Senior Art Director

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 Senior Art Director who can bring visual, design, and experiential acumen to Intuitive’s brand and key experiences. 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 Senior Art Director you’ll create experience across all major media, content, channels, and experiences including product initiatives, campaigns, social, video, and events. This is a highly collaborative role that requires working closely with the creative leadership as well as writers, producers, product teams, and business unit marketers to craft compelling methods to bring our products, core values, and customer stories to life.

Our ideal candidate? A motivated self-starter who can iterate quickly, work artfully within a set system, knows how and when to flex the system, and advocates for compelling and inspired solutions. Design and production. Print, digital, and motion. This role requires the ability to work from conceptualization to completion and the flexibility of working in-house and with external agencies.

What You'll Do:

• Approach problems holistically. Be an influential creative leader that helps your cross-functional peers define and envision creative opportunities.

• Iterate. Iterate. Iterate. The ability to translate a brief into multiple creative solutions embracing quick and collaborative ideation and out of the box thinking.

• Socialize new insights and ideas with a strong design rationale, grounded in business goals. Your leadership will invite the team to act to ensure better customer and business outcomes.

• Embrace systems thinking. Know how to create dynamic work within a framework and skillfully evolve the framework to meet product, channel, and regional needs.

• Collaborate with other designers and writers as well as media production, project management, account team, brand, and product strategists to create thoughtful and strategic solutions that evolve our company’s brand’s presence.

• Think strategically and understand all aspects of communication channels including web, event, social, print, and video with the ability to create mood boards, and storyboards to communicate intent.

• Execute designs from conception to final hand-off and/or digital production teams.

• Proactively communicate project status across teams, clients, and departments.

Skills, Experience, Education, and Training:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in graphic design and related work experience

• 9+ years of design experience, preferably within the tech space at an agency or in-house brand team

• Proven track record of creating world-class, breakthrough work with strong visual storytelling that emotionally connects with audiences

• Experience in creating engaging end-to-end campaigns across multiple mediums and channels including print, motion and video, social, digital experiences, and physical spaces

• A deep understanding of the telling stories across social channels, and the ability to recognize emergent opportunities.

• Experience thinking globally, bringing ideas to other regions, and an informed appreciation for different region challenges and opportunities.

• Highly productive and resourceful with the ability to execute on multiple projects and demonstrate a clear understanding of how to prioritize work based on business needs and timelines

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholders and incorporate feedback in an efficient manner that drives the team’s strategic process and final product forward

• A motivated and driven self-starter who takes ownership of their work and can operate within ambiguity

• Optimism for great work and possibility, a love for the next big challenge, and a passion for making an impact

• A portfolio demonstrating diversity of ideas, problem-solving, and proven expertise in visual design skills including typography, color theory, and composition

• Expert level experience working in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects a plus)

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.

Accommodation & Accessibility Notice:

Intuitive is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or an accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact People Services at [email protected].

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.