Senior Principal Legal Counsel - Digital Health

Overview

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 Sep 2025.

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

We are seeking an exceptional transactional attorney with digital health technology experience to join our growing Medtronic US Commercial Legal Team. The team consists of seasoned legal professionals who work closely with the Medtronic Global Commercial Office and Medtronic Operating Units, including sales pricing and contract analysts, customer account managers, senior commercial leaders, and other functional experts to support commercial transactions for all of Medtronic’s medical technology products, services and solutions offered and sold in the United States.

This new role will lead critical and novel contracting strategies across Medtronic’s Cardiovascular, Neuroscience and Medical Surgical Portfolios to support commercialization of cutting-edge digital health solutions, complex surgical robotic platforms, smart medical devices, remote service systems and other data-enabled healthcare technology and service solutions for Medtronic’s diverse base of customers and strategic partners.

This is a high-impact role that requires a proactive, decisive, creative, and compliant solutions-oriented mindset to shape Medtronic’s commercial success in the dynamic digital health technology landscape.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts.

This position reports to the Legal Director, US Commercial Legal organization.

Responsibilities

• Support the negotiation and drafting of complex commercial arrangements and strategic partnerships in the technology, digital health, and healthcare space.
• Identify, assess, and communicate key contract risks, obligations, and practical mitigation strategies to internal stakeholders.
• In partnership with other subject matter experts, support discussions and negotiations regarding customer implementation strategies, product functionality, data use, and access and security issues.
• Collaborate closely with Medtronic’s various legal Centers of Expertise (COEs) and other legal and compliance professionals, as needed, to deliver the highest quality practical and strategic advice to sales, finance, and other stakeholders to close deals effectively and compliantly.
• Advise on federal healthcare laws, antikickback, antitrust, False Claims Act, HIPAA, state data privacy and security laws, software licensing, FDA law, IP and other legal risk areas governing data-enabled healthcare technology and AI commercial transactions.
• Develop, review, or implement company-wide and / or functionally specific training programs for the areas described above.
• Monitor evolving regulatory standards impacting commercial transactions of data-enabled healthcare technology and AI commercial transactions.
• Partner with other stakeholders to build efficient processes, including the creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, self-help workflows, and document management systems.

Minimum Requirements

Nice to Have

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the work and required skills. The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met to perform the essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities. For office roles : regular mobility, computer use, and communication with peers and co-workers.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Salary ranges for U.S. locations (excl. PR) : $190,400.00 - $285,600.00. This position is eligible for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) and annual long-term incentive plan. The base salary range applies across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and certain California locations. Benefits include health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life insurance, disability leave, retirement plans, stock purchase, and more.

Details on benefits and compensation plans are available here : 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 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart—putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. Learn more about our business, mission, and commitment to diversity.

Equal employment opportunity statement : Medtronic provides equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of protected characteristics and will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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