WS Audiology

Formed in 2019, through the merger of Sivantos and Widex, WS Audiology combines over 140 years’ experience in pioneering the use of technology to help people with hearing loss hear the sounds that make life wonderful.

We are active in over 125 markets, and employ more than 11,000 people worldwide. Our broad portfolio of leading hearing related products and services generates annual revenues of more than € 2 billion. 

As a global leader, our ambition is to unlock human potential by making wonderful sound part of everyone’s life.

Learn about us on www.wsa.com and take a look at why you will love working here!

The Role

You are bored to do PowerPoint or Excel. You really want to do groundbreaking Innovation – Just join the Future Lab. 

As part of our team at Global Innovation within R&D, you are a keystone for driving innovation activities across the globe. To highlight some of these activities: we are orchestrating the innovation management, run multiple forefront projects, scouting for technologies & start-ups, as well as building an innovation culture within WS Audiology. The team works very closely with our global headquarters in both Singapore and Denmark. 

Your area of responsibility includes the following tasks: 

• Hands-on prototyping and development of proof of concepts for new ideas. If you like - make your hands dirty with App programming, rapid prototyping and new hearing aid demonstrators 
• Technology and start-up scouting 
• Global ideation campaigns 
• Technology benchmarking and competitor analysis 
• Support and learn how the innovation process works in a big corporate 
• Support for the administration and further development of our global innovation platform

Requirements

Are you the right talent? - The following profile corresponds to you: 

• Enrolled student (m/f/d) with a major in (industrial and electro-acoustic) engineering, innovation management, business administration or related courses 
• Knowledge of software programming skills such as Mobile app prototyping (iOS and/or Android) is an advantage 
• Knowledge of IFTTT (Smarthome) integration for services, apps and devices is an advantage 
• Knowledge of simple hardware skills such as hand soldering and electrotechnics is an advantage 
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office 
• Very good knowledge of spoken and written German and English

What we offer 

We are driven by innovation and development so working with us is a constant learning curve. You will be located in our site in Erlangen, Germany with dynamic and progressive colleagues, who are highly skilled and empathetic.  

 What working with us looks like: 

• flexible working hours including home office 
• attractive salary package 

Join WS Audiology

If this opportunity sounds interesting to you, please submit your application s and we will get back to you as soon as possible.