We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Sep 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

The Senior Technical Writer will lead, author and edit highly regulated technical content/literature on the Medtronic Diabetes Technical Communication team. The writer will manage a portfolio of writing projects incorporating best practices in technical writing, procedure development, and program management. The writer will have a proven ability to research, organize and develop content in a systematic manner by working closely with R&D, Regulatory, Human Factors, Education and Marketing teams. The technical literature produced by this role will reach and facilitate the use of the company’s products for patients, clinicians, trainers and marketing and technical support team members.

Transforming diabetes care together, for greater freedom and better health.

Our strategy is to become a holistic diabetes management company focused on making a real difference in outcomes and cost. We want to transform healthcare toward value-based models by driving both product and business model innovation with the goal of elevating patient experience, improving clinical outcomes and lowering the total cost of care for our customers.

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Visit www.medtronicdiabetes.com to see an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

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

• Leads, defines, authors and edits technical content/literature in a CMS environment based on product specifications, interviewing subject matter experts, investigating prototype hardware and software, and observing actual use situations. 

• Researches and translates technical information into manuals and/or web-based documents for nontechnical and technical users. 

• Recommends formats responsive to technical and customer requirements. 

• Produces products that conform to the company documentation and quality assurance standards 

• Performs peer editing duties to ensure that material is clear, accurate and consistent. Ensures that literature meets regulatory, quality, marketing, branding and geographical requirements. 

• Leads discussions, manages content review boards sessions and ensures team comments are incorporated. 

• Collaborates with team members on developing and maintaining procedures and work instructions, templates and style guides based on industry standards. 

• Represents Technical Communications interests and requirements to ensure highest quality work is delivered. 

• Defines deliverable content and collaborate with translation organizations. 

• Proactively develops solutions to complex issues. 

• Mentor junior technical writers, including in-house and outsourced team members, on best practices in technical writing as well as Diabetes specific technical writing guidelines and work instructions 

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.