Senior Principal Specialist - Experiential Learning at Medtronic

Posted in General Business about 3 hours ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota





Job Description:

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

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations across a growing community of hands on and experiential learning spaces. Joining our team on the ground floor of an emerging strategy, you'' will innovate across a global range of programming modalities. You will be accountable for site data collection in partnership with an ecosystem of external Non-Profit organizations. Internally, you will work across functions to ensure a consistent and high-quality experience of volunteers and scholars. Externally, you will engage with relevant local trends and public policy activity for the purpose of innovating and problem-solving programming and engagement at local makerspace sites.

Preference for this role is working in a hybrid capacity (3 days in the office) at our operating headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Will consider remote for strong candidate.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.


  • Coordinates participation in community and charitable activities, philanthropy projects, and organizations.

  • Serves as company representative in interactions with not-for-profit organizations.

  • Maintains knowledge of compliance and regulatory issues and may interact with local governments.

  • Maintains oversight of makerspace site operations post-site launch.

  • Accountable for site design assessment, data collection, and planning.

  • Develop materials communicating programming progress to team and internal stakeholders including executive leadership.

  • Liaise with employee engagement team & Non-Profit partners to ensure consistent program delivery and high-quality scholar experience

  • Collaborates with Sr Manager to innovate and trouble shoot programming and strategic design

  • Maintains awareness and familiarity to relevant local trends & policy activity

  • Represent company in local STEM/STEAM and experiential learning ecosystem internally and externally

Qualifications | Must Have Minimum Requirements


  • Expertise in makerspace/experiential learning program design and delivery

  • Experience designing and implementing scholar-facing programming

  • Strong project management skills and experience

  • Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. • 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience.

Nice to Have:


  • Multilingual, Spanish Fluency

  • Familiarity with grantmaking and corporate giving programming and trends

  • Experience implemental global programing collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and beneficiaries

  • Experience recruiting in the Software Engineering & R&D function

  • Knowledge of education related regulations and policy environment

  • Exceptional skills in relationship management

  • Experience in project management, PMP preferred

  • Experience in creating and delivering curriculum

  • Experience in standing up newly created programming

  • Experience working for a Fortune 500 company

  • Experience across diverse scholar AND diverse employee engagement

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.

Benefits & Compensation

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$131,200.00 - $196,800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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 90,000+ 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.

At Medtronic, most positions are posted on our career site for 3-7 days.





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