Biomedical engineering director vs design manager

The differences between biomedical engineering directors and design managers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes More than 10 years to become both a biomedical engineering director and a design manager. Additionally, a biomedical engineering director has an average salary of $188,298, which is higher than the $102,637 average annual salary of a design manager.

The top three skills for a biomedical engineering director include patient safety, biomedical equipment and AAMI. The most important skills for a design manager are sketch, project management, and visualization.

Biomedical engineering director vs design manager overview

	Biomedical Engineering Director	Design Manager
Yearly salary	$188,298	$102,637
Hourly rate	$90.53	$49.34
Growth rate	2%	2%
Number of jobs	61,350	61,273
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 45%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	48	48
Years of experience	-	-

Biomedical engineering director vs design manager salary

Biomedical engineering directors and design managers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Biomedical Engineering Director	Design Manager
Average salary	$188,298	$102,637
Salary range	Between $118,000 And $299,000	Between $69,000 And $150,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between biomedical engineering director and design manager education

There are a few differences between a biomedical engineering director and a design manager in terms of educational background:

	Biomedical Engineering Director	Design Manager
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 45%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Biomedical Engineering	Graphic Design
Most common college	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Biomedical engineering director vs design manager demographics

Here are the differences between biomedical engineering directors' and design managers' demographics:

	Biomedical Engineering Director	Design Manager
Average age	48	48
Gender ratio	Male, 90.6% Female, 9.4%	Male, 63.8% Female, 36.2%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 9.1% Asian, 11.7% White, 71.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.1% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 11.8% White, 71.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between biomedical engineering director and design manager duties and responsibilities

Biomedical engineering director example responsibilities.

Manage scheduling and implementation of technology for applications migrations to cloud, ensuring consistency adherence to university practices.
Coordinate services with OEM, and third party service providers.
Work with medical purchasing team to audit, review, and negotiate contracts with OEM andthird-party vendors.
Determine the current and future enterprise infrastructure which oversee the design and implementation of information systems that support the business requirements.
Experience in chip lab bring up, post-silicon debugging and product qualification and characterization.

Design manager example responsibilities.

Help achieve status of medical device manufacturer through the FDA.
Manage several consultants preparing contract documents on the various NYC let and NYS let projects.
Manage and collaborate with ASIC library/memory vendors.
Manage design, tooling, equipment implementations and process improvements for foundry/machining metalworking manufacturer of automotive OEM products.
Design blueprints, bills of materials, FEA as required.
Include producing FDA and ISO-9000 level documentation of the project.

Biomedical engineering director vs design manager skills

Common biomedical engineering director skills

Patient Safety, 13%
Biomedical Equipment, 10%
AAMI, 9%
Service Contracts, 8%
Safety Tests, 8%
Engineering Program, 7%

Common design manager skills

Sketch, 8%
Project Management, 8%
Visualization, 5%
User Experience, 4%
PowerPoint, 4%
Design Process, 4%

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