices, including familiarity with one or more of the following: implantable NiTi, CoCr & tissue, mechanical devices, catheter-based delivery system.
- Ability to set clear expectations and orchestrate all Operations activities related to planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and associated functions.
- Expert understanding of engineering procedures while addressing issues with impact beyond own team based on knowledge of related disciplines, and financial acumen as it relates to engineering.
- Strong collaborator and communicator with a high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to understand business partner needs and manage satisfaction relative to deliverables.
Experience in organizational change management possessing skills and ability to influence stakeholders, manage and socialize expectations, understand trade-offs and their impact, and mobilize cross functional teams to make effective business and patient focused decisions.
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
For California, the base pay range for this position is $159,000 to $226,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
COVID Vaccination Requirement
Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in New Product Development
Document your product lifecycle contributions precisely
PERM requires your employer to define a specific minimum requirement for the role. Gather performance reviews, project scopes, and launch documentation showing your specialized R&D or commercialization work before the labor certification process begins.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Companies that have filed PERM applications for New Product Development roles already understand the DOL audit requirements and specialty occupation framing. Use Migrate Mate to search for green-card-sponsoring employers filtered by this job category.
Clarify whether your role qualifies as EB-2 or EB-3
EB-2 covers advanced-degree professionals or EB-2-eligible candidates with distinguished credentials. EB-3 covers roles requiring a bachelor's degree. The distinction affects your priority date and total timeline, so confirm your classification with your employer's immigration counsel before the I-140 is filed.
Understand the prevailing wage requirement for your market
Your employer must pay at least the DOL-certified prevailing wage for your position and location. Check the OFLC Wage Search to see what Level II or Level III wages apply to your New Product Development role before negotiating your offer.
Prepare your educational credentials for PERM review
If your degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation completed early. PERM job requirements must match your actual qualifications, and a delayed evaluation can stall the labor certification filing by several months.
Ask employers about concurrent filing eligibility
Once your priority date is current, you may be able to file your I-140 and I-485 adjustment of status simultaneously, cutting months off the process. Confirm with USCIS Visa Bulletin guidance whether your country and preference category allow concurrent filing at offer stage.
Green Card New Product Development: Frequently Asked Questions
Do New Product Development jobs commonly qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Yes. New Product Development roles typically require at minimum a bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field, placing them squarely in EB-3 professional territory. Roles requiring a master's degree or equivalent specialized experience in R&D strategy, technical product commercialization, or advanced materials development can qualify under EB-2. Your employer's immigration attorney will determine the appropriate category based on the specific job duties and minimum requirements set in the PERM application.
How does the green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
The green card path via PERM, I-140, and adjustment of status leads to permanent residency rather than temporary status. Unlike the H-1B lottery, there's no annual random selection for EB-3, though country-specific backlogs apply for applicants from India and China. PERM adds a DOL labor market test step that H-1B visa does not require, making employer commitment and timeline planning more critical from the start.
What does the PERM labor certification process look like for a New Product Development role?
Your employer posts the position through a DOL-prescribed recruitment process, documents that no qualified U.S. workers applied, and certifies it to the DOL. For specialized New Product Development roles, defining the precise minimum requirements matters: overly generic job descriptions can trigger audits. The certification step alone can take six to twelve months, followed by the I-140 petition and the wait for a current priority date before you can file for adjustment of status.
How can I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for New Product Development positions?
Searching general job boards won't surface green card sponsorship willingness reliably. Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for employers with green card sponsorship history in product development roles, so you're targeting companies that have already completed PERM filings rather than hoping an employer will agree to sponsor after an offer.
Does my country of birth affect my green card timeline in this category?
Yes. Priority dates for EB-2 and EB-3 are current for most nationalities, meaning the wait after I-140 approval is minimal. Applicants born in India and China face significant backlogs in both categories due to per-country annual limits. If you're subject to a backlog, your employer can still file and certify your PERM early so your priority date is established as soon as possible, minimizing your total wait time.