Design Control Process Manager

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what's possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

We are seeking a medical-device Design Control Process Manager who brings firsthand R&D (engineering) experience and can translate quality and regulatory requirements into clear, practical processes that engineers can follow. The ideal candidate will have experience creating SOPs, procedures, templates, and implementation plans, while building strong partnerships across R&D, Quality, and Regulatory. This individual should be an effective advocate for R&D, a credible educator, and a change leader who can increase design control fluency and drive consistent adoption across R&D and product-development teams.

Key Responsibilities

Design Control Process Management

• Develop, establish, implement, and continuously improve design control processes governing
• Ensure design control processes meet applicable FDA and ISO requirements and are appropriately integrated into product-development activities.
• Translate quality and regulatory requirements into clear, scalable, and executable procedures, tools, templates, and working practices.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of design control processes and recommend updates based on product-development needs, quality data, regulatory expectations, audit observations, and industry best practices.
• Create a scalable implementation plan for deployment of new and updated design control requirements across new product development, sustaining engineering, remediation, and product-change activities.

• Establish and maintain processes and SOPs that support complete, accurate, and audit-ready Design History Files from user needs through design validation.
• Partner with project teams to identify and resolve documentation, traceability, and design control gaps.

• Plan, implement, and manage quality assurance protocols and methods supporting medical-device design, development, transfer, and production readiness.
• Ensure processes align with applicable internal quality standards and external regulatory requirements for products intended for worldwide distribution.
• Review quality, development, and production information to identify trends, recurring issues, and opportunities to improve quality standards and procedures.
• Support compliance with applicable FDA requirements, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and other relevant product-development standards.
• Apply knowledge of 21 CFR Part 11, IEC 60601, IEC 62366, and IEC 62304, as applicable, to product-development projects and design control processes.

• Lead or facilitate product and design risk-management activities, including hazard analyses and Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses.
• Ensure risk-management activities are appropriately linked to design requirements, verification, validation, risk controls, and post-control risk evaluation.
• Partner with technical and quality teams to identify, document, evaluate, and mitigate product and process risks.
• Support alignment between design control and risk-management processes throughout the product lifecycle.

• Collaborate with Research and Development, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and other functional partners to ensure design control processes are compliant, practical, and executable.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and champion for design control and design assurance best practices.
• Influence cross-functional teams and drive consistent adherence to established design control processes.
• Facilitate alignment and resolution when quality, regulatory, technical, or operational requirements conflict.

• Education: BS in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Experience: 12+ years in medical device Quality Assurance or Design Assurance.
• Demonstrated knowledge of FDA 21 CFR 820, 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971. Apply knowledge of IEC 60601, IEC 62366, and IEC 62304 to product development projects.
• Tools: Experience with QMS software (e.g., MasterControl, Veeva Vault) and Document Control systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive adherence to design control processes.
• Strong track record of partnering across Quality, Regulatory, R&D and Manufacturing to embed design controls seamlessly into product development.
• Ability to serve as a trusted advisor and champion for design control best practices.
• Ability to travel US domestic and international as needed