Associate Engineering Manager, Product Safety

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

As a Product Safety Engineering Manager, you lead and develop a team of product safety engineers supporting both new product development and post-market activities. Reporting into senior engineering leadership, you set strategic direction for the product safety function while ensuring regulatory compliance, high-quality execution, and predictable product launches. You partner closely with R&D and Product Engineering teams to embed safety and compliance into design, development, and sustainment activities. This role balances people leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and technical oversight to drive business and compliance outcomes.

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This role is hybrid with 4+ days a week on-site in Portage, MI.

What you will do:

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of product safety engineers by setting clear direction, coaching performance, and fostering an engaged, inclusive team culture that delivers consistent, high-quality results.
• Partner with R&D and Product Engineering leaders on workforce and resource planning to meet current and future business needs.
• Champion product safety across the product lifecycle, ensuring requirements are understood, integrated, and executed effectively from concept through commercialization and post-market support.
• Drive accountability for successful product certifications, on-time launches, and adherence to quality and regulatory expectations.
• Enable clear, proactive communication across teams to identify risks early, resolve issues efficiently, and maintain project momentum.
• Oversee preparation for and participation in audits, serving as a product safety subject matter expert and primary interface with external certification and regulatory bodies.
• Guide cross-functional teams on compliance testing, design decisions, and sustainment activities related to product safety.
• Assess and manage business risk related to product safety, compliance strategy, process improvements, and technology initiatives.

What you need:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 6+ years experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop technical professionals while setting clear performance expectations in direct or indirect leadership positions.
• Strong knowledge of medical device (or other regulated industries) regulations and standards related to product safety, including FDA and international requirements.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.