[Remote] Device Expert Director, Technical Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. argenx is a biotech company transforming immunology and delivering medicines for autoimmune patients. The Device Expert Director will lead and coordinate combination product-related activities across functional teams, ensuring robust design and regulatory readiness of drug delivery systems.
Responsibilities
- Act as the central point of contact for combination product development across CMC, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical Supplies, and external partners
- Facilitate alignment of device strategy across multiple programs, ensuring consistency and scalability
- Lead regular device team meetings and ensure transparent communication of project status, risks, and milestones
- Oversee design, industrialization, and lifecycle management of combination products including prefilled syringes and auto-injectors
- Drive design control activities including design input/output, verification, validation, and risk management
- Coordinate formative and summative human factors studies in collaboration with internal teams and external providers
- Ensure integration of usability engineering into design and risk management processes
- Review and interpret human factors data to inform design decisions and regulatory submissions
- Contribute to regulatory submissions including authoring and reviewing device sections
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards (ISO 13485, ISO 14971, EU MDR, 21 CFR Part 820)
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with device manufacturers, usability consultants, and packaging suppliers
- Lead contracting and oversight of service providers for device-related activities
Skills
- Master degree and 15+ years of relevant experience
- Proven track record in medical device development, project management, and cross-functional leadership
- Deep understanding of human factors engineering and its application in combination product development
- Familiarity with global regulatory frameworks for medical devices and combination products
- Strong leadership
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to energize and align diverse teams
- Experience with autoinjector platforms (e.g., YpsoMate) is a plus
- 25% travel
Benefits
- Short-term and long-term incentive programs, subject to the terms and conditions of those plans and applicable policies
- A comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to retirement savings plans, health benefits and other benefits subject to the terms of the applicable plans and program guidelines
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