Senior Project Specialist, Medical Imaging Annotation
Medtronic
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
Join Our Mission to Transform Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence.
As a Senior Project Specialist, Medical Imaging Annotation at the AI Center of Excellence, you will play a critical role in enabling high-quality, large-scale annotation projects that power our AI and digital health solutions. You will be responsible for coordinating multiple annotation initiatives, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring timely delivery of projects that directly support our mission to advance patient care through AI-driven insights.
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.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Coordinate annotation and digitization projects across multiple modalities, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and quality metrics are met.
Collaborate with external vendors to define and manage Statements of Work (SOWs), conduct time studies, and align project requirements with annotator skillsets.
Track project performance and vendor throughput, proactively identifying risks or delays and escalating as needed.
Partner with vendor managers to ensure smooth execution, capacity planning, and alignment of resources.
Prepare and maintain project timelines in Miro and Smartsheet, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into progress.
Manage credit usage and provide regular updates for project reviews.
Build and maintain Power BI dashboards for reporting project health, performance, and status updates to leadership.
Ensure alignment of annotation projects with broader AI COE strategies and cross-functional initiatives.
Support continuous improvement by documenting lessons learned and recommending process enhancements.
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years of project management experience
Nice to Have:
Bachelor's degree in life sciences, data science, engineering, or a related technical field
Experience working with medical imaging formats (e.g., DICOM, NIfTI) and annotation workflows
Strong vendor management experience, including SOW creation and contract execution
Familiarity with AI/ML data preparation and annotation processes
Recognized project management certification (PMP, CAPM, or equivalent)
Proficiency with Smartsheet, Miro, Power BI, and Microsoft Teams
Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
Clear communicator-able to engage stakeholders at all levels and across functions
Detail-oriented, proactive, and results-driven with a focus on continuous improvement
Human physiology knowledge
About the AI Center of Excellence-
We sit in the center of technology and innovation for the largest MedTech company in the world. The AI COE is dedicated to advancing AI-powered solutions across the healthcare spectrum, and is collaborating with external partners around the globe to accelerate capabilities through cutting-edge research. You’ll be part of a global effort to transform patient outcomes as we are committed to harnessing the power of AI across our enterprise, collaborating with industry leaders, academia, governments, and private sector innovators.
Join us to help shape the future of healthcare—enabling groundbreaking advancements and making a meaningful difference for patients worldwide.
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.
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
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. 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.
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