Senior Engineering Program Manager - Quality Core Team Member - CRDN

About the role

Medtronic’s Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) Operating Unit is seeking a high-impact Quality Core Team Member (QCTM) to join the Renal Denervation (RDN) team and help shape the future of this transformative therapy. This role will provide Quality leadership for the next-generation RDN platform, one of ICT's highest-priority innovation programs, working at the center of strategy, product development, and execution. The successful candidate will influence critical business and technical decisions, partner across functions, and drive the delivery of innovative therapies that improve patient outcomes worldwide.

This position is on-site 4 days per week at the Mounds View, MN campus as the Quality lead on a cross-functional new product development team within the Coronary & Renal Denervation (CRDN) operating unit. This role requires less than 10% travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality strategy for a high-priority new product development program, translating PDP milestones into an actionable plan that proactively manages timelines, dependencies, technical risks, and resource needs.
• Serve as the Quality voice on the Core Team, partnering across Systems, Software, Hardware, Mechanical Engineering, Clinical, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to shape strategies that advance quality, compliance, patient safety, and customer impact.
• Drive key Quality-owned technical deliverables that support product development, including Risk Management, Design Verification, and Design Transfer, while ensuring strong alignment across engineering, regulatory, and manufacturing partners.
• Use program metrics and risk indicators to monitor Quality performance, communicate progress, and drive timely mitigation plans with Quality and program leadership.
• Influence cross-functional execution by clearly communicating priorities, progress, risks, and key decisions to technical teams, Quality leaders, and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and a minimum of 7 years of technical work experience; or an advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math with 5 years of technical experience.

Skills

• Product development and program delivery: Demonstrated ability to lead Quality planning and execution within large, complex PDP programs, translating technical milestones into clear priorities, integrated workstreams, risk-based decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Capital equipment and systems expertise: Strong understanding of complex system-level product development, including the integration of software, hardware, mechanical design, and clinical or user needs in a regulated medical device environment.
• Cross-functional leadership: Ability to lead through influence across engineering, quality, regulatory, clinical, manufacturing, and supply chain partners, building alignment and driving decisions in a matrixed, global environment.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional product development initiatives from strategy through execution, with the ability to drive alignment, manage risks, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience influencing and collaborating across geographically distributed teams, with the ability to build strong partnerships across functions, sites, and leadership levels.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments and supporting new product development in alignment with global quality system and regulatory expectations.
• Proven ability to lead resolution of high-risk Quality issues by bringing together technical experts, assessing patient and business impact, driving disciplined root cause analysis, and executing effective risk-based mitigation plans.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations—but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

For office roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.

U.S. work authorization is required for roles below the Principal level; sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above.

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. The following benefits are available to regular employees who work 20+ hours per week:

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account and Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance and Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans (including the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP))
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Paid time off and Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• 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.

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S. locations (excluding Puerto Rico): $171,200.00 - $256,800.00. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location.