Posted:
10/10/2025, 7:48:01 AM
Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ Los Angeles, California, United States
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher
Field(s):
Product
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.
As a part of the Product Management team, you can expect to help the business in the following ways:
Create synergies across functions and regions through end-to-end product lifecycle management.
Leverage Voice of Customer (VOX) (how is that gathered) insights, competitive intelligence, and market feedback to shape product strategies.
Develop a UX Design Vision, ensuring customer experience metrics align with business goals.
Lead product portfolio strategy, including prioritization, globalization, and product rationalization efforts.
Collaborate on training, product trade-offs, packaging, and growth optimization strategies to drive product success.
Monitor product performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and manage obsolescence.
This is more than a leadership role — it's an opportunity to define and drive the product strategy that aligns with Medtronic’s mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for innovation, a deep understanding of technical and business dynamics, and a proven track record of leading high-performing teams, this is your chance to make a difference.
Key Responsibilities
As the VP of Product Management, you will:
Shape the Vision: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to align with company objectives and market opportunities.
Champion Customer-Centricity: Incorporate VOC insights and data into product decisions to meet customer expectations and market demands.
Drive Portfolio Excellence: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to retirement, ensuring alignment with business goals. Support portfolio management by aligning product scope changes with broader system impacts and business growth goals.
Drive Innovation and Growth: Identify and implement innovative solutions that differentiate Medtronic in the market and deliver meaningful impact to patients and stakeholders. Lead trade-off decisions and go-to-market strategies to ensure portfolio success.
Foster Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams, including Program Management, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Sales, and Customer Support, to drive seamless execution.
Lead and Develop Teams: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing product management team to deliver exceptional results.
Must-Have Qualifications
To thrive in this role, you will need:
A bachelor’s degree with at least 15 years of experience in Product Management and/or Product Design, including a minimum of 10 years in managerial roles. Alternatively, an advanced degree with at least 13 years of relevant experience and 10+ years of managerial experience.
Experience working collaboratively with engineering, research, design, and marketing teams.
Preferred Qualifications
A track record of building and executing winning product strategies.
To be willing to learn and understand the needs of people living with diabetes and the providers who serve them.
Advanced management and leadership expertise to lead cross-functional teams and drive results across multiple functions.
A strong technical aptitude to identify risks, understand technical trade-offs, and make informed decisions.
Business acumen to manage product P&L, understand business cases, and balance trade-offs effectively.
Proven experience in commercial customer marketing, with a track record of close collaboration and interaction with customers.
A strategic mindset with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans.
Exceptional communication skills to effectively articulate product strategies and updates to stakeholders.
A collaborative leadership style that fosters teamwork and drives alignment across diverse teams.
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 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. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Website: https://www.medtronic.com/
Headquarter Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Employee Count: 1001-5000
Year Founded: 1979
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Health Care ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Medical Device