R&D Transducers Leader

2 Months ago • 15 Years + • Research Development • $218,025 PA - $290,700 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As the R&D Transducers Leader, you will lead cross-functional teams, driving product implementation and integrating emerging technologies. This role involves aligning technical strategy with business goals, fostering innovation, and managing teams across multiple global sites. Responsibilities include developing strategies for ultrasound transducers, leading innovation efforts, ensuring resource availability, optimizing development processes, and managing departmental costs. The role also includes overseeing development execution and driving continuous improvement in engineering processes.
Must have:
  • 15+ years of relevant experience (Leadership + Technical).
  • 5+ years managing large globally distributed teams.
  • Experience in development leadership for classified medical devices.
Perks:
  • Comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program.
  • Generous PTO.
  • 401k (up to 7% match).

Job Details

Job Title

R&D Transducers Leader

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of technology and drive transformative innovation? As our R&D Transducers Leader, you will be at the forefront of research and development, leading cross-functional teams to turn visionary ideas into impactful products. This pivotal role blends strategic foresight with hands-on leadership—driving product implementation, integrating emerging technologies, and ensuring excellence across the product lifecycle. You’ll foster a culture of innovation, guide high-performing teams, and align technical strategy with long-term business goals. If you’re passionate about building the future, influencing industry trends, and developing world-class talent, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and create lasting value.

Your role:

  • Develops and drives the long-term vision and strategy for innovation and development of Ultrasound Transducers to maximize business value.
  • Aligns strategic direction with evolving customer needs and market trends, fostering cross-organizational innovation.
  • Leads internal innovation efforts across 4 global sites and manages external partnership strategy to support growth.
  • Builds and sustains departmental capabilities, ensuring the development of key competencies and technological expertise.
  • Ensures availability of critical resources, tools, and infrastructure to support emerging technologies and long-term innovation goals.
  • Optimizes technological competencies and product development processes to align with market dynamics and organizational strategy.
  • Improves key operational processes and manages departmental costs in line with budgetary constraints.
  • Oversees development execution to ensure high-quality output that meets innovation partner expectations.
  • Provides leadership to the development department, ensuring effective project delivery, performance, and cost management.
  • Accountable for operational plan execution, guiding Project Managers and Leaders in resource allocation and project management best practices.
  • Leads succession planning and talent management, including recruitment, performance evaluation, compensation planning, and career development.
  • Drives continuous improvement in transducer engineering development processes to ensure efficiency and quality excellence.
  • Champions the adoption of best practices from internal business units and external industry benchmarks.

You're the right fit if:

  • Minimum of 15 years of relevant (Leadership + Technical) experience, including minimum five (5) or more years’ experience in systems, device, or transducer development within the health technology industry
  • Minimum 5+ years managing large globally distributed teams (60+ FTEs) up to and including director level reports, with direct line management and budget accountability > 30M. 
  • Demonstrated experience in development leadership for classified medical devices, specifically hardware or piezoelectric components.  
  • Proven ability to lead, plan and execute multiple large-scale, long-duration engineering & development  projects with successful outcomes.
  • Strong leadership with ability to demonstrate impact to business in prior roles, including evidence of continuous improvement, building high-performing teams and developing talent.
  • Ability to lead and collaborate within complex, matrix business environment with demonstrated track-record of successful outcomes when working with cross-functional / multi-national / multi-cultural teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver continuous short term business results (in a complex and constrained environment) combined with creating and implementing a competitive long-term strategy 
  • You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position

How we work together:

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office-based role in our Reedsville, PA office.

About Philips:

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

Philips Transparency Details:

The pay range for this position in PA is $218,025 to $290,700

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.   

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information:

  • US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.

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At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters.

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