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R-545858
Category
Engineering
Location
Multiple Locations
We are the people who give possibilities purpose
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Job Description
Job Summary:
As a Staff-level Innovation leader within BD’s Urology & Critical Care (UCC) organization, you will play a critical role in advancing opportunities through the UCC Innovation Process. This role is focused on transforming validated needs into differentiated, testable, and scalable concepts that are ready for development investment.
This position is intended for an experienced engineer or industrial designer with a strong blend of medical device development discipline and consumer product design mindset. You will lead concept development, prototyping, and learning cycles that balance clinical performance, business viability, and consumer-grade usability.
Your work will directly influence which innovation opportunities progress into the UCC portfolio, shaping next-generation solutions across continence care, infection prevention, monitoring, and home-based therapies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify focus areas for critical innovation projects.
- Translate prioritized needs and value propositions into multiple concept directions, clearly articulating user benefits, technical approach, and business rationale.
- Define target customers and users (patients, caregivers, clinicians) and ensure concepts address distinct needs across care settings, including home use.
- Lead early concept prototyping (physical, digital, experiential) to explore usability, feasibility, and differentiation.
- Partner with engineering, industrial design, human factors, and clinical stakeholders to assess technical readiness and identify critical development gaps.
- Evaluate early IP landscape and contribute to invention disclosures and protection strategies.
- Clearly document assumptions, uncertainties, and learning plans required to advance concepts out of Innovation.
- Refine value propositions and differentiation versus competitive and alternative solutions based on testing and stakeholder feedback.
- Drive concept down-selection using structured criteria including user desirability, technical feasibility, regulatory risk, and business attractiveness.
- Partner with technical to assess design space and critical functions.
- Contribute to early technology and system architecture decisions to support scalable product development.
- Ensure concepts exiting Innovation are clearly defined, evidence-backed, and development-ready.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a central integrator across engineering, design, clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing, and commercial teams.
- Bridge consumer design principles with medical device development rigor, ensuring solutions are intuitive without compromising safety or compliance.
- Collaborate globally to incorporate regional insights and ensure concepts can scale across markets.
Communication & Change Leadership
- Clearly communicate concept rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.
- Use compelling storytelling, visuals, and prototypes to drive understanding and alignment.
- Support innovation capability building within UCC by mentoring teams and contributing to best practices for concept development.
Critical Traits:
- Proven ability to move ambiguity into clarity through structured experimentation and learning.
- Strong judgment in evaluating concepts and making evidence-based recommendations for investment or termination.
- Demonstrated ability to balance user desirability, technical feasibility, and business viability.
- Excellent communication skills across technical, clinical, design, and executive audiences.
- Systems thinker who understands how early decisions impact downstream development, regulatory, and commercialization outcomes.
- Deep empathy for patients, caregivers, and consumers, particularly in home and self-care contexts.
- Comfortable leading without authority and influencing cross-functional teams through insight and credibility.
- Bias toward action, rapid prototyping, and learning-driven progress.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Factors, or related field.
- Minimum of 7+ years experience in medical device development, healthcare innovation, or consumer product development.
- Demonstrated experience progressing concepts from early ideation through validation and down-selection.
- Experience applying structured innovation methods (e.g., Biodesign, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, DFSS).
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, user testing, and formative evaluation.
- Experience designing or developing products intended for home care, self-use, or consumer health environments strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products.
- Travel: Yes, 10% domestic and international.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred (Engineering, Industrial Design, Human-Centered Design, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products.
At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance.
For certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Company’s receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BD’s Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Primary Work Location
USA NC - Durham - Davis Drive
Additional Locations
USA GA - Covington BMD
Work Shift
Job ID
R-545858
Category
Engineering
Location
Multiple Locations
We are the people who give possibilities purpose
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Job Description
Job Summary:
As a Staff-level Innovation leader within BD’s Urology & Critical Care (UCC) organization, you will play a critical role in advancing opportunities through the UCC Innovation Process. This role is focused on transforming validated needs into differentiated, testable, and scalable concepts that are ready for development investment.
This position is intended for an experienced engineer or industrial designer with a strong blend of medical device development discipline and consumer product design mindset. You will lead concept development, prototyping, and learning cycles that balance clinical performance, business viability, and consumer-grade usability.
Your work will directly influence which innovation opportunities progress into the UCC portfolio, shaping next-generation solutions across continence care, infection prevention, monitoring, and home-based therapies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify focus areas for critical innovation projects.
- Translate prioritized needs and value propositions into multiple concept directions, clearly articulating user benefits, technical approach, and business rationale.
- Define target customers and users (patients, caregivers, clinicians) and ensure concepts address distinct needs across care settings, including home use.
- Lead early concept prototyping (physical, digital, experiential) to explore usability, feasibility, and differentiation.
- Partner with engineering, industrial design, human factors, and clinical stakeholders to assess technical readiness and identify critical development gaps.
- Evaluate early IP landscape and contribute to invention disclosures and protection strategies.
- Clearly document assumptions, uncertainties, and learning plans required to advance concepts out of Innovation.
- Refine value propositions and differentiation versus competitive and alternative solutions based on testing and stakeholder feedback.
- Drive concept down-selection using structured criteria including user desirability, technical feasibility, regulatory risk, and business attractiveness.
- Partner with technical to assess design space and critical functions.
- Contribute to early technology and system architecture decisions to support scalable product development.
- Ensure concepts exiting Innovation are clearly defined, evidence-backed, and development-ready.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a central integrator across engineering, design, clinical, regulatory, quality, marketing, and commercial teams.
- Bridge consumer design principles with medical device development rigor, ensuring solutions are intuitive without compromising safety or compliance.
- Collaborate globally to incorporate regional insights and ensure concepts can scale across markets.
Communication & Change Leadership
- Clearly communicate concept rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.
- Use compelling storytelling, visuals, and prototypes to drive understanding and alignment.
- Support innovation capability building within UCC by mentoring teams and contributing to best practices for concept development.
Critical Traits:
- Proven ability to move ambiguity into clarity through structured experimentation and learning.
- Strong judgment in evaluating concepts and making evidence-based recommendations for investment or termination.
- Demonstrated ability to balance user desirability, technical feasibility, and business viability.
- Excellent communication skills across technical, clinical, design, and executive audiences.
- Systems thinker who understands how early decisions impact downstream development, regulatory, and commercialization outcomes.
- Deep empathy for patients, caregivers, and consumers, particularly in home and self-care contexts.
- Comfortable leading without authority and influencing cross-functional teams through insight and credibility.
- Bias toward action, rapid prototyping, and learning-driven progress.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Factors, or related field.
- Minimum of 7+ years experience in medical device development, healthcare innovation, or consumer product development.
- Demonstrated experience progressing concepts from early ideation through validation and down-selection.
- Experience applying structured innovation methods (e.g., Biodesign, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, DFSS).
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, user testing, and formative evaluation.
- Experience designing or developing products intended for home care, self-use, or consumer health environments strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products.
- Travel: Yes, 10% domestic and international.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred (Engineering, Industrial Design, Human-Centered Design, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with regulatory, usability, and risk considerations for medical or health-adjacent products.
At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance.
For certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Company’s receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BD’s Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Primary Work Location
USA NC - Durham - Davis Drive
Additional Locations
USA GA - Covington BMD
Work Shift
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Designer
Align your portfolio to specialty occupation standards
USCIS evaluates whether your role requires a specific degree, not just design skill. Structure your portfolio to show systems-level thinking, design leadership, and cross-functional scope that clearly maps to a bachelor's-level discipline.
Look up prevailing wages before negotiating offers
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the DOL wage level for your SOC code and metro area. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified LCA wage, so knowing Level II versus Level III thresholds before negotiations protects your petition.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Staff Designer roles by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for design occupations. Employers with recent LCA history have an established sponsorship process, which reduces delays after you receive an offer.
Verify the employer's E-Verify enrollment early
If you're on OPT, your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify to authorize STEM OPT extension. Ask HR directly before accepting an offer, since design-heavy agencies and boutique studios frequently skip E-Verify enrollment.
Clarify cap-exempt status for nonprofit and university employers
Design roles at universities, nonprofits, or affiliated research organizations may qualify as cap-exempt, letting your employer file outside the annual H-1B lottery window. Confirm the institution's cap-exempt status with USCIS criteria before counting on that path.
Request premium processing when start date timing is tight
USCIS offers premium processing for H-1B petitions, returning a decision within 15 business days. If your OPT expires close to October 1 or your employer needs a confirmed start date, premium processing removes the uncertainty of standard adjudication timelines.
H-1B Visa Staff Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as graphic design, interaction design, industrial design, or a closely related discipline. Generalist roles listed as requiring any bachelor's degree can face scrutiny. The job description must establish that the degree field is directly tied to the work performed, not just preferred.
How do I find companies that sponsor H-1B visas for Staff Designer positions?
Migrate Mate filters Staff Designer openings by employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history, so you're only seeing roles at companies that have actively sponsored design roles before. This is more reliable than scanning general job postings, where sponsorship willingness is rarely stated upfront.
What SOC code applies to Staff Designer roles for the LCA filing?
Most Staff Designer roles are classified under SOC 27-1024 (Graphic Designers) or SOC 15-1255 (Web and Digital Interface Designers), depending on the work's primary focus. Your employer's immigration attorney selects the code, but you can cross-reference your job duties against O*NET profiles for both codes to confirm which is the stronger fit for your petition.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if I take a Staff Designer role elsewhere?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can begin working for a new employer as soon as the new I-129 petition is filed and receipted by USCIS, without waiting for approval. The new employer must file before your current status expires. Your portfolio and role responsibilities must still satisfy specialty occupation requirements at the new company.
What documentation should I prepare to support an H-1B petition for a Staff Designer position?
You'll need official transcripts showing a qualifying degree, a detailed offer letter specifying design duties tied to that degree field, and evidence of any professional credentials or specialized training. If your degree title doesn't directly match the role, a credentials evaluation from a NACES-member organization can establish equivalency. Your employer's attorney assembles the full I-129 package, but your documents are the foundation.