Sr. Technical Project Manager

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About Lark

Lark is the world's largest A.I. healthcare provider, having provided care to more than a million patients suffering from, or at risk of, chronic diseases like Diabetes and Heart Disease. We’re on a mission to improve people’s health and happiness through our digital health coaching platform and smart connected devices. We are the only A.I. platform ever to become medically reimbursed to 100% replace a live healthcare professional, providing deeply scalable care to create real change. Since launch, Lark has continued to receive awards and accolades for both our product, and our leadership, including:

  • Fierce Healthcare's "15 Most Promising Companies in Healthcare"
  • Business Insider's "Most Innovative Companies in the World" along with Uber and Airbnb
  • Apple's "Top 10 Apps" in the World
  • CEO "Top 10 Women in Tech" by Inc. Magazine
  • CB Insights "Most Promising Digital Health Companies in the World"

Lark is on a mission to make the world a healthier, happier place…if you want to be part of the journey…join us! 

The Role

Lark is seeking a talented Senior Technical Project Manager to drive engineering projects, ensuring our release schedules are delivered flawlessly. We are looking for someone who enjoys the challenges of working with consumer-facing and partner-facing projects in a start-up environment.  The right candidate will have excellent organizational, communication, leadership, technical, and customer relationship skills. In this role, you will establish proper expectations with internal and external stakeholders, drive speedy resolution within a schedule, and communicate status throughout the organization.  

What You’ll Do

  • Drive execution and smooth delivery of multiple high-profile technical, product or projects from start to finish in the Data Engineering space, and possibly other engineering functions as well.
  • Organize and continually maintain project transparency by establishing key project information, visualizations, and a schedule/roadmap for all phases of a project, as possible. 
  • Define and refine Agile metrics to understand project performance.
  • Foster communication around project status with various cross-functional stakeholders within the organization, and working to maintain harmony and accountability across the team.
  • Take meeting notes (attendees, items discussed, what changed, blockers, next steps, action items).
  • Risk & Issue Management: tracking issues, working to have mitigations in place, and escalating as needed. Recognize situational severity and know when to push for actionable next steps toward resolution and when to escalate.

What You’ll Need

  • Deep knowledge and practical experience in structured project management & application development processes 
  • Experience developing project management skills and capabilities within teams
  • Deep understanding of software engineering and release cycles
  • Familiarity working with startups and their release patterns, Agile preferred
  • Proficient in tools required to manage complex projects (i.e. Gantt charts, Jira, GitHub, etc). familiarity with Confluence is a plus! 

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or STEM field, Masters preferred
  • 10-15 years experience as a Technical Project Manager
  • PMP certification or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge of other approaches in Agile; Kanban, Lean, etc.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with all stakeholders to C-level
  • Prior experience in software engineering/data a strong plus

JOIN US

Our team works with cutting-edge tools and technology related to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We are using NLP to process millions of meals, and accelerometer data to compute activity and sleep amounts from users' phones. Our chat A.I. is the most sophisticated digital health engagement tool in the world. Join us and make it even better!

Working at Lark 

Lark offers the option to work remotely when both the employee and the job are suited to such an arrangement and when the employee and their manager are in alignment with the work location and working hours. This option is only applicable to U.S. employees. To accommodate all employees, we have identified the “core” period of the day during which all employees are required to work for scheduled meetings, syncs, scrums between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific time. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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2570 El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040

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