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It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position:

We are looking for a Brand Designer who can help build and evolve Intuitive’s identity. This role sits within our Global Brand team—a multi-disciplinary group comprised of design, writing, strategy, media, production, social, account management, and project management. This highly collaborative team is responsible for crafting, evolving, and protecting Intuitive’s look and feel, and activating across products, business units, and global regions. The design team focuses on the creativity and quality of our visual storytelling, ensuring all brand and marketing touchpoints reinforce Intuitive’s brand value.
As a Brand Designer, you will contribute to the direction and execution of a variety of creative projects across marketing collateral, digital experiences, sales enablement, social media, video, and events. This is a collaborative role that will require you to work closely with other designers, writers, project managers and marketing leaders to create effective brand marketing projects and campaigns.

Our ideal candidate? A motivated self-starter who can collaborate with others. A designer who can take direction and iterate quickly. You are skilled at working within a set system but knows how and when to flex the system for more compelling and inspired solutions. You are a creative problem solver who can think strategically but also loves getting into the details to ensure final creative is fine-tuned and perfected down to the pixel.

What You'll Do:

• Artfully work within our brand expression system, including typography, layout, illustration, iconography, and motion systems, with a high level of craft, attention to detail, and consistency across all touchpoints.
• Develop, implement, and maintain clear, comprehensive, and actionable brand guidelines that ensure brand consistency, clarity, and effectiveness across all stakeholders and applications.
• Explore new visual directions and creative formats, pushing the boundaries of how we tell stories across all our channels.
• Create engaging, thumb stopping social activations aimed at both customers and patients.
• Concept and design storyboards and style frames for motion and video storytelling.
• Develop environmental graphics for large scale events that bring our brand and product stories to life.
• Develop a deep understanding of our products, and provide solutions that are functional, align with brand strategy, and bring delight to our key audiences.

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in graphic design and related work experience
• 5 years of design experience, preferably within the tech space at an agency or in-house brand team.

• Has an exceptional portfolio that demonstrates a solid understanding of scale, proportion, color, typography.
• Demonstrated ability to work within established visual guidelines and frameworks.
• Proven aptitude for quick creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
• Has established project performance, strong communication skills, proactively builds relationships and is beginning to demonstrate how to connect business objectives to project efforts.
• Optimism for great work and possibility, a love for the next big challenge, and a passion for making an impact.
• Intermediate to advanced level experience working in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. (After Effects a plus)
• Better than average knowledge of Microsoft Powerpoint.

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 employees who 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 government’s 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 employee’s start 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.

This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

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 base compensation ranges are listed.

Base Salary Range Region 1:$119,200 - $171,600
Base Salary Range Region 2: $101,300 - $145,900
Shift: Day
Workplace Type: Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.