Product Development Team Lead

We’re looking for an experienced medical device product development engineer with exceptional project leadership, client management, and team coordination skills to join our talented team.

In this role, you’ll act as the primary point of contact for the client—responsible for nurturing the client relationship, managing the project, leading the multidisciplinary development team, and ensuring the technical success of every deliverable. You’ll operate much like a fractional CTO for your clients, guiding them through the entire journey from concept to manufacturing launch with clarity, confidence, and care.

You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment where complex medical, life science, and diagnostic products are designed, engineered, and transferred into production with quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction always top of mind.

Inertia is a Toronto-based product innovation and manufacturing partner accelerating the development of next‑generation medical and diagnostic devices.

We work with ambitious startups and scaleups to turn bold ideas into market‑ready products—guiding them from concept and prototype through regulatory approval, manufacturing launch, and production scale. Our fully integrated model unites strategy, engineering, and manufacturing under one roof—eliminating silo and helping clients move faster and smarter.

With deep expertise in regulatory strategy, human factors, engineering design, design for manufacturing (DFM), and production, we make the complex simple, enabling innovators to bring life‑changing technologies to market with speed and confidence.

What Makes Inertia Different

At Inertia, we don’t just build products—we build momentum.

• Exceptional Client Trust: Our clients consistently rate us above NPS 80, recognizing the precision, transparency, and results we deliver.

• Lean, High‑Performance Teams: We eliminate unnecessary layers of management bloat and empower our project leads to make decisions, move fast, and own outcomes.

• End‑to‑End Impact: You’ll see your work move from concept to launch, with tangible results that change lives.

• Culture of Growth: Our multidisciplinary team thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning—pushing boundaries in engineering, design, and manufacturing every day.

For more information on Inertia please visit our soon‑to‑be updated website here: www.inertiapd.com.

Role Responsibilities

As a Product Development Team Lead reporting to the VP Product Development, you will:

• Profitably lead multiple simultaneous projects and/or large complex multi‑disciplinary projects with the equivalent of >3 FTE contributors and/or external partners and consulting or product sales of >$500k per year.

• Lead the creation, planning, and reporting of project scope, timelines, financial management, and performance.

• Lead client meetings and all client communications including non‑technical aspects such as billing, expenses, etc.

• Lead projects through at least 2 of 3 Product Strategy, Product Development, and Product Manufacturing domains.

• Actively plan & consider how their project resourcing needs impact Inertia & the Inertia team, by seeking out additional (internal or external) resources when required and/or communicating when resources need to redeploy to other projects.

• Work closely with the Managers, Directors, or VPs in the creation of new project work orders, resources plans, pricing, and presentation to client.

• Manage the trade‑offs and relationships between technical, project, and human aspects of projects.

• Lead and manage your primary engineering discipline, with some ability in others.

• Have and deploy a broad spectrum of knowledge to leverage many different types of resources, understand the dependencies/interactions between the mand and know when to ask for help.

• Manage direct report performance and coach team members to help achieve Inertia’s and their own goals.

• Coach team members in a supportive, challenging, and inspiring team environment.

• Actively participate and engage with external partners, industry groups, and organizations.

• Develop and encourage strong peer relationships across disciplines, teams, and geographies.

• Use and promote Inertia’s Quality Management System to guide daily work.

• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.

• Actively support and promote workplace health, safety, and wellness.

• Perform other relevant duties as may be assigned.

Who we are looking for

You have:

• A university degree i