Sr Principal Designer, Design Lead - Airway

* Participate in clinical immersion opportunities to observe product use, gather insights, and validate design assumptions.
* Engage with stakeholders—both decision-makers and end-users—to understand their perspectives and challenges.
* Analyze feedback from recent clinical observations and stakeholder interviews.
* Participate in a trio meeting with Product Owner and Technology Lead to refine product value propositions and roadmap priorities.
* Review ongoing product design projects and align with product designers on implementation details.
* Lead brainstorming sessions with the product team to address emerging user needs and market trends.
* Collaborate with marketing to ensure design vision & design strategy aligns with the respective AC&M market strategy.
* Mentor junior designers and facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.
* Review regulatory compliance documentation and ensure all design outputs meet required standards.
* Summarize user research, identify innovation opportunities, update the research database, and prepare action plans for cross-functional meetings.
* Work with Product Designers to ensure design implementation aligns with product strategy and customer needs.
* Facilitate regular team activities such as journey mapping, insight distillation, persona creation, brainstorming, needs formation, and design sessions to foster creativity and innovation.
* Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, building strong relationships with healthcare professionals and facilities.
* Is an advocate for the user during technology, engineering or cost trade-off to ensure the resolution has the maximum opportunity to delight the customer
* Is a leader in creating and maintaining a culture of customer centricity
* Integrate external trends, human insight, technology, and business acumen to define user value and shape impactful innovation directions.
* Lead the development of intuitive electromechanical products that address unmet clinical needs while providing superior user experience.
* Leads the development of user experiences that reduce workflow and cognitive burden, enabling clinicals to focus on clinical practice and their patients.
* Conduct global user studies, observations, and inquiries to identify opportunities rooted in user needs.
* Drive initiatives such as user research databases to inform design decisions.
* Contribute to patent development and innovative solutions for new product features.
* Is seasoned at the development cycle of insights to needs, need to user requirements and the work needed to validate them
** 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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week:
Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:
Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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