HR Digital Lead - Learning Digital Solutions

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Nov 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

The HR Digital AI COE team enables scalable, technology-driven experiences across the employee lifecycle by partnering with Human Resources (HR) Centers of Expertise, Information Technology (IT), vendors, and business stakeholders. This role sits within HR Digital Specialized Solutions and is responsible for the product strategy, delivery, and continuous evolution of enterprise-facing learning technologies, and AI-enabled learning capabilities that support learners, people leaders, administrators, and facilitators globally.
This position is located at Operational Headquarters (OHQ) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This role serves as the product owner and strategic lead for learning technologies, translating learning strategy and user needs into scalable digital solutions. The position owns product vision, roadmap development, demand prioritization, delivery of new & enhanced capabilities, vendor governance, adoption strategy, and continuous product improvement across learning platforms and AI-enabled learning experiences.

Primary Responsibilities

• Define and execute product vision, roadmap, and backlog strategies for learning solutions.
• Translate learner, manager, administrator, and business stakeholder needs into measurable product outcomes and feature priorities.
• Lead product lifecycle activities including discovery, requirements definition, delivery, launch, adoption, enhancement, and retirement.
• Establish product success measures, key performance indicators, and value realization metrics to evaluate business impact.
• Prioritize demand intake using learner impact, strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and resource considerations.
• Partner with learning, design, analytics, AI COE, IT, privacy, security, and operations teams to deliver product capabilities.
• Govern vendor relationships, platform performance, contractual commitments, dependencies, and roadmap alignment.
• Drive user adoption through communications, onboarding, training, feedback collection, and release readiness activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience OR advanced degree with 5+ years of experience in HR technology, learning technology, digital product management, or related product leadership roles.
• Experience owning product roadmaps, backlogs, and lifecycle management for enterprise technology solutions.
• Experience gathering stakeholder requirements and prioritizing initiatives using business value, risk, and feasibility criteria.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving technology, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders in a global organization.
• Experience defining and measuring product performance through metrics, key performance indicators, and outcome-based success measures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise learning platforms such as Sana Learn, Workday Learning or similar solutions and AI coaching solution experience such as Valence AI Coach is a distinct advantage.
• Experience with AI-enabled learning technologies, digital learning ecosystems, or talent development platforms.
• Experience applying Agile product management methodologies and iterative delivery practices.
• Experience with vendor governance, service management, and technology support operating models.
• Experience partnering with privacy, security, data governance, and enterprise architecture functions.

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 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. …