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

Our purpose at Medtronic Acute Care & Monitoring (ACM) is to enable patient safety from hospital to home. Serving 115M+ patients every year, our vision is to personalize care, anytime anywhere. Working with a team that delivers best-in-class airway management & physiologic sensing, simple & integrated data automation, and new clinical insights, you can deliver meaningful value to patients and healthcare providers globally.

What does it take to be a leader at Medtronic? We look for inspiring and inclusive leaders who partner with others, knowing that diverse talent, skills, and perspectives lead to better outcomes. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result — and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

The Senior Director, Airway Management R&D serves to provide the product vision, leadership, and managerial oversight to define and drive airway management technology and product development within ACM.  This is inclusive of our McGRATH MAC™ video laryngoscopes, Shiley™ endotracheal tubes and tracheostomies, and DAR™ breathing circuits and filters.

This leader is accountable for the discovery, development, and sustaining of all airway management products and solutions.  With primary focus on problem-solution fit, this role ensures all product development meets the needs of patients, providers and the business from discovery through sustaining. This role will leverage extensive hands-on experience in new product development to form and grow a highly proficient and collaborative team.

The Senior Director, Airway Management R&D reports to the Vice President, ACM R&D and is a key member of the ACM R&D Leadership Team.  The Airway Management R&D team is a newly formed organization intended to provide product leadership across a united Airway Management product portfolio and is an exciting opportunity to shape the organization and provide substantial value and impact.

Responsibilities include:

• Functional leadership of the Airway Management R&D team ensuring on-time and on-budget technology and product development.

• Staffing and people leadership of the Airway Management R&D team ensuring consistent capability, capacity, and growth of the team and their domain expertise

• Product leadership for the Airway Management portfolio, working globally across commercial, technical, and regulatory functions to ensure a comprehensive understanding of customer/patient/technology/business needs.   Clearly translates those needs into impactful products and solutions.

• Design and development leadership of new products and solutions from concept through commercialization.  Ensures problem-solution fit.

• Member of the R&D leadership team collaborating to drive a product leadership culture across ACM.

• Spokesperson for Airway Management products.

• Travel requirements: 20%

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline

• Minimum of 15 years of engineering experience with 10+ years of managerial experience, or Advanced Degree with a minimum 13 years of engineering experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience

• Mastery of the product development process and design controls

• Demonstrated technology and product development leadership and interdepartmental collaboration

Nice to Have

• Expertise in Airway Management technology and product development

• Expertise in new product introduction and in-market product support

• Passion for delivering best-in-class products to market that exceed customer expectations

• 5+ yrs experience in a regulated field such as medical device or aerospace/defense

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 en