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Vice President of Program Management roles qualify as specialty occupations for H-1B visa sponsorship, typically requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in business, engineering, or a related field. Employers in tech, finance, and healthcare regularly file LCAs for this title, and the role's strategic seniority means strong sponsorship demand across industries.
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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 Vice President, R&D Program Management is responsible for maximizing the value, performance, and strategic impact of Integra LifeSciences’ Innovation, New Product Development (NPD), and Lifecycle Management (LCM) investments.
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this executive leads the global R&D program and portfolio management function, with accountability for portfolio strategy, investment governance, financial performance, resource allocation, and execution. As a member of the R&D Leadership Team, the Vice President ensures innovation investments, development priorities, and portfolio resources are aligned with business strategy, customer needs, market opportunities, and long-term growth objectives.
The role also owns Integra’s enterprise product development system and NPD Transformation, establishing the capabilities, governance, processes, and performance disciplines required to create a scalable, predictable, and high-performing innovation engine.
Responsibilities
Portfolio Strategy & Execution:
- Lead Integra’s enterprise Innovation, NPD, and Lifecycle Management portfolio.
- Translate business strategy into a balanced, funded, and executable pipeline of innovation and product development investments.
- Own portfolio prioritization, investment recommendations, and resource allocation decisions.
- Balance long-term innovation opportunities with near-term growth and lifecycle management priorities.
- Ensure effective execution from concept through commercialization and product sustainment.
- Provide portfolio insights, scenarios, and recommendations to the CTO and Executive Leadership Team.
- Lead enterprise portfolio management across Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management initiatives.
- Translate divisional portfolio priorities into an integrated, transparent, and executable enterprise portfolio.
- Establish portfolio governance, prioritization frameworks, and scenario-planning processes to support investment and portfolio decisions by business and functional leaders.
- Provide enterprise-wide visibility, performance insights, and recommendations regarding portfolio priorities, trade-offs, risks, and value delivery.
- Drive portfolio execution discipline and oversight from concept through commercialization to ensure predictable delivery against strategic objectives.
Investment, Budget & Resource Leadership:
- Own program budgets across Innovation, NPD, and LCM initiatives.
- Lead investment planning, funding decisions, and capacity planning.
- Partner with Finance and functional leaders to align investments, staffing, and organizational capabilities with strategic priorities.
- Monitor investment performance, spending, forecast accuracy, and resource utilization.
- Lead trade-off decisions involving funding, staffing, timing, risk, and strategic priorities.
Product Development System & NPD Transformation:
- Own Integra’s enterprise product development system and lead its ongoing transformation.
- Modernize development governance, decision-making, operating processes, and performance management.
- Establish common standards for portfolio management, program execution, resource planning, risk management, and executive reporting.
- Strengthen cross-functional accountability, decision rights, and execution discipline.
- Build capabilities that improve speed, predictability, innovation productivity, quality, and portfolio value.
- Define and monitor performance indicators related to development cycle time, milestone predictability, resource utilization, innovation outcomes, and portfolio health.
Enterprise Leadership & Partnership:
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO and senior member of the R&D Leadership Team.
- Build strong partnerships across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development.
- Partner with Commercial and Marketing leaders to connect investment decisions with customer insights, market opportunities, and competitive dynamics.
- Support strategic assessments, technology evaluations, external partnerships, and acquisition-related activities.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, and results.
Governance & Risk Management:
- Establish governance that enables clear accountability, timely decisions, effective oversight, and disciplined execution.
- Ensure programs meet applicable quality, regulatory, compliance, and design-control requirements.
- Drive proactive identification and mitigation of program and portfolio risks.
Qualifications
- 15+ years' experience with a bachelor's degree in engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
- Significant leadership experience in portfolio management, product development, innovation, R&D, program management, or related fields.
- Demonstrated success leading Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management investments within a complex global organization.
- Experience managing substantial product development budgets, investment decisions, and resource-allocation activities.
- Strong financial acumen, including investment planning, forecasting, business-case development, and portfolio governance.
- Proven success leading enterprise transformation and organizational change initiatives.
- Exceptional executive communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Medical device, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated industry experience preferred.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate is an enterprise leader who combines strategic judgment, financial discipline, and operational rigor. This individual excels at shaping investment decisions, translating strategy into execution, and aligning diverse stakeholders around common objectives.
This leader is recognized for shaping strategic investments, building high-performing teams, and making thoughtful portfolio trade-offs that maximize growth, innovation impact, and enterprise value. They create the governance and execution discipline required to deliver sustainable innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and business performance.
Role Purpose
Lead Integra’s R&D program management organization, enterprise product development system, and NPD Transformation to deliver a high-performing portfolio of Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management investments that accelerate growth, strengthen competitiveness, create enterprise value, and improve patient outcomes.
Salary Pay Range:
$225,400.00 - $316,250.00 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 Vice President, R&D Program Management is responsible for maximizing the value, performance, and strategic impact of Integra LifeSciences’ Innovation, New Product Development (NPD), and Lifecycle Management (LCM) investments.
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this executive leads the global R&D program and portfolio management function, with accountability for portfolio strategy, investment governance, financial performance, resource allocation, and execution. As a member of the R&D Leadership Team, the Vice President ensures innovation investments, development priorities, and portfolio resources are aligned with business strategy, customer needs, market opportunities, and long-term growth objectives.
The role also owns Integra’s enterprise product development system and NPD Transformation, establishing the capabilities, governance, processes, and performance disciplines required to create a scalable, predictable, and high-performing innovation engine.
Responsibilities
Portfolio Strategy & Execution:
- Lead Integra’s enterprise Innovation, NPD, and Lifecycle Management portfolio.
- Translate business strategy into a balanced, funded, and executable pipeline of innovation and product development investments.
- Own portfolio prioritization, investment recommendations, and resource allocation decisions.
- Balance long-term innovation opportunities with near-term growth and lifecycle management priorities.
- Ensure effective execution from concept through commercialization and product sustainment.
- Provide portfolio insights, scenarios, and recommendations to the CTO and Executive Leadership Team.
- Lead enterprise portfolio management across Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management initiatives.
- Translate divisional portfolio priorities into an integrated, transparent, and executable enterprise portfolio.
- Establish portfolio governance, prioritization frameworks, and scenario-planning processes to support investment and portfolio decisions by business and functional leaders.
- Provide enterprise-wide visibility, performance insights, and recommendations regarding portfolio priorities, trade-offs, risks, and value delivery.
- Drive portfolio execution discipline and oversight from concept through commercialization to ensure predictable delivery against strategic objectives.
Investment, Budget & Resource Leadership:
- Own program budgets across Innovation, NPD, and LCM initiatives.
- Lead investment planning, funding decisions, and capacity planning.
- Partner with Finance and functional leaders to align investments, staffing, and organizational capabilities with strategic priorities.
- Monitor investment performance, spending, forecast accuracy, and resource utilization.
- Lead trade-off decisions involving funding, staffing, timing, risk, and strategic priorities.
Product Development System & NPD Transformation:
- Own Integra’s enterprise product development system and lead its ongoing transformation.
- Modernize development governance, decision-making, operating processes, and performance management.
- Establish common standards for portfolio management, program execution, resource planning, risk management, and executive reporting.
- Strengthen cross-functional accountability, decision rights, and execution discipline.
- Build capabilities that improve speed, predictability, innovation productivity, quality, and portfolio value.
- Define and monitor performance indicators related to development cycle time, milestone predictability, resource utilization, innovation outcomes, and portfolio health.
Enterprise Leadership & Partnership:
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO and senior member of the R&D Leadership Team.
- Build strong partnerships across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Strategy, and Business Development.
- Partner with Commercial and Marketing leaders to connect investment decisions with customer insights, market opportunities, and competitive dynamics.
- Support strategic assessments, technology evaluations, external partnerships, and acquisition-related activities.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, and results.
Governance & Risk Management:
- Establish governance that enables clear accountability, timely decisions, effective oversight, and disciplined execution.
- Ensure programs meet applicable quality, regulatory, compliance, and design-control requirements.
- Drive proactive identification and mitigation of program and portfolio risks.
Qualifications
- 15+ years' experience with a bachelor's degree in engineering, Science, Technology, Business, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
- Significant leadership experience in portfolio management, product development, innovation, R&D, program management, or related fields.
- Demonstrated success leading Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management investments within a complex global organization.
- Experience managing substantial product development budgets, investment decisions, and resource-allocation activities.
- Strong financial acumen, including investment planning, forecasting, business-case development, and portfolio governance.
- Proven success leading enterprise transformation and organizational change initiatives.
- Exceptional executive communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Medical device, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated industry experience preferred.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate is an enterprise leader who combines strategic judgment, financial discipline, and operational rigor. This individual excels at shaping investment decisions, translating strategy into execution, and aligning diverse stakeholders around common objectives.
This leader is recognized for shaping strategic investments, building high-performing teams, and making thoughtful portfolio trade-offs that maximize growth, innovation impact, and enterprise value. They create the governance and execution discipline required to deliver sustainable innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and business performance.
Role Purpose
Lead Integra’s R&D program management organization, enterprise product development system, and NPD Transformation to deliver a high-performing portfolio of Innovation, New Product Development, and Lifecycle Management investments that accelerate growth, strengthen competitiveness, create enterprise value, and improve patient outcomes.
Salary Pay Range:
$225,400.00 - $316,250.00 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 specialty occupation standards
VP of Program Management roles require a directly related degree for H-1B eligibility. A generic business degree can work, but a degree in engineering, computer science, or operations management strengthens the specialty occupation argument USCIS evaluates during adjudication.
Search LCA filing history by job title
Use Migrate Mate to find employers with verified LCA filings specifically for program management leadership roles. Targeting companies with active filing history cuts your search to employers already familiar with the sponsorship process for this title.
Benchmark your compensation against OFLC prevailing wage levels
VP-level program management roles often land at Wage Level III or IV in the OFLC Wage Search. Confirm the prevailing wage for your metro area before negotiations so your offered salary clears DOL certification requirements without triggering an LCA audit.
Document portfolio-level scope in your resume
USCIS scrutinizes whether a VP of Program Management role genuinely requires a specialized degree. Resumes that quantify cross-functional program complexity, budget authority, and strategic deliverables make the specialty occupation case more defensible than titles alone.
Clarify PERM eligibility early for green card planning
VP roles that include policy-setting or hiring authority can complicate PERM labor certification, since DOL requires employers to prove no qualified U.S. workers were available. Raise this with the employer's immigration counsel before accepting an offer to avoid delays.
Confirm TN eligibility if you hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship
TN status covers Management Consultants under USMCA, but Vice President of Program Management doesn't appear on the TN profession list. Verify the specific job duties map to a listed category before pursuing TN, or default to H-1B sponsorship instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Vice President of Program Management role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. For VP of Program Management, degrees in engineering, computer science, business administration, or operations management typically satisfy this standard. Roles with purely general management duties and no technical degree requirement face higher risk of a Request for Evidence from USCIS.
Which visa types are realistic for a Vice President of Program Management seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path, covering specialty occupation roles and allowing dual intent for green card pursuit. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews every two years. Canadian and Mexican nationals should verify whether their specific duties fit a USMCA-listed TN visa profession before assuming TN eligibility, as VP of Program Management is not explicitly listed.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring VP of Program Management roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified sponsorship history for program management leadership roles, searchable by city and seniority level. Targeting companies that have filed LCAs for this title previously means you're approaching employers who already understand the process, which shortens negotiation time and reduces the chance of a sponsorship-related withdrawal late in hiring.
Does seniority at the VP level affect the green card process differently than individual contributor roles?
Yes. VP-level roles that include supervisory or policy-setting authority can complicate PERM labor certification because DOL scrutinizes whether the job requirements are tailored to exclude qualified U.S. workers. Additionally, roles classified under EB-1C (multinational manager or executive) may allow bypassing PERM entirely if you've held a qualifying managerial role abroad with the same employer for at least one year.
What degree background does USCIS expect for a VP of Program Management petition?
USCIS looks for a bachelor's degree or higher in a field directly related to the role's core duties. Engineering, computer science, information systems, business administration, and project management degrees are most defensible. A degree in an unrelated field paired with years of experience may not satisfy the specialty occupation standard without additional documentation, such as a credential evaluation or expert opinion letter.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Vice President of Program Management 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.