Lead the creation of connected medical technologies that make a real difference by translating user, clinical, and business needs into scalable, robust, and regulatory‑compliant systems.
Drive end-to-end innovation, co‑own the product roadmap, and bring together people, capabilities, and ideas to deliver meaningful impact in healthcare.
How you make an impact
You are responsible for defining, designing, and delivering complete solution architectures, not just individual products. You lead the end-to-end system design, ensuring that hardware, software, connectivity, and data layers work together as a cohesive, scalable solution.
Translate clinical, user and business needs into reference architecture, standards and design frameworks. With a strong system engineering background you are able to converting complex inputs into engineering solutions, like medical devices and its platforms, connectivity modules and data capabilities.
Define the Product Roadmap as technical co-owner in collaboration with Marketing , ensuring alignment with market needs, product requirements, and Medela’s innovation strategy.
Drive the innovation strategy in connected and data-driven solutions. You lead the transition from standalone devices to connected, intelligent systems including data-enabled insights, digital services and integration into broader care or user ecosystems.
Build and orchestrate key capabilities across internal teams and external partners, ensuring the right expertise, technologies, and collaborations are in place to deliver next-generation solutions.
Location
This is a Baar-based hybrid role, with several in-office days each week to enable rapid collaboration
What you bring along
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software Engineering, or related field.
Minimum of 10 years in Product and Project Management and 3–5 years of leadership experience in a highly regulated industry, preferably medical devices.
Proficiency in English, German is a plus, solid knowledge of quality management systems and regulations, as well as organizational or process design expertise.
Strong leadership skills, ability to collaborate across functions, capability to translate business/customer needs into engineering actions.
Accountable, results-driven, and resilient mindset.
Why join
At Medela, you will be joining a global community of colleagues, united by the purpose that drives our business: helping people. Medela exists to advance human health and wellbeing through knowledge-based and innovative human milk and medical vacuum solutions.
Our employees are empowered to serve this purpose in a family-owned company that is growing rapidly around the world. We value intensive exchanges, diverse perspectives, and unbureaucratic decisions. You will have the opportunity to develop at an international level, and witness the direct impact your work has on our company’s success.
If you are interested in this opportunity, we are looking forward to receiving your application.
Due to work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from Swiss Nationals, UK, EU citizens as well as relevant work-permit holders for Switzerland.
For this recruitment we will not consider any applications sent through by agencies.
