Sr. Global Upstream Product Manager – Visualase (Onsite in Minneapolis, MN)

About this role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Sep 2026   Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.                      At Medtronic Neuroscience, we bring innovation, expertise, and purpose together to improve care for people living with neurological, spinal, and chronic pain conditions. Our technologies help restore function, improve quality of life, and support better outcomes for patients around the world.

Neuromodulation is focused on helping patients find relief and regain control through innovative therapies for chronic pain and neurological conditions. Our technologies support clinicians in delivering personalized care that can improve daily life for patients. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Brain Modulation and Pain Interventions

This role supports long-range product planning for the Visualase franchise by shaping roadmap inputs, product enhancements, lifecycle planning, and future platform opportunities. You will gather customer, market, and competitive insights; engage healthcare professionals and field partners to identify unmet needs and workflow challenges; and partner with cross-functional teams to translate those insights into product requirements, business cases, and roadmap recommendations.

This is an opportunity to work on a differentiated neurosurgical platform with meaningful clinical impact and visible growth potential. We are looking for an analytical, customer-focused marketer who can translate clinical insights, market trends, and business priorities into clear product strategy and actionable recommendations. In this role, you will help influence the future direction of Visualase by connecting customer needs, clinical workflows, competitive dynamics, and technology opportunities to strategic product decisions. You will work closely with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Medical Education, downstream marketing, regional teams, and physician customers to support franchise growth and bring forward solutions that better serve patients and care teams. If you are energized by customer discovery, strategic problem solving, and advancing innovation in a highly collaborative medical technology environment, this role offers the chance to make a direct impact on an important growth franchise. • Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Support upstream strategy and product planning for the Visualase franchise, including roadmap planning, product enhancements, and future growth opportunities.

• Lead or support voice-of-customer activities, including physician interviews, advisory boards, surveys, field feedback, and customer journey mapping.

• Translate customer and market insights into unmet needs, product requirements, value propositions, and roadmap recommendations.

• Conduct market, competitive, clinical, and technology assessments to inform franchise strategy and investment priorities.

• Partner with R&D and cross-functional teams to support feasibility discussions, trade-off decisions, design inputs, and development priorities.

• Support business case development, forecasting inputs, product prioritization, and portfolio recommendations for future Visualase investments.

• Develop clear, executive-ready communications that summarize insights, decisions, risks, and next steps.

• Collaborate with downstream marketing, regional teams, Clinical, Regulatory, Medical Education, and field partners to align upstream planning with customer and business needs.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements • Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have • MBA, advanced degree, or formal training in marketing, strategy, engineering, clinical research, or healthcare innovation

• Experience in upstream marketing, product planning, product development, innovation strategy, or portfolio strategy

• Experience in medical device, healthcare, neurosurgery, neuromodulation, oncology, epilepsy, imaging, or capital equipment markets

• Experience conducting voice-of-customer research, market research, competitive analysis, or customer segmentation

• Experience translating customer needs into product requirements, business cases, value propositions, or roadmap recommendations

• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and leadership-ready materials

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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 d

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