Sr Manager- Product Design

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 Nov 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.#
** A Day in the Life
** At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.  This role is an opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers and designers in the definition, integration, and validation of solutions that solve the unmet needs of airway management teams world-wide and ultimately improve patient outcomes.  

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.
This position is responsible for developing systems for healthcare workers, specifically related to airway management in acute care settings such as Operation Room, Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department. You will be at the junction of user experience and systems engineering, applying deep technical expertise to realize challenging design goals.
The candidate will be responsible for leading a team of systems engineers and designers in the definition, development, and support of complex medical device systems used to support airway management and intubation.

Location:

Lafayette, CO - On Site
** Functional Excellence:
*** Drive functional strategy to advance Systems & Design Engineering through process, functional best practices, and organizational changes.
* Lead, direct and review the work of individual contributors on the Systems & Design Engineering team to ensure adherence to functional excellence expectations.
* Identify, develop, and/or execute training to improve product, technology and clinical subject matter expertise within the group.
* Lead cross-functional teams to make appropriate, timely decisions and recommendations that result in the successful completion of major organizational objectives
* Experience implementing human-centered design principles and familiarity with formative and summative assessments
** Talent Development:
*** Provide direct management and mentorship for the Systems & Design team to achieve organizational goals.
* Develop Systems & Design Engineering talent to be effective leaders, including how to best approach technical problem solving, best utilize soft skills, how best to communicate to peers and leaders, etc.
* Provide targeted opportunities to develop and stretch team members’ knowledge and capabilities.
* Recruit individuals whose skills will allow us to deliver products that meaningfully impact patient care
** Program Execution:
*** Communicate with functional partners to plan, evaluate, and develop technical solutions.
* Ensure programs have robust technical solutions and risk burndown plans.
* Lead multiple design activities in the product development life cycle including identification, planning, monitoring and executing tasks for entire project
* Understanding of medical product development and medical device requirements and regulations and standards and provide a voice of authority in ambiguous terrain
* Work with functional managers and individual contributors to overcome challenges/obstacles.
* Support key efforts if major technical challenges are identified
** Strategic Planning:
*** Understand the R&D future portfolio and align talent to achieve goals.
* Advocates for new systems model-based tools, processes, and practices, and otherwise ways of doing product development that make work more efficient and effective. An “outside the box” thinker.
* Identify long-term opportunities that will continue to advance the systems & design engineering function over a 3-5 year time horizon.
* Partner in assessing viability and technical risks of specific technologies being considered.
* Assess long-term opportunities with other companies or academic efforts
** Travel Requirements:
*** Travel as needed,…