Structural heart device manufacturer serving 100+ countries
Edwards Lifesciences manufactures and distributes medical devices for structural heart disease across 100+ countries, with a public-company footprint (10,000+ employees). The tech stack—Salesforce, SAP, Coopa, Anaplan, Qlik layered over AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure—reflects a large-scale regulated manufacturer balancing CRM, supply-chain visibility, and financial planning. Active hiring spans healthcare (242 roles), sales (131), and engineering (114), with accelerating velocity and notable openings in manufacturing and market-access leadership; the pain-point list (regulatory audit compliance, material compliance, manufacturing process optimization) aligns with hiring pattern and project focus on TAVI program optimization and clinical protocol development.
Notable leadership hires: Director Engineering, Director, Manufacturing, Market Access Director, Business Unit Director, Manufacturing Director
Edwards Lifesciences is a public medical-device manufacturer headquartered in Irvine, California, founded in 1958. The company specializes in structural heart technologies—primarily heart valves and transcatheter therapies—and serves hospitals and healthcare systems globally. Operations span R&D, clinical affairs, regulatory, manufacturing, quality engineering, sales, and marketing, with employees in 23+ countries. The business is shaped by regulatory compliance requirements, clinical evidence generation (active clinical investigations and protocol development), and manufacturing scale (evidenced by dedicated manufacturing hiring and process-optimization projects).
Salesforce, SAP, Coupa, Anaplan, Qlik for business operations; AWS, Azure, GCP for cloud infrastructure; Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform for engineering; now actively adopting GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio.
Active hiring in 23 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, China, Japan, India, Brazil, Mexico, and others across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.
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