Sr. Director, Information Technology - CX CoE Lead

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite

Position summary:

• Leads the Customer Experience Center of Excellence (CX CoE), responsible for defining, measuring, and improving customer and employee experiences across Stryker’s digital ecosystem.
• Partners with business units, product teams, and IT leaders to embed CX principles into strategy, design, and delivery of technology solutions.
• Ensures Stryker delivers frictionless, human-centered digital experiences that drive adoption, satisfaction, and business outcomes.

Essential duties & responsibilities: (detailed description)

• CX Strategy & Vision: Define and maintain a CX strategy and roadmap aligned with enterprise digital priorities.
• Insights & Research: Lead qualitative and quantitative research, customer interviews, and journey mapping to identify pain points and opportunities.
• Measurement & Analytics: Establish CX measurement frameworks (NPS, CSAT, adoption metrics) and share actionable insights with stakeholders.
• Design & Standards: Lead creation of UX designs in partnership with key stakeholders, develop CX design systems, guidelines, and toolkits to ensure consistency, accessibility, and usability.
• Collaboration & Influence: Partner with product, engineering, innovation, and EA teams to co-design experiences that drive measurable impact.
• Training & Enablement: Build CX literacy across Stryker with playbooks, training, and a CX champion's network.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor experience trends, emerging tools, and benchmark Stryker’s CX maturity against industry standards.
• Governance: Chair CX governance forums and ensure feedback and metrics inform investment decisions.

  Education & special trainings:

• Bachelor’s degree in human centered Design, Business, Digital/IT, or related field (master’s
• preferred).
• Training in UX, Design Thinking, or Customer Experience Management certifications strongly preferred.
• Exposure to CX tools (Figma, Qualtrics, Medallia, Adobe Experience Cloud, etc.) desirable.

Qualifications & experience:

• 15+ years of professional experience, with at least 7–10 years in customer experience, design, or digital product roles.
• 5+ years in leadership roles managing CX/UX or digital design teams.
• Demonstrated ability to define CX strategy, implement measurement frameworks, and drive business adoption.
• Strong experience in workshop facilitation, journey mapping, and human-centered design.
• Proven success in influencing senior stakeholders and embedding CX practices at scale.
• Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, med-tech, pharma, life sciences) highly preferred.
• Familiarity with agile delivery models and product-centric organizations.

Physical & mental requirements:

• Strong communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to simplify complexity and translate data into clear actions.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, global, matrixed environment.
• Occasional travel required for research, workshops, and global stakeholder engagement.
• Must demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and customer-first mindset.

• $205,800 - $291,690 salary plus bonus eligible + generally eligible for short-term and long-term financial incentives + benefits.  Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
• Posted: November 17th, 2025

Travel Percentage: 30%

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.