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Digital Director roles qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B visa, requiring a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before sponsorship begins. With no lottery for E-3 visa (Australian nationals) and an uncapped TN visa path for Canadians with matching credentials, senior digital leadership roles attract active sponsors.
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Changing lives. Building Careers.
Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what’s possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.
Changing What’s Possible
At Integra LifeSciences, we are dedicated to restoring patients’ lives through innovative solutions in regenerative tissue technologies, neurosurgery, and surgical reconstruction. Our employees are united by a shared purpose: to improve outcomes for healthcare professionals and the patients they serve.
Position Summary
The Director, R&D Operations, AI & Digital Enablement serves as the recognized R&D authority and internal thought leader for AI, digital enablement, and R&D operating effectiveness. As a strategic partner to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and R&D Leadership Team, the role defines the AI and digital strategy for the global R&D organization, and shapes the standards, operating models, and capabilities required to deliver measurable scientific and business outcomes.
As a key member of the Office of the CTO, this role leads and executes a significant component of R&D functional strategy by leading operating mechanisms, governance, executive communications, and complex cross-functional initiatives that strengthen execution, alignment, and decision-making. The Director champions new AI-enabled systems, concepts, technologies, and ways of working across R&D, solving unique and complex challenges with broad impact on R&D productivity, innovation, portfolio execution, and business performance.
Principal Responsibilities
R& D Operations & Organizational Effectiveness
- Partner with the CTO and R&D Leadership Team to shape and execute R&D functional strategy, translating long-term priorities into operating plans, resource recommendations, standards, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the CTO, developing and implementing new operating approaches that improve productivity, accelerate time-to-market, and enhance overall R&D effectiveness.
- Establish metrics, reporting, and executive dashboards that provide visibility into priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and organizational performance.
- Solve unique and highly complex organizational, portfolio, and technology-enabled challenges by developing innovative analyses, recommendations, and decision frameworks that influence R&D direction and senior executive decisions.
- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the CTO and continuously improve R&D processes and operating effectiveness.
Strategic Communications and Organizational Influence
- Advance strategic initiatives and organizational alignment on behalf of the Office of the CTO.
- Develop communication and engagement strategies that reinforce R&D priorities, business objectives, progress, and organizational change.
- Partner with the CTO and R&D Leadership Team on executive messaging, organizational narratives, and communication approaches that strengthen alignment, engagement, and adoption of strategic initiatives.
- Partner with Communications, Human Resources, and functional leaders to ensure messaging, change management, and stakeholder engagement strategies are aligned with R&D objectives.
- Support CTO interactions with Executive Leadership, Board presentations, strategic reviews, and enterprise initiatives.
AI & Digital Enablement
- Define, own, and execute the R&D AI and digital enablement strategy, multi-year roadmap, standards, and operating model for the global R&D organization, aligned with enterprise technology, data, security, and compliance requirements.
- Anticipate emerging AI, automation, analytics, and digital trends and determine how they should be applied across R&D to address unmet needs, enable new capabilities, and materially improve scientific, operational, and portfolio outcomes.
- Develop and govern a portfolio of AI and digital initiatives aligned with R&D strategy, making recommendations that influence investment priorities, capability standards, adoption measures, impact, and value realization across the function.
- Champion the development and scaling of new AI-enabled systems, concepts, technologies, and standards across R&D, partnering with enterprise technology, data, legal, privacy, security, quality, and business leaders to govern risk and drive sustainable value.
- Serve as R&D’s leading internal expert and thought leader for AI and digital enablement, establishing functional practices, decision principles, and capability-building approaches that shape adoption and ways of working across the global R&D organization.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO and R&D Leadership Team on R&D operating strategy, AI and digital trends, emerging risks, investment choices, and new approaches that may change functional direction.
- Build strong partnerships across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Communications, Legal, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development.
- Facilitate alignment, decision-making, accountability, and execution across organizational boundaries.
- Partner with enterprise leaders to strengthen governance, compliance, evidence generation, innovation, operational readiness, and business continuity.
- Support strategic assessments, technology evaluations, external collaborations, innovation partnerships, and acquisition-related activities, as appropriate.
- Lead through expert influence in direct and matrixed relationships, communicating highly conceptual ideas and persuading senior leaders to adopt new or divergent approaches; drive and support organizational transformation and capability building.
Qualifications
- 12+ year’s experience with Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Significant experience in R&D strategy and operations, AI and/or digital transformation, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines, with broad knowledge across scientific, technology, data, regulatory, quality, and business domains.
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives and translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization and influence across enterprise functions.
- Strong business acumen, analytical capability, executive presence, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated success defining functional AI or digital strategy and championing new systems, concepts, technologies, standards, or methodologies that produced broad and measurable organizational impact.
- Experience in medical devices, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry preferred.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate is a recognized internal thought leader who combines mastery of R&D operations and AI-enabled transformation with broad knowledge across scientific, technology, data, regulatory, quality, and business disciplines. This individual develops innovative approaches to unique and complex challenges, translates highly conceptual ideas into scalable solutions, and influences senior leaders to adopt new or divergent points of view. The role requires comfort operating under consultative direction toward long-term objectives in a highly visible environment, navigating ambiguity, influencing across organizational boundaries, and driving outcomes that shape R&D performance, capability, and direction.
Role Purpose
Enable a high-performing R&D organization by strengthening operational excellence, defining the R&D AI and digital strategy, and championing innovative systems, standards, concepts, and ways of working that deliver broad and measurable impact, while fostering effective collaboration across the enterprise.
Salary Pay Range:
$166,750.00 - $228,850.00 USD Salary
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by several factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for bonus, commission, equity or other variable compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance, and savings plan (401(k)).
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following Total Rewards | Integra LifeSciences
Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.
This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices:
EEO Is the Law | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans
Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at careers@integralife.com.
Unsolicited Agency Submission
Integra LifeSciences does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs/resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. A formal written agreement is required before engaging any agency, and it must be executed and authorized by the Vice President, Talent Acquisition. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions (the initial sharing of a candidate’s name, resume, or background) are position-specific and may only occur within the scope of that approved agreement. Please, no phone calls or emails.
INTRODUCTION
Changing lives. Building Careers.
Joining us is a chance to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, our colleagues are challenging what’s possible and making headway to innovate new treatment pathways to advance patient outcomes and set new standards of care.
Changing What’s Possible
At Integra LifeSciences, we are dedicated to restoring patients’ lives through innovative solutions in regenerative tissue technologies, neurosurgery, and surgical reconstruction. Our employees are united by a shared purpose: to improve outcomes for healthcare professionals and the patients they serve.
Position Summary
The Director, R&D Operations, AI & Digital Enablement serves as the recognized R&D authority and internal thought leader for AI, digital enablement, and R&D operating effectiveness. As a strategic partner to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and R&D Leadership Team, the role defines the AI and digital strategy for the global R&D organization, and shapes the standards, operating models, and capabilities required to deliver measurable scientific and business outcomes.
As a key member of the Office of the CTO, this role leads and executes a significant component of R&D functional strategy by leading operating mechanisms, governance, executive communications, and complex cross-functional initiatives that strengthen execution, alignment, and decision-making. The Director champions new AI-enabled systems, concepts, technologies, and ways of working across R&D, solving unique and complex challenges with broad impact on R&D productivity, innovation, portfolio execution, and business performance.
Principal Responsibilities
R& D Operations & Organizational Effectiveness
- Partner with the CTO and R&D Leadership Team to shape and execute R&D functional strategy, translating long-term priorities into operating plans, resource recommendations, standards, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the CTO, developing and implementing new operating approaches that improve productivity, accelerate time-to-market, and enhance overall R&D effectiveness.
- Establish metrics, reporting, and executive dashboards that provide visibility into priorities, resources, risks, dependencies, and organizational performance.
- Solve unique and highly complex organizational, portfolio, and technology-enabled challenges by developing innovative analyses, recommendations, and decision frameworks that influence R&D direction and senior executive decisions.
- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the CTO and continuously improve R&D processes and operating effectiveness.
Strategic Communications and Organizational Influence
- Advance strategic initiatives and organizational alignment on behalf of the Office of the CTO.
- Develop communication and engagement strategies that reinforce R&D priorities, business objectives, progress, and organizational change.
- Partner with the CTO and R&D Leadership Team on executive messaging, organizational narratives, and communication approaches that strengthen alignment, engagement, and adoption of strategic initiatives.
- Partner with Communications, Human Resources, and functional leaders to ensure messaging, change management, and stakeholder engagement strategies are aligned with R&D objectives.
- Support CTO interactions with Executive Leadership, Board presentations, strategic reviews, and enterprise initiatives.
AI & Digital Enablement
- Define, own, and execute the R&D AI and digital enablement strategy, multi-year roadmap, standards, and operating model for the global R&D organization, aligned with enterprise technology, data, security, and compliance requirements.
- Anticipate emerging AI, automation, analytics, and digital trends and determine how they should be applied across R&D to address unmet needs, enable new capabilities, and materially improve scientific, operational, and portfolio outcomes.
- Develop and govern a portfolio of AI and digital initiatives aligned with R&D strategy, making recommendations that influence investment priorities, capability standards, adoption measures, impact, and value realization across the function.
- Champion the development and scaling of new AI-enabled systems, concepts, technologies, and standards across R&D, partnering with enterprise technology, data, legal, privacy, security, quality, and business leaders to govern risk and drive sustainable value.
- Serve as R&D’s leading internal expert and thought leader for AI and digital enablement, establishing functional practices, decision principles, and capability-building approaches that shape adoption and ways of working across the global R&D organization.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO and R&D Leadership Team on R&D operating strategy, AI and digital trends, emerging risks, investment choices, and new approaches that may change functional direction.
- Build strong partnerships across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Communications, Legal, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development.
- Facilitate alignment, decision-making, accountability, and execution across organizational boundaries.
- Partner with enterprise leaders to strengthen governance, compliance, evidence generation, innovation, operational readiness, and business continuity.
- Support strategic assessments, technology evaluations, external collaborations, innovation partnerships, and acquisition-related activities, as appropriate.
- Lead through expert influence in direct and matrixed relationships, communicating highly conceptual ideas and persuading senior leaders to adopt new or divergent approaches; drive and support organizational transformation and capability building.
Qualifications
- 12+ year’s experience with Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Significant experience in R&D strategy and operations, AI and/or digital transformation, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines, with broad knowledge across scientific, technology, data, regulatory, quality, and business domains.
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives and translating strategic priorities into measurable outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization and influence across enterprise functions.
- Strong business acumen, analytical capability, executive presence, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated success defining functional AI or digital strategy and championing new systems, concepts, technologies, standards, or methodologies that produced broad and measurable organizational impact.
- Experience in medical devices, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry preferred.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate is a recognized internal thought leader who combines mastery of R&D operations and AI-enabled transformation with broad knowledge across scientific, technology, data, regulatory, quality, and business disciplines. This individual develops innovative approaches to unique and complex challenges, translates highly conceptual ideas into scalable solutions, and influences senior leaders to adopt new or divergent points of view. The role requires comfort operating under consultative direction toward long-term objectives in a highly visible environment, navigating ambiguity, influencing across organizational boundaries, and driving outcomes that shape R&D performance, capability, and direction.
Role Purpose
Enable a high-performing R&D organization by strengthening operational excellence, defining the R&D AI and digital strategy, and championing innovative systems, standards, concepts, and ways of working that deliver broad and measurable impact, while fostering effective collaboration across the enterprise.
Salary Pay Range:
$166,750.00 - $228,850.00 USD Salary
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by several factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for bonus, commission, equity or other variable compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance, and savings plan (401(k)).
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following Total Rewards | Integra LifeSciences
Integra LifeSciences is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of race, marital status, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.
This site is governed solely by applicable U.S. laws and governmental regulations. If you'd like more information on your rights under the law, please see the following notices:
EEO Is the Law | EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans
Integra LifeSciences is committed to provide qualified applicants and employees who are disabled veterans or individuals with disabilities with needed reasonable accommodations in accordance with the ADA. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please email us at careers@integralife.com.
Unsolicited Agency Submission
Integra LifeSciences does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs/resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. A formal written agreement is required before engaging any agency, and it must be executed and authorized by the Vice President, Talent Acquisition. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions (the initial sharing of a candidate’s name, resume, or background) are position-specific and may only occur within the scope of that approved agreement. Please, no phone calls or emails.
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Align your degree to the role
Digital Director job descriptions vary widely, so verify your degree field maps directly to the posted requirements. USCIS denies H-1B petitions when the degree-to-role connection is indirect, and marketing degrees supporting a purely technical role often trigger Requests for Evidence.
Use OFLC data to benchmark your offer
Before accepting an offer, run the posted role through the OFLC Wage Search to confirm the salary meets the prevailing wage for your metro area. An employer's LCA will be rejected if the offered wage falls below the DOL-certified level for that location and role.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Filter your job search to employers who have recently certified LCAs for digital or marketing leadership roles. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsorship history by role and location, so you can prioritize outreach to companies already familiar with the LCA process.
Clarify the O*NET classification upfront
Ask hiring managers which O*NET occupation code they intend to use for your petition. Digital Director roles can be classified under advertising, marketing, or computer occupations, and the classification affects prevailing wage tier and specialty occupation eligibility throughout your sponsorship case.
Get employer PERM commitment in writing early
If you're targeting a green card path alongside your work visa, confirm whether the employer is willing to begin PERM labor certification before your H-1B period expires. Waiting until year five leaves no buffer if DOL audits the recruitment process and extends certification timelines.
Distinguish portfolio evidence from credential evidence
Your portfolio matters for the hire, but USCIS evaluates the degree requirement, not campaign results. Submit an official transcript and a credential evaluation from a NACES-accredited organization if your degree was earned outside the U.S. before the employer files Form I-129.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Digital Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer's job description requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as marketing, communications, digital media, or business. Generic postings that list a degree as preferred rather than required can jeopardize the specialty occupation determination. The employer's LCA and I-129 petition must both reflect a mandatory degree requirement tied to the specific duties of the role.
Which visa types are available to Digital Director candidates seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path and covers all nationalities, though it is subject to an annual cap and selection process. Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which carries a separate annual cap that has never been exhausted and requires no lottery. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify for TN status under the USMCA if the role maps to a recognized profession on the TN list, such as management consultant or computer systems analyst, depending on how duties are classified.
How do I find Digital Director jobs with confirmed visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Digital Director roles from employers with verified sponsorship history, so you can focus on companies that have actively filed for similar positions rather than applying broadly and discovering sponsorship limitations late in the process.
Will a three-year bachelor's degree from Australia satisfy USCIS requirements for a Digital Director H-1B?
USCIS generally accepts three-year Australian bachelor's degrees as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for specialty occupation purposes, particularly when accompanied by a credential evaluation from a NACES-accredited organization. The evaluation should confirm the degree is equivalent in level and field to a U.S. bachelor's in marketing, communications, or a comparable discipline relevant to the Digital Director duties described in the petition.
Can a Digital Director on H-1B status change employers mid-sponsorship?
Yes. Because you're already in H-1B status, you can begin working for a new employer as soon as the new employer files a transfer petition with USCIS, without waiting for approval. This is H-1B portability. The new employer must file a fresh I-129 petition and a new LCA certified for the specific role and work location before you start. Any green card process tied to your previous employer does not transfer automatically.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Digital Director jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.