Human Factors Team Lead

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium's mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe Pulsed Field System – a revolutionary solution designed by our world-class technical team. The Globe System offers strong, unique, and customer-valued advantages over other treatments on the market, and leading physicians are already using it and helping to share our story.

We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients

In this role, you will be joining and leading the Human Factors team, and collaborate with colleagues in Systems Engineering, Clinical Engineering, UX, Risk Management, Regulatory Affairs, and design teams.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

As the Human Factors team lead, you will be leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and human factors specialists working across the mechanical, software, risk management, and regulatory domains. Your daily activities will center around leading and supporting the team to achieve project milestones.

Your Core Responsibilities Will Include

• Leading the human factors team to draft and ensure that deliverables required for regulatory submissions are completed on schedule.
• Collaborating with the UX team to collect and interpret user feedback through formative studies and incorporating the feedback to mitigate and document use-related risks.
• Managing summative validation studies for multiple user groups.
• Reviewing product change proposals, assessing their impact on use-related risks, and planning and executing appropriate updates to human factors testing and documentation.
• Ensuring appropriate HF team member involvement in early design and development activities such that validation activities are successful and efficient.
• Supporting growth and development of the team.

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people's lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect and we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable. You bring to the team these characteristics, plus:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in an applicable field
• Practical knowledge of medical device regulatory requirements and standards such as ISO 62366 and the FDA Guidance on Applying Human Factors and Usability Engineering to Medical Devices
• A minimum of five years' experience in medical device design and development, or another regulated industry
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including risk management, clinical engineering, regulatory affairs, and UX

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication and technical documentation skills
• Established track-record of successful team leadership; setting realistic and attainable goals, providing room for growth, and establishing a shared vision of team objectives
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• High degree of drive and motivation
• Willingness to travel occasionally

Compensation
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% RRSP contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium's stock option plan.

• $117,000 - $145,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being

The total cash we've listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

Career progression and learning support.

Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

• Our Purpose
• Our People
• Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we're committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more