We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 27 Feb 2026

 

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.

This is an onsite role located at our Lafayette, Colorado office.

Functional Excellence:

• Manage a team who is accountable for ensuring the product delivers optimal value through its lifecycle by making informed tradeoffs, prioritizing features
• You and your team are responsible for refining the value proposition of a product
• Advocating for user-centric design principles and best practices within the organization.
• Manage a team creating user personas, conduct user research, and gather feedback throughout the design process.
• Manage a team who are responsible for synthesizing Voice of Customer and Experience inputs to understand and prioritize user needs, pain points and clinical workflow
• Advocate for the customer in the creation of the product scope, requirements and functionality

Talent Development:

• Develop Systems & Design 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
   

Strategic Planning:

• Understand the R&D future portfolio and align talent to achieve goals. 
• Advocates for 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 function over a 3-5 year time horizon. 

About you

• Experience implementing human-centered design principles and familiarity with formative and summative assessment
• Curious mindset
• Passionate about delivering products that delight our customers
• Excited about design lead products and solutions
• Focus on the customer and how the proposed solution exceeds expectations
• Put the patient and customer first in making decisions

Travel Requirements 

• Travel as needed, approximately 10%. 

 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline. 

• 7+ years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience. 

 

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. Reasonabl