Associate Engineering Manager, Product Safety

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.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.