Category Archives: Medical Device

Preparing for Interviews at Top MedTech Companies

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At JRG Partners we sit on the other side of these searches every day, so this reflects what we actually see working for candidates. Interviews at strong MedTech companies test something different from general executive interviews: whether you understand how regulatory, clinical, […]

LinkedIn Profile Tips for Medical Device Executives

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Drawing on the searches we run, this lays out what actually separates the candidates who get these roles from those who do not. For device executives, a LinkedIn profile functions mainly as a verification and search tool: recruiters use it to find you and to check whether your […]

Hiring for Combination Products: Devices Meet Pharma

Medical Device Engineer

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. Combination products, where a device and a drug or biologic come together in a single therapy, create a hiring problem that neither pure device nor pure […]

Career Paths from Engineer to Medical Device Executive

Medical Device Executive

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. Engineers are well positioned to reach device company leadership, because technical credibility matters enormously in this industry, but […]

How to Handle a Counteroffer in Medical Device Recruiting

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Having placed executives into these roles repeatedly, we wrote this to tell you what genuinely matters, not the generic career advice you have already read. Counteroffers are common when a device company loses a senior person it cannot easily replace, and they are harder to […]

What to Look for in a Head of Quality Systems (MedTech)

Medical Device Quality Control

Drawing on our executive search practice, we put this together to give employers a grounded, practical view they can act on. The Head of Quality Systems is the leader most directly responsible for whether a medical device company stays in good standing with regulators, and the […]

How to Transition from Pharma to Medical Devices Leadership

Life Sciences Leadership

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. Moving from pharmaceutical leadership into medical devices is a genuinely achievable transition, but it is not the lateral step it often […]

Understanding Non-Competes in the Medical Device Industry

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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. Non-compete and related restrictive agreements are common in medical devices, where companies protect product knowledge, customer […]

Recruiting Executives for Surgical Robotics Companies

Surgical Robotics

Having placed leaders into roles like this repeatedly, we wrote this to give a practitioner’s view rather than generic advice. Surgical robotics companies need leaders who can hold together an unusually wide set of demands: sophisticated engineering, rigorous clinical evidence, […]

Networking Strategies for MedTech Professionals

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Drawing on the searches we run, this lays out what actually separates the candidates who get these roles from those who do not. Networking in MedTech works differently from generic career networking, because the industry is small, technically specialized, and reputation travels […]