Category Archives: Medical Device

How to Build a Diverse Leadership Bench in MedTech

Diverse Medical Team

This reflects what we have learned at JRG Partners doing exactly this kind of work, the distinctions that matter and the mistakes that recur. Building a diverse leadership bench in medical devices is a long-horizon effort, because the executive pool reflects the composition of […]

Should You Work with a Retained Search Firm as a Candidate?

Recruiter Talking To Candidate

This reflects what we see from the recruiter’s side of the table, which is a useful vantage point when you are planning your own next move. Candidates often misunderstand what a retained search firm is and what it can do for them, which leads either to unrealistic expectations […]

Why MedTech Companies Need Specialized Executive Recruiters

Medical Device Executives

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. MedTech companies that use generalist recruiters for executive searches often struggle, because the sector’s regulatory, clinical, and technical […]

Interviewing Medical Device Executives: Key Questions to Ask

Medical Device Leadership

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Interviewing a medical device executive well means testing judgment in the situations that actually determine device company outcomes: regulatory strategy […]

How to Evaluate a Job Offer from a Medical Device Startup

Startup Leadership Meeting

Drawing on the searches we run, this lays out what actually separates the candidates who get these roles from those who do not. Evaluating an offer from a device startup means assessing the company’s survival and success odds as carefully as the compensation, because in this […]

Hiring a Chief Commercial Officer for a Medical Device Company

Medical Technology Leadership

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Hiring a Chief Commercial Officer for a medical device company is distinctive, because commercializing regulated medical devices, through complex sales […]

Onboarding Best Practices for New MedTech C-Suite Hires

Corporate Healthcare Meeting

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Onboarding a new MedTech executive is not a matter of orientation sessions and introductions, because the things a device company leader must absorb, the […]

Relocating for a MedTech Executive Role: What to Consider

Executive With Luggage

At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Relocating for a device executive role deserves more analysis than the compensation adjustment, because MedTech clusters differently from other […]

How to Recruit Top Talent in a Competitive MedTech Market

MedTech Executive Hiring

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Recruiting top MedTech talent is harder than in many sectors, because the pool of leaders who combine regulatory fluency, clinical understanding, and […]

Hiring a Chief Compliance Officer for Medical Device Firms

Medical Technology Executive 1

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. A Chief Compliance Officer in a medical device company oversees an unusually broad risk surface: healthcare fraud and abuse laws, interactions with […]