Art Director

• Advance Design Quality excellence across Medtronic by shaping strategy, standards, governance, and performance visibility for critical product development and quality system capabilities.
• Partner across Operating Units, Regions, and Core Quality Services to simplify and standardize Design Quality practices, strengthen inspection readiness, and enable consistent execution across a broad global product portfolio.
• Develop and execute functional objectives, build enterprise capability, and develop employees with the skills, knowledge, and judgment needed to move Medtronic Operating Units forward.
• Create and lead real-time critical process governance for high-priority product development programs, including expert consultation, issue escalation, and cross-functional alignment.
• Drive Design Quality Excellence across Operating Units by aligning OU practices to enterprise standards while enabling practical, risk-based execution in local business contexts.

Director, Quality Center of Expertise – Design Quality

• Lead complex, institution-wide instructional design initiatives.
• Direct large-scale instructional design projects that span academic departments and functional units, requiring coordination of personnel, timelines, and resources.
• Exercise independent judgment in project planning and resolution of complex instructional challenges.
• Evaluate outcomes and use data-informed decision-making to guide continuous improvement efforts.
• Provide strategic leadership for instructional design services and faculty development.
• Independently lead the strategic planning and continuous improvement of instructional design services that support online, hybrid, and face-to-face instruction.
• Establish priorities, standards, and best practices for course design, instructional quality, and learner engagement in alignment with institutional goals and accreditation requirements.
• Establish and oversee quality assurance and course review processes.
• Oversee institution-wide course review processes grounded in research-based instructional design, adult learning theory, and quality assurance frameworks.
• Make determinations regarding course readiness, instructional quality, and alignment with best practices.
• Recommend and implement improvements that impact academic programs and student learning outcomes.
• Support institutional compliance and digital accessibility.
• Provide leadership for compliance with digital accessibility standards, distance education regulations, and institutional policies.
• Interpret regulatory requirements, establish internal guidelines, and ensure instructional design practices meet legal, accreditation, and ethical standards.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and institutional advisor on digital accessibility and other compliance matters as appropriate.
• Serve as an institutional consultant and leader in faculty development.
• Serve as a consultant to faculty and academic leadership on course design, instructional innovation, and pedagogical effectiveness.
• Design and oversee professional development programs that advance faculty capacity in online and hybrid teaching.
• Influence instructional practices across colleges through expertise, leadership, and collaboration.
• Supervise, develop, and evaluate instructional design staff.
• Directly supervise instructional design staff, including hiring, performance evaluation, professional development, workload prioritization, and performance improvement.
• Set expectations, delegate authority, and hold staff accountable for outcomes.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous professional growth.
• Collaborate on instructional technology strategy and innovation.
• Collaborate with instructional technology, LMS, and academic support teams to guide the strategic integration of technology into teaching and learning.
• Provide leadership in evaluating emerging technologies, developing user support strategies, and aligning instructional design principles with technology adoption decisions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Director, Instructional Design

• Provides professional and project management expertise in the direction of highly unconventional projects
• Functions as mentor to technical professionals
• Performs the basic project functions of production coordination, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, financial management and marketing
• Coordinates and participates in contract negotiations with clients and subcontractors
• Drafts very complex professional service agreements
• Conducts QCAP reviews
• Develops enhanced standards and procedures for project delivery excellence
• Directs project team compliance with contract terms
• Monitors subcontractors' progress, performance and compliance
• Participates in contract dispute resolution and litigation
• Reviews and approves subconsultant and vendor invoices
• Develops, communicates and manages project quality assurance
• Monitors schedules, billings and reports
• Identifies new business opportunities for the firm
• Coordinates and participates in project presentations to clients
• Supervises other project managers, technical professionals and other design staff
• Conducts project management training workshops

Project Director – Major Design Build Projects, Highways/Bridges

• Collaborate closely with the Directors of Product and Engineering to bring products to life, from ideation through execution and launch.
• Help drive strategy to meet and expand our customer base's needs as we grow Soundstripe
• Lead and drive strategically to solve customer problems and build solutions as we expand from B2C to B2B to B2E
• Own product design across our web platform and new product surfaces, from concept to shipped pixels
• Advocate for UX quality in product and leadership discussions. Be the voice of the customer in the room
• Own the aesthetic and emotional identity of the Soundstripe brand in partnership with Marketing. You're the final word on whether something looks and feels like us
• Provide creative direction across product and brand/marketing design. You don't need to do all the brand work, but you set the standard
• Design tokens, component architecture, and scalable patterns that let a small team punch way above its weight, especially when paired with AI tooling
• Rethink design workflows with AI at the center, from Figma-to-code pipelines and automated/semi-automated asset generation, to using LLMs for UX research synthesis, spec writing, and prototyping. You'll be expected to lead AI adoption within design, not wait for engineering to hand you tools

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