Design Leader, Polyphonic AI Lab

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Santa Clara, CA +13

Design Leader for a surgical data & AI platform (Polyphonic AI Lab) at Johnson & Johnson MedTech. This role will define and design the user experience and interface for a platform that manages multimodal surgical data and enables the development, deployment, and scaling of ML/AI models in regulated healthcare environments. The leader will partner with product management, engineers, data scientists, and clinicians to drive the platform's vision, roadmap, and delivery, focusing on human-centered design and integrating with a design system for AI/ML tooling.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead user and market research to uncover user needs, validate opportunities, and translate insights into new product ideas
  2. 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
  3. Lead a team of strategists and product designers from research to ideation, prototyping, and production-ready designs across releases
  4. Define design principles and interaction patterns for emerging multimodal UX paradigms, including AI-assisted workflows
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 8+ years of experience in product design and design management
  • delivering platform solutions
  • experience in healthcare, digital health, and/or AI-enabled product environments
  • High design craft
  • proven leadership of design teams
  • delivering enterprise-scale digital products and platforms
  • Demonstrated teamwork and strong cross-functional leadership
  • ability to influence across technical, clinical, business, and executive teams
  • Experience operating in regulated environments
  • knowledge of quality, privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance expectations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable plans

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Design or Design-related field

What the JD emphasized

  • define and design a next-generation surgical data & AI platform
  • 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
  • human-centered design
  • user experience and interface design
  • partner with engineers, data scientists, clinicians, and external technology providers
  • operating in regulated environments
  • AI/ML tooling

Other signals

  • AI platform for ML/AI model development
  • multimodal surgical data
  • regulated healthcare environments
  • AI-assisted workflows
  • AI/ML tooling