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** Careers that Change Lives The Medtronic Diabetes Business is one of the most exciting, dynamic and challenging spaces in medical devices. More than 463 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes and this is expected to reach close to 600 million in 10 years. The diabetes device industry is unique in that technologies available to monitor and manage diabetes are starting to converge with consumer electronics technology. As such, the decision dynamics are evolving; patients have a stronger voice in therapy choice, care is transitioning away from specialists, and the role of artificial intelligence is elevating care. We look for leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers. As a Principal R&D Product Lead, you will help guide the direction for new product features and enhancements through a human-centered design approach in the Customer Centered Design team at Medtronic Diabetes. You will use your strategic, creative, and technical expertise to lead the planning of deep and meaningful product experiences that impact our customers, our business, and our technologies. You will seek to understand the customer personas, their key use cases, and maintain focus on the key feature differentiators that will satisfy and delight the customer. These product solutions are designed for patients, HCPs and caregivers. This role will work closely with the Voice of Customer team, User Experience Designers and Researchers, Software Developers, Systems Engineers, Human Factors Engineers, Business Analysts, Marketing, and other core team members to incorporate human-centered product and service design thinking and innovation. You will support bridging new technologies with customer needs in our product development process and activities from early ideation all the way through transition to development. The role will collaborate with the core teams on high impact initiatives to create innovative health care solutions that address the core needs of all our customers and users. You will help drive design sprints through a human-centered design process, guiding sprint teams to frame design challenges, collaborate on ideas, develop prototypes and test them. The output of your work will provide a fluid transfer into development by building clarity of the higher level purpose and vision of the potential value in commercialization. The Diabetes Operating Unit seeks candidates who will exceed our customers’ expectations by striving without reserve for the greatest possible user experience, best in class reliability and quality, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and taking action. This individual contributor role reports into the Director of Customer Centered Design. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. + Lead the creation and proposal of products that meet customer and business needs, align with UX strategy, and are technically feasible + Gain empathy for the customer experience to inform direction of the Customer Centered Design team for your product group + Participate in business decisions discussions and implement strategic goals from leadership across the product winning concepts and designs + Gain an understanding of the business needs and long-term objectives for the proposed solutions + Partner with teams across the organization to ensure existing knowledge and platforms are leveraged + Lead and conduct initial exploration processes to determine how to satisfy customer needs and how people experience health care through elegant designs + Utilize Human-centered design, Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) and similar processes to collect opportunity data, lead analysis and guide the overall strategy for your product group + Lead the planning of product testing and discovery activities such as concept generation workshops, UX research, co-creation working sessions, and feedback panels + Partner with SME for product ideation to determine best use cases for concept testing + Seek to understand the feature desirability + Contribute to research and discussion guides + Responsibilities may include other duties as assigned **Must Have:** **Minimum** **Requirements** + Bachelors degree required + Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience **Nice to Have** + Hands-on experience as a Product Manager / R&D Product Lead in Medical Device or Healthcare companies + Have a clear understanding of User Experience Design & Strategy + Able to work effectively with all levels of the organization + Strong negotiation, conflict management, and influence management skills + Communicate clearly, in written, verbal and visual forms, being equally facile with technical and nontechnical team members + Ability to quickly understand and become proficient in domain knowledge + Experience conducting user testing / user research + Working knowledge of diabetes therapy, clinical data, business plans and competitive products **Physical Job Requirements** The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.  The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. **Benefits & Compensation** **Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package** A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$142,400.00 - $213,600.00 This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others). Medtronic benefits and compensation plans (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page\_name=signon&co\_num=30601&co\_affid=medtronic) **About Medtronic** We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com) . It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. 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From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. **We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. **We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. **This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… + **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world + **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities + **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: **Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. **Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. **Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. **Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. 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