Design Leader, Polyphonic AI Lab

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Experience Design

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Miami, Florida, United States of America, New City, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Design Leader, Polyphonic AI Lab. This is a fully remote role.Overview

Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Polyphonic team is shaping the future of digital surgery—building software products for hospitals, clinicians, researchers, and patients that deliver a connected peri-operative experience.

The Polyphonic team is recruiting for a Design Leader (Sr Manager) to define and design a next-generation surgical data & AI platform – Polyphonic AI Lab. This platform will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of multimodal surgical data and enable teams to develop, deploy, and scale ML/AI models in regulated healthcare environments.

In this role, you will champion human-centered design and lead the user experience and interface design of Polyphonic AI Lab. You will partner with product management to define the platform’s long-term product vision and roadmap. And you will partner with engineers, data scientists, clinicians, and external technology providers to drive the delivery and expansion of a scalable product and service ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Lead user and market research to uncover user needs, validate opportunities, and translate insights into new product ideas
• Build a cohesive and scalable user experience vision and roadmap for AI Lab in close collaboration with AI Lab’s product management and engineering teams
• Lead a team of strategists and product designers from research to ideation, prototyping, and production-ready designs across releases
• Define design principles and interaction patterns for emerging multimodal UX paradigms, including AI-assisted workflows
• Integrate with and contribute to our design system — components, patterns, and guidelines that are tailored to AI/ML tooling and can scale across AI Lab
• Build strong networks with subject matter experts and cross-functional teams to align on design priorities and accelerate learning and change management
• Ensure solutions are developed with a strong focus on quality, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI.
• Stay current on trends across AI, multimodal data platforms, computer vision, digital surgery, and sensor-enabled intelligence, and incorporate insights into the product design

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required) or Master’s degree (preferred) in Design or Design-related field.
• 8+ years of experience in product design and design management delivering platform solutions—ideally in healthcare, digital health, and/or AI-enabled product environments.
• High design craft and do-muscle with proven leadership of design teams delivering enterprise-scale digital products and platforms.
• Demonstrated teamwork and strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence across technical, clinical, business, and executive teams.
• Experience operating in regulated environments, with knowledge of quality, privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance expectations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable plans.
• Ability to travel up to 25% (U.S. and international).

Above all else

• Friendly, thoughtful and perpetually curious
• Humble to your core with a sharp emotional intelligence
• Able to build trust, even when communicating a dissenting point of view

This is a remote role available in multiple states within the United States. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Pay Transparency

The anticipated base pay range for this position (with the exception of the Bay area) is: 137,000- 235,700

The anticipated base pay range for the Bay Area is: 157,000- 271,400

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.

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member

Caregiver Leave – 10 days

Volunteer Leave – 4 days

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours 

Additional information can be found through the link below. 

https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

  

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Savvy, Commercial Awareness, Corporate Governance, Customer Centricity, Developing Others, Emerging Technologies, Forward Thinking, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Information Technology Project Management, Leadership, Software Development Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Management, User Interfaces (UI), Visual Communications