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Senior Principal Legal Counsel - Digital Health

Medtronic
USA-MN, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Sept 2025
💰 $285,600/yr

About the role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Oct 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

We are seeking an exceptional transactional attorney with digital health technology experience to join our growing Medtronic US Commercial Legal Team. The team consists of seasoned legal professionals who work closely with the Medtronic Global Commercial Office and Medtronic Operating Units, including sales pricing and contract analysts, customer account managers, senior commercial leaders, and other functional experts to support commercial transactions for all of Medtronic’s medical technology products, services and solutions offered and sold in the United States.

This new role will lead critical and novel contracting strategies across Medtronic’s Cardiovascular, Neuroscience and Medical Surgical Portfolios to support commercialization of cutting-edge digital health solutions, complex surgical robotic platforms, smart medical devices, remote service systems and other data-enabled healthcare technology and service solutions for Medtronic’s diverse base of customers and strategic partners.

This is a high-impact role that requires a proactive, decisive, creative, and compliant solutions-oriented mindset to shape Medtronic’s commercial success in the dynamic digital health technology landscape.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts.

This position reports to the Legal Director, US Commercial Legal organization.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

  • Support the negotiation and drafting of complex commercial arrangements and strategic partnerships in the technology, digital health, and healthcare space.
  • Identify, assess, and communicate key contract risks, obligations, and practical mitigation strategies to internal stakeholders.
  • In partnership with other subject matter experts, support discussions and negotiations regarding customer implementation strategies, product functionality, data use, and access and security issues.
  • Collaborate closely with Medtronic’s various legal Centers of Expertise (COEs) and other legal and compliance professionals, as needed, to deliver the highest quality practical and strategic advice to sales, finance, and other stakeholders to close deals effectively and compliantly.
  • Advise on federal healthcare laws, antikickback, antitrust, False Claims Act, HIPAA, state data privacy and security laws, software licensing, FDA law, IP and other legal risk areas governing data-enabled healthcare technology and AI commercial transactions.
  • Develop, review, or implement company-wide and/or functionally specific training programs for the areas described above.
  • Monitor evolving regulatory standards impacting commercial transactions of data-enabled healthcare technology and AI commercial transactions.
  • Partner with other stakeholders to build efficient processes, including the creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, self-help workflows, and document management systems.

MUST HAVE: MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Juris Doctor from a nationally recognized US law school.
  • Licensed to practice law and in good standing under the Bar of at least one state in the United States or in Washington D.C.
  • 8+ years of legal experience to include 5+ years of legal experience both advising clients on the laws and regulations relevant to the sale and promotion of data-enabled healthcare technology products and services, as well as negotiating and drafting agreements governing the sale of these products and services.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience supporting Sales and Marketing, with a focus on digital health enabled medical devices and services.
  • Extensive experience negotiating and drafting technology licensing agreements, data use agreements, Business Associate Agreements, capital acquisition programs (sales, leasing, and financing), discount arrangements, partnership agreements, distribution agreements, group purchasing organization agreements, service and repair agreements, other.
  • Experience providing legal advice, support and business solutions for data protection, privacy, security or equivalent function for a large, regulated and matrixed organization.
  • Ability to identify high risk situations and provide appropriate guidance, including the ability to make courageous and unpopular decisions in a d

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