[Hiring] Design Leader, Polyphonic AI Lab @Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Role Description

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

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

Qualifications

• 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).
• 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

Requirements

• This is a remote role available in multiple states within the United States.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Participation in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Eligibility for the Company’s long-term incentive program.
• 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