Employment

Want to join an innovative medical device company? Align Technology, Inc. is working to aggressively grow the company and we're looking for people who can help contribute in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Employees enjoy excellent benefits and a culture that emphasizes the value of our people.

Align Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire qualified applicants without regard to Race, Religion, Color, Sex, National Origin, Age, Handicap, Veteran Status, Gender, Sexual Orientation or any other category protected by state, federal or local law or ordinance

To apply for a position, please email your resume to jobs@aligntech.com.

Accounting & Finance

Requisition: 1915

This individual will be responsible for all aspects of managing and executing benefits in connection with the Company's equity compensation plans which include stock option, restricted stock unit and Employee Stock Purchase plans. Additionally, this position will be responsible for maintaining the stock administration database, stock based accounting, vendor management and employee support.
Duties & Responsibilities

Manage all aspects of the daily administration of the Company's stock option/restricted stock unit plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) transactions, including stock option grants, restricted stock unit (RSU) awards, option exercises, restricted stock vesting, semi-annual purchase of ESPP shares, terminations and cancellations and withholding tax calculations.
Prepare written consents and obtain approval by management and compensation committee for grants of stock options and RSUs for all new hires and special recommendations.
Prepare FAS123R assumption estimates and valuations of stock options, RSU’s and ESPP for review. And prepare the calculation of basic and dilutive shares for EPS purposes.
Respond to employee queries and provide employee education including ESPP open enrollment and presenting the equity benefits overview during new hire orientation.
Administer the Insider Trading Policy including educating insiders (all employees), notifying them of blackout periods and working with multiple brokers to ensure trading compliance.
Manage Section 16 compliance program by working with board members, officers and outside counsel to ensure accurate and timely filing of Forms 3, 4 and 5. Act as liaison between officers, employees and brokers in setting up and maintaining their 10b5-1 trading plans and transactions as needed.
Perform monthly account reconciliations for equity related accounts and provide reports to Accounting, Payroll and Tax or as requested.
Coordinate with payroll the reporting of stock compensation for W-2 purposes. Additionally, this position will coordinate reporting stock compensation to international subsidiaries.
Manage 3rd party outside vendor relationships including liaison with transfer agent to reconcile common stock outstanding and stock reserves, ensuring timely transfer of shares and resolving share discrepancies; handle inquiries from stockholders. Interact with multiple stockbrokers, the company's captive broker & software provider and outside legal counsel.
Maintain stock administration records working with E*Trade stock plan services to ensure the integrity of data in the Equity Edge Database.
Support internal business partners including in-house counsel, payroll, tax, accounting and HR. Additionally, support CFO and VP of HR with preparation of compensation committee meeting materials.
Provide required data to support external reporting requirements including the 10Q, 10K and Proxy Statement.
Maintain forecasting models for dilutive shares and stock based compensation.
Provide selected data for external and internal audits to ensure ongoing compliance; maintain Sarbanes-Oxley documentation to ensure controls are sufficient.

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree is required.
Demonstrate strong analytical, research, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
Solid customer service and organizational skills and the ability to multi task.
Proficiency with Excel.
CEP Level 3 or equivalent.
5+ years experience in Stock Administration.
Strong knowledge of Equity Edge 7.0 or higher, Microsoft Excel, and Word.
Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels (including Board of Directors and executives) and explain stock option, RSU and ESPP information.
Strong technical skills.

Finance

The job involves assisting with business process enhancements and system implementations.
Duties & Responsibilities

Collaboration with Finance/IT teams to address business needs
Documentation of business requirements
Data conversion validation
User testing - including documenting test scenarios.
Process documentation - including implementation issues, test validation of all requirements, workflows and user procedures.
Analysis - Check for data inconsistence from data conversion to determine data integrity, system issue or reporting issue.
Trouble shooting potential data mapping issues.
Working cross-functionally to meet project schedules

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

Technical Accounting
Revenue deferrals and recognition preferred
Key controls around financial cycles
Business process design and implementation
Understanding of GAAP
IT/Systems - system documentation and process flows
Minimum BS in Accounting/Finance and 3 - 5 years of accounting experience and 2 - 3 years of project experience

This person is the primary point of contact for financial support of the U.S. Sales and Marketing groups. They are responsible for building quarterly departmental budgets, managing spending to the budget, and explaining variances. Further, they play a critical role in driving business decisions by performing advanced-level analyses and modeling, preparing and interpreting metrics, identifying drivers of business opportunities and risks, making process improvements, and proposing solutions to financial issues. This person partners with the VPs of Sales and Marketing and their staff to provide financial guidance and assistance, and sound business advice.
Duties & Responsibilities

Performing Month End Close for Sales and Marketing Operating Expense Departments
Preparing Metrics on Sales Commissions and Performing Sensitivity Analysis
Discussing the Implications of Monthly Actual Spending Versus Forecast with Budget Owners
Driving Quarterly Forecast Cycles and Getting Inputs from Stakeholders to Build the Budget and Providing "What if" Scenarios
Providing Revised Estimate/Outlook of Current Quarter Spending Levels
Supporting the Project Management Process with Project Costing and ROI Analysis
Modeling Strategic Initiatives
Building Bottoms-Up Annual Operating Plan Budgets for Sales and Marketing
Performing Ad Hoc Analysis, Modeling, and/or Metrics for Business Partners
Delivering Presentations on Financial Concepts, Processes, and Proposals to Business Partners

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

Previous FP&A and Cross-Functional Business Partnership Experience
Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting
MBA Preferred, but not Required
5 to 7 Years of Professional Experience in a Finance or Accounting Role
Intermediate to Advanced Excel Skills
Strong Analytical Skills and Business Acumen
Familiarity with Hyperion Pillar a Plus

Integrated Technology Group

Requisition: 1779

The Senior EAI Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and support for all new and existing functionality of the EAI platform in conjunction with the team.
Duties & Responsibilities

Assist in gathering and documenting requirements from the business.
Conduct detailed design, development, and test reviews.
Analyze business and technical requirements.
Contribute to the evolution of the common framework architecture and high-level design.
Collaborate effectively with other teams (internal and external) in a very dynamic environment.
Assure the consistency across all project work products.
Identification prioritizations opportunities in area of improvements.
Engage and manage vendor technical delivery.

Education and Experience

A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Master’s degree is preferred.
6 or more years of industry experience.
2 or more years using TIBCO Integration products.
2-3 years of hands on Java/J2EE experience.
Hands on experience with Tibco development, SOA & EDA frameworks and architecture.
Well versed with TIBCO administration for build & deployment.
Installation and configuration of Tibco Business Works 5.x and higher versions.
Experience with Java and J2EE development is require.
Must have excellent database analytical skills and able to write complex SQL queries.
Experience with test driven development.
Interpreting business & functional requirements.
Must have a good verbal communication, negotiation, and facilitation skills.
Knowledge of HAWK is a plus.
Vendor technical management experience is a plus.
Experience working with off-shore team is a plus.

Requisition: 1787

We are hiring in the IT group at Align Technology and we need an experienced SQA Engineer to help mold the team and build a positive culture that ensured customer success. We have an opportunity to create a world class organization and are looking for people with the following characteristics:

A desire to improve quality
A willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
A stubborn devotion to being the best
A deep animosity toward mediocrity
Strong consulting, customer management skills or a desire to learn
Fanatical ability to deliver customer satisfaction

Daily duties include reviewing business and technical specifications to write and execute automated and manual test scripts for quality assurance testing. Frequent and effective communication with business and technical staff members will be essential. Developing, documenting, and maintaining automated and manual test scripts. Interacting with on-shore and off-shore development and quality assurance team members for defect resolution. Providing support for a variety of corporate business applications and web based products in a QA environment. Handle and support dynamic schedule, multiple environments, test cycles and deployments.
Duties & Responsibilities

Responsible for the design, development, and implementation of methods to test and troubleshoot newly developed or derivative software applications.
Design and architect modular ad reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy testing requirements.
Logging and tracking defects in defect tracking tool.
Collaborative with development team and project managers to ensure that defects are corrected in a timely manner.
Assist team with selection and configuration of appropriate test automation tools.
Develop functional/regression automated testing solutions using test automation tools.
Develop/enhance and document automated testing methodology.
Continually review and improve testing process and implementation.
Attend and participate in project-level reviews, walkthrough and inspection.
Work closely with Application Teams and Business Users to identify the coverage of test cases and ensure detail has been thought through.
Ability to configure systems, re-installation, windows maintenance, network configuration, debugging, monitoring of systems resources as needed.
Ensure the effective fulfillment of objectives and deadlines assigned to the group.
Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree is required.
ASQC certification preferred.
5 years of experience in application and systems level testing is required.
A proven track record in quality software delivery with a very strong technical background, the successful candidate will be extremely well read on all aspects of software quality assurance and development and must have a deep practical understanding of software development.
Experience of automating functional and regression and integration testing using industry standard tools and frameworks preferred.
A good understanding of Mercury or similar testing products (e.g. Quality Center, QTP, LoadRunner, Test Director).
Familiarity with feature-driven and test-driven test methodologies.
Familiarity with iterative software development life cycles.
Familiarity with breadth of test types including; Unit testing, feature testing, API/Web service testing, regression testing, performance testing, load and stress testing.
Experience and/or understanding of multi-platform environments (Linux, Windows).
Experience working with at least one of the major SQL database engines (Oracle, SQL Server).
Experience testing corporate business applications such as ERP, CRM, etc.

Marketing

Requisition: 1936

The position will be responsible for meeting and exceeding quarterly and yearly Clinical Education course recruitment goals, including new customer acquisition, and providing support tools and methods to recruit existing providers to segment-appropriate educational courses/programs. Creating a plan that includes identifying new and innovative opportunities to support the sales team in their recruitment efforts is critical in this role. Coordination with Professional Marketing, Sales, and outside vendors is required to ensure we achieve high visibility, promote education, and drive demand. Assist in the development and implementation of short and long term marketing strategy.

Duties & Responsibilities

Experience managing professional channel marketing campaigns, including direct marketing, trade advertising, and lead generation follow-through.
Must provide examples of proven methods to track and measure effectiveness of multiple marketing initiatives.
Previous experience in building and maintaining databases; researching new event opportunities, and anticipating market trends is crucial.
Knowledge of media planning, management of agency relationships and ability to work with third party organizations are also important.
Proactive with sharing and developing new ideas.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Must demonstrate creativity, strong cross-functional team management, leadership skills and taking initiative.
Results-oriented, self starter who needs minimal supervision.
Coordinates with key departments/project teams, team player.
Hands-on management and execution of online campaigns.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree required. MBA desired.
2 years of experience in lead generation and customer acquisition required.
Proficiency with MS Office suite including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint required. Familiarity with web applications and online recruitment platforms preferred.
Experience with online lead generation, web development.
Experience with HTML preferred.
Knowledge of CRM (Salesforce.com preferred).
Experience managing budgets and internal/external design groups to develop market-wide promotional materials and beneficial marketing tools to assist with brand promotion.
Solid understanding of strategic marketing and branding principles. Experience with Sales and Marketing promotions.
Experience working closely with internal organizations (Sales, Clinical Education) to identify external customer requirements.
Experience with medical device, pharmaceutical, or technology professional channels is a plus.

Requisition: 1930

The Trade Show Specialist (TSS) has overall responsibility for Align’s participation in approximately 15 small (10X10 and 20X30) dental industry trade shows per year. The TSS has full responsibility for his/her programs, including managing cross-functional planning team meetings, handling show placement, show services, booth shipping, registration, hotel, collateral, staffing, and all other associated logistics pieces. Show schedule is managed and budgeted by Senior Program Manager, the TSS implements the annual plan. In addition to these shows, the TSS will assist with our two large (50X50) shows each year as needed.

The successful candidate will be passionate about delivering world class service to every internal and external customer they encounter.

Duties & Responsibilities

Manage Align’s participation in approximately 15 shows per year: 10X10 and 20X30 booth properties.
On-site management of approximately 5 shows (20X30 only).
Booth and hotel space contracting.
Ordering and management of all booth services.
Shipment of all required materials.
Implementation of cross-functional team meetings and action items.
Registration, badge, room block, and welcome packet management.
Show budget management and reconciliation.
All internal trade show accounting and paperwork.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum one year experience supporting trade shows.
Ability to travel 15% of the time in U.S. and Canada.
The successful candidate will possess superior written, oral and inter-departmental communication skills, a desire to produce excellent work on a daily basis, and an eye for details. Responsiveness and dedication to the job are also critical. Additionally, the candidate should have:
- Proactive, not reactive, work style.
- Ability to self-manage and work independently, as well as in a team environment.
- Ability to react to challenges with grace under pressure.
- Strong customer service, reasoning and negotiating skills.
- Master of organization and details.
- Project and budget management skills.

Quality System

Requisition: 1844

The Quality Compliance Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Support the business by coordinating and conducting quality system regulation training and audits to ensure compliance with internal procedures and applicable regulations.
Duties & Responsibilities

Design, Coordinate, and conduct Quality Management System and Regulation training to all levels of the organization.
Assist in the implementation and management of Align’s Learning Management System (LMS). Assist departments in identifying training needs. Monitor compliance to company and department training requirements on a continual basis.
Plan, schedule, coordinate and conduct internal QSR/ISO audits of Align facilities worldwide.
Conduct supplier qualification and surveillance QMS audits.
Design, implement, and report process and compliance metrics.
Monitor and analysis quality and regulatory compliance data to drive continual improvement opportunities.
Provide support with external agency audits.
Assist in the identification, guidance and implementation of compliance and audit related corrective and preventive actions.
Effectively negotiate timely measures to ensure compliance and business results.
Perform other quality, compliance, and regulatory activities as assigned.

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with an emphasis in science, engineering, or business. A minimum of 4 years of experience with a medical device company is also required.
ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) or Biomedical Auditor (CBA) is preferred.
A minimum of 4 years experience in the interpretation, and application of the medical device QSR regulations and ISO 13485 in the medical device industry is required.
In depth knowledge of FDA regulations and ISO 13485 requirements.
Experience with coordinating department training and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Experience with conducting training classes to FDA and ISO requirements
Accredited Lead Auditor skills training is required; ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) or Biomedical Auditor (CBA) is preferred.
Strong facilitation skills and the ability to influence and interact at multiple levels of management are required.
Excellent oral and writing skills and ability to synthesize information to present internally as well as to regulatory agencies
Computer skills including Word and Excel.
Strong English oral and writing skills.

Research and Development

Requisition: 1897

The Program Manager, Special Projects is responsible for the planning, coordinating, and executing of development programs.
Duties & Responsibilities

Formulate effective development programs to support the company goals set by management.
FWith the guidance of the senior staff, develop and refine products and processes to be transferred to Pilot Production and/or Manufacturing.
FReduce concepts to functioning prototypes and test them.
FDocument and report project progress and results to management in written and/or oral forms.
FEstablish productive professional relationships with leading clinicians.
FMaster the use of the equipment and instruments necessary to perform job functions.
FCoordinate Interact with different functional departments within the company to acquire an in-depth understanding of the company’s business and operations.
FRemain current with technological developments in the company’s areas of business and the R&D Project Engineer’s field of expertise.
FEstablish sustained relationships with vendors.
FEnsures the effective fulfillment of objectives and deadlines assigned to the group.
FComply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
FParticipate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
FPerform other duties as assigned.
FFull supervisory duties for one or more engineers and technicians.

Education and Experience

BS or BA degree in engineering/science or a related field.
Applicable experience in an R&D environment and familiarity with the operations of common laboratory equipment and instruments.
Must be acquainted with data analysis and word processing software such as Excel and Word.

Sales

Building a small area to become a full TM market while selling Dental and Orthodontia equipments. Proactively communicate with customers and potential prospect to build customer basis and relationship. Maintain a personal level of product knowledge and competence in Dental and/or Orthodontia medical equipment.
Duties & Responsibilities

Manage territory base
Manager accounts in assigned territory
Report back to Regional Manager with all assigned reports

Candidate Requirements & Qualifications

Minimum 3 years medical sales experience
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Pride in excelling and self- directed individual
Computer knowledge is required
BS or BA preferred and/or equivalent experience