User Experience Product Graphic Designer

Intuitive
Sunnyvale, CA

We are seeking a mid-level User Experience Product Graphic Designer  to join our multidisciplinary user experience design team. This role is ideal for a designer with 37 years of experience who is passionate about improving lives through thoughtful user-centered design.

As a Product Graphic Designer at Intuitive youll help shape the visual language of robotic-assisted surgery. Youll create elegant solutions to complex user challengestranslating technical requirements and ergonomic constraints into clear intuitive graphics that guide users through critical workflows. Your work will distill the most important information for visual clarity helping clinicians make fast confident decisions in high-stakes environments.

Youll contribute to elevating the brand across our entire ecosystem: robotic systems surgical instruments packaging and instructions for use. Every graphic you design will be part of a larger system that supports usability safety and trust. Youll collaborate with industrial designers engineers and clinical teams to ensure that every visual element is purposeful manufacturable and aligned with our mission to improve patient outcomes.

This is a role for designers who thrive on precision storytelling and impactwhere your craft directly contributes to healing and innovation.

Position Description

As a User Experience Product Graphic Designer you will be a key contributor to the User Experience Design team responsible for creating graphics that enhance the clarity usability and aesthetic quality of our robotic-assisted surgical systems. You will work across multiple product lines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that every graphic elementfrom instructional labels to interface visualssupports intuitive user interaction and meets regulatory and manufacturing requirements.

This role requires a designer who is both creative and technically adept capable of translating complex engineering and ergonomic requirements into elegant visual solutions. You will be expected to contribute projects independently contribute to design strategy and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced iterative environment.

Youll be joining a team that values curiosity collaboration and continuous learning. Your work will directly impact the experience of surgeons nurses and technicians around the world helping them perform life-changing procedures with confidence and precision.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to projects from concept through production ensuring design intent is maintained.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including industrial design mechanical engineering human factors product management labeling brand packaging and external vendors.
  • Interpret and iterate on feedback from design formative results and engineering partners.
  • Create compelling presentations and visual stories to communicate design intent.
  • Sketch ideate and visualize concepts using Adobe Creative Cloud tools (Photoshop Illustrator KeyShot) and prototyping.
  • Partner with industrial visual and graphic design teams to ensure cohesive design execution.
  • Translate technical and ergonomic requirements into elegant manufacturable solutions.
  • Contribute to multiple projects at various stages of development in a fast-paced environment.
  • Participate in user research usability testing and clinical research labs.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Graphic Design User Experience Design or a related field.
  • 37 years of experience in product development industrial design or medical device design.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating understanding of scale proportion color form typography and presentation.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud; ability to produce high-fidelity comps and visual assets.
  • Experience with 3D modeling software (for viewing parts and assemblies) is a plus.
  • Excellent storytelling and presentation skills with a user-centered design perspective.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across disciplines and deliver high-quality design outcomes.

Ideal Candidate Attributes

  • Passionate about designing meaningful impactful products.
  • Curious about user behavior and eager to learn through research and testing.
  • Thrives in collaborative environments and enjoys brainstorming and presenting ideas.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Organized reliable and committed to design excellence.
  • Refined aesthetic sensibility and artistic skill.
  • Experience with regulated products or medical device design is a plus.

*Please include your design portfolio as part of the application.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

U.S. Export Controls Disclaimer:  In accordance with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR 743.13(b)) some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.S. export controls for prospective employeeswho are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the governments licensing process can take 3 to 6 months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (TCP) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employeesstart date which may or may not be flexible and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Posted 2025-11-22

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