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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, Gender, Veteran Status, Sexual Orientation or any other category protected by state, federal or local law or ordinance

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Integrated Technology Group

The billing lead is responsible for owning the billing system within the enterprise system landscape. The billing lead is mostly a technical role with a large amount of communication, leadership and business understanding required. The lead will understand the capabilities and limitations of the billing tool and be able to communicate these to various business and technical groups within the enterprise. The lead will resolve functional and technical issues while working in a cross-functional environment with ERP, manufacturing and front-end teams. The lead will understand projects on full system scale and lead a development team to accomplish project goals. The lead will participate in establishing and evolving the enterprise system architecture with other system owners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Serve as a technical leader for the billing software group in designing and implementing business solutions.
Create solutions in a billing tool and related to other business and manufacturing systems involving full project lifecycle engagement from
business problem and scope definition to full requirements, design, build, test and support.
Take input with incomplete and ambiguous information from business users and drive to full requirements and solution.
Participate in planning and development of the enterprise architecture
Document requirements, designs and completed system changes
Lead requirements gathering sessions with business and technical users
Conduct design and code reviews of others' work
Understand accounting and finance business needs and how they will affect the business systems
Handle multiple concurrent efforts through multi-tasking and prioritization.
Communicate solutions including presenting technical ideas and solutions to non-technical audiences.
Work within the team and be customer service oriented
Provide direction to others working on the billing system and other related business systems.
Modify billing system data model as required

Additional Responsibilities

Assist testing of billing related systems

Education and/or Experience

7-10 years experience in software development
Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
Experience with a packaged billing system such as Kenan, Portal, Intec, etc.
Team player working to improve team and individual skills for the company
Communications skills with the ability to interact with business and technical users
Experience with business systems especially ERP
Knowledge and experience with SOA and integrating a package software using SOA

Knowledge of accounting principles in relation to billing and invoicing.

Systems Business Analyst
The Systems Business Analyst will provide leadership to achieve a successful end-to-end user experience for a set of projects to be delivered concurrently. The BA works closely with user representatives (Finance, Marketing, Manufacturing, etc.) and the software development teams (Application Development, IT, Architecture) during the Requirements and Planning, Design, Development, and Verification / Validation phases of a project. The BA must develop expertise with end-to-end business processes (customer and internal), software applications and structure. The role will involve understanding, structuring, detailing, and validating the requirements to ensure a suitable end-to-end solution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Facilitate requirements meetings to understand and collect product, business and technical needs
Configure, document and test finance and distribution modules in the ERP software
Resolve ambiguities and conflicting business and technical requirements to build consensus, and drive to an agreed upon solution
Proactively identify issues concerning technical limitations and key product requirements
Document the set of requirements, allocation to applications, application communication protocol, and use cases
Create and manage the documentation matrix and schedule for program delivery.
Follow Align Technology, Inc development processes. Assure adherence by documentation team to processes (e.g. timely ECO), and regulatory requirements.
Lead work with user representatives to validate the user experience has been captured / defined appropriately
Work closely with Development to assure that Designs and developed applications adequately reflect requirements – bringing in user representatives as appropriate – making revisions to software requirements as appropriate
Work closely with SQA to assure that functional and performance test cases adequately reflect requirements – bringing in user representatives as appropriate
Lead user application and end-to-end user validation and documentation prior to release
Develop schedules for completion of responsibilities, manage deliverables, and provide status updates

Additional responsibilities: As Assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Exceptional communication skills, and ability to work cross-functionally with a divergent group of people and functions to drive to a timely solution
Extensive experience with ERP finance and distribution modules
Extensive experience configuring and preparing solutions in JD Edwards ERP software
Strong presentation and documentation skills - proficient in PowerPoint, Visio,
Word and Excel
Strong organization and project management skills
Strong business process design skills and exception identification and management skills
Ability to manage requirement risk
Ability to prioritize the divergent set of tasks required in the role
Self-motivated, self-starter willing to work through barriers and strive for continuous improvement

Education and/or Experience

10+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, software development, or project management
3+ years of relevant experience in requirements analysis
Experience using structured software life cycle & development methodologies, (RUP, RM-ODP, RAD, etc.), as well as rapid prototyping.
Accounting or finance background preferred
Experience performing business analysis, software design and project management
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree – Required
Software Development, Technical Writing or Engineering Degree preferred

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

There are no specific physical demands required for this position.
Align Technology is an exciting, medical devices and e-business company with a highly sought after and proprietary product. The atmosphere is casual and the company is extremely employee oriented with stock-purchase & other competitive compensation plans. There are abundant professional growth opportunities for qualified individuals.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

There are no specific physical demands required for this position.
Align Technology is an exciting, medical devices and e-business company with a highly sought after and proprietary product. The atmosphere is casual and the company is extremely employee oriented with stock-purchase & other competitive compensation plans. There are abundant professional growth opportunities for qualified individuals.

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours

Marketing

Marketing Manager - Lead Generation and Acquisition Programs
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 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.

Essential Duties and 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/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree required. MBA desired.
3 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 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.

Product Manager – Global Product Innovation
This position has direct ownership for the design and development of key elements of Align Technology’s product portfolio, and leads customer-driven product development efforts in both product and software. Candidate will be responsible for transforming marketing or business requirements into impactful product features and services, and overseeing and managing the development and delivery into the marketplace. In-market feature performance, post-launch improvements, future product enhancements and new product ideation are also areas of focus for this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Transform marketing requirements into viable and impactful products and/or product features that meet specific customer needs. Work with cross-functional teams on creating detailed product requirements and use cases, as well as user experience requirements to ensure customer needs are met. Understand cost and timing impacts.
Create (when necessary) and own business requirements documents that outline key product improvements or changes.
Work closely with cross functional teams within the organization – including R&D, IT, clinical, and manufacturing to drive product requirements through design, development, testing and launch. Validate that the product going to market is meeting the requirements and is expected to achieve the anticipated impact.
Develop a deep understanding of our customers (Dentists and Orthodontists) through primary and secondary research, market visits and close sales relationships. Incorporate this understanding into product requirements that are consistent with the long term customer experience vision.
Validate and improve upon product requirements through user experience reviews, user acceptance testing, and pilot management as appropriate. Work closely with cross functional teams and marketing partners on the commercialization of product launches.
Work with Professional Education, clinical, legal/regulatory, customer marketing, customer care, and sales teams to deliver best-in-class product improvement launches.
For assigned products: monitor on-going health, adoption metrics, and feature usage; collect internal and external feedback; investigate, prioritize, and implement improvements and enhancements to maintain and/or increase benefits of product; work with international counterparts to determine international product development / release plans; determine version or product phase-out plans as appropriate

Additional responsibilities: As Assigned

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

BS or BA required, MBA a plus.
A minimum of 5-7 years working in product development organizations, with demonstrated successful launches.
Proven track record of setting product development targets and delivering results a must.
Experience in medical device or dental product development preferred.
Self-starter, work in a fast pace environment with the ability to manage and deliver multiple projects.
Excellent communication and organization skills
Ability to work well in team (marketing and cross-functional) environment
Strong project management skills

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

There are no specific physical demands required for this position.
Align Technology is an exciting, medical devices and e-business company with a highly sought after and proprietary product. The atmosphere is casual and the company is extremely employee oriented with stock-purchase & other competitive compensation plans. There are abundant professional growth opportunities for qualified individuals.

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours

Operations

Senior Manager – Purchasing
The Purchasing Manager is vital to the success of Align Technology's ability to meet/exceed internal customer goals/objectives, driving its capabilities forward by effectively managing the whole planning process for the organization. This position is focused on continuous improvement and the ability to transform the function into one that is considered to be world-class in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Provides overall category leadership from a transactional persepctive through solid procurement efforts and timely materials management of critical materials, services and components throughout the supply chain.
Ensure that all procurements are made, managed, documented and administered in compliance with departmental, company and government policies, regulations, codes of ethics, statutory requirements and objectives.
Demonstrates experience in fostering relationships with key suppliers in an increasingly global network; demonstrates broad knowledge of the Purchasing function and its capability to support business objectives; manages inventory levels and turns, develops performance metrics.
Coaches, trains, mentors and sets goals for process/performance improvement.
Provide a proven track record in dealing with cost management, quality & delivery issues. Works with Category Managers and Supplier Development Manager to support supplier development activity and its impact on Align performance.
Counsels and direct subordinate Buyers and employees in outsourcing opportunity, analysis and implementation for materials and services in support of management initiatives.
Develops/implements key considerations in developing a response to supplier capacity & capability issues.
Manages transactional supply chain staff (Sr. Buyers(s), Buyer I, Buyer II, Assistant Buyer).

Additional responsibilities: As Assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

Quick comprehension of changing environments and good personal interactive communications skills; decision making and root cause analysis.
High energy to motivate and lead direct reports and co-workers to work toward common corporate goals and objectives.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; Engineering or Business degree preferred.
8+ years’ experience in the procurement function; 5+ years’ managerial experience required with evidence of leadership and decision making skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to handle objects and tools; reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move light to moderate weight. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level and temperature in the work environment is usually moderate.

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours

Senior Manager – Strategic Sourcing
Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing will act as the overall owner of the sourcing program for all Align Technology sourcing activities. He/she will lead the operations, make operational decisions and manage performance of the overall team. Attending day to day operational issues, managing internal client relationships, acting as the liaison (i.e. point of escalation) with the internal client are among the responsibilities of the Director of Strategic Sourcing. As the Director of Strategic Sourcing, he/she will be expected to use discretion in applying best practices and procedures to resolve issues, demonstrate a broad and thorough understanding and application of technical and/or specialized concepts and knowledge in business and strategic sourcing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Develops and executes organization-wide procurement, strategic sourcing and supply base management strategies. Championing and gaining alignment with corporate and business unit management around the vision of cross-functional business unit collaboration.
Development of Align's commodity risk management policies and procedures; oversees compliance and timely execution.
Development and implementation of policies, procedures and best practices in relation to sourcing, vendor contract negotiations, standardization of contract terms and conditions, together with administration and oversight of existing contracts and agreements.
Leads the development of supplier relationships to ensure continuous improvement in innovation, quality, service and cost reduction.
Achieves targeted cost reduction results through leadership in strategic sourcing, supplier integration, continuous improvement and innovation/technology. Sets category level goals for all categories within a portfolio.
Communicates and works effectively with management at all levels within the company and its supply base.
Leading the development and administration of a purchasing consortium of internal businesses for the purpose of controlling/lowering procurement expense. This will include the use of reverse auction techniques and other cutting edge e-business concepts/strategies.
Develop the sourcing team to add value as they become high impact leaders; provide clear sense of purpose and direction; mentor, coach and develop direct reports by ensuring clear direction through formal job descriptions and regular performance reviews.Ensure that all procurements are made, managed, documented and administered in compliance with departmental, company and government policies, regulations, codes of ethics, statutory requirements and objectives.

Additional responsibilities: As Assigned

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in business, finance accounting or a related field preferred; advanced degree in Business Administration is a plus.
Minimum of 8+ years previous work experience in procurement/sourcing related field.
Previous experience in leading cross functional teams.
Knowledge of local, state, federal/national laws regarding procurement.
Minimum of 6-8 years of managerial experience.
International experience and low-cost country (LCC) sourcing is a plus.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to handle objects and tools; reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move light to moderate weight. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level and temperature in the work environment is usually moderate.

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours

Research & Development

Sr. R&D Engineer
A crucial member of the R&D Biomechanical Engineering team, the Senior R&D Engineer conducts independent research of dental product performance, develops product prototypes, conducts both benchtop and computer simulation studies of product performance, and is responsible for data interpretation and study protocol documentation. The Senior Engineer identifies areas for product improvement and initiates feasibility studies. The successful candidate is a creative and innovative thinker, motivated by curiosity with a proven record of accomplishments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:

Ensure that all procurements are made, managed, documented and administered in compliance with departmental, company and government policies, regulations, codes of ethics, statutory requirements and objectives.
Demonstrates experience in fostering relationships with key suppliers in an increasingly global network; demonstrates broad knowledge of the Purchasing function and its capability to support business objectives; manages inventory levels and turns, develops performance metrics.
Coaches, trains, mentors and sets goals for process/performance improvement.
Provide a proven track record in dealing with cost management, quality & delivery issues. Works with Category Managers and Supplier Development Manager to support supplier development activity and its impact on Align performance.
Counsels and direct subordinate Buyers and employees in outsourcing opportunity, analysis and implementation for materials and services in support of management initiatives.
Develops/implements key considerations in developing a response to supplier capacity & capability issues.
Manages transactional supply chain staff (Sr. Buyers(s), Buyer I, Buyer II, Assistant Buyer).
Work in a fast paced environment and meet critical deadlines.

QUALIFICATIONS

Excellent laboratory skills.
Team player, strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Excellent problem solving skills, thoroughness, attention to detail.
Ability to work in a fast paced environment and meet critical deadlines.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

MS in Engineering required.
8+ years minimum experience in product or prototype development in the medical/dental field or equivalent.
3D modeling using SolidWorks or equivalent.
FEM modeling (ANSYS preferred).
Fundamental statistical analysis.
Knowledge of rapid prototyping processes preferred.
Clinical experience a plus.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to handle objects and tools; reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move light to moderate weight. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level and temperature in the work environment is usually moderate.

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours