Leads medical device R&D product development projects from initiation through completion. Maintains project plans, timelines, budgets, resources, risk analyses, testing protocols, and project documentation. Coordinates cross-functional and external teams, resolves delivery obstacles, monitors design control deliverables, ensures compliance with quality and regulatory requirements, and provides status reporting. Recommends vendors and materials while managing competing priorities and supporting product testing and data collection.
Title: Sr Project Manager
This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site, full-time.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients?
As part of our team at Imperative Care, you can help elevate care for patients suffering from stroke and other devastating vascular diseases. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.
What You’ll Do
As an advanced professional in this field, a Senior Project Manager uses high level of expertise to plan and implement assigned R&D product development projects or programs and keeping them on schedule from start through project completion. This position will manage all activities in the project timeline, monitoring output from cross-functional project team members and determining best course of action for project complications that pose a challenge to deliverables.
- Carry out and maintain project plans, timelines, agendas, budgets, resourcing requirements, rolling summaries and other tools required to facilitate planning and coordination of deliverables for multiple R&D projects.
- Proactively facilitate communication among internal and external members of a project team to ensure effective, accurate and timely collaboration across functional areas and serve as a primary point of contact for work and communication flow. Oversee activities in writing of reports or presentations.
- Develop project tracking tools/mechanisms for monitoring progress of key deliverables and project dossier, and problem solve with cross-functional teams to remove obstacles.
- Ensure timely completion of project’s design control deliverables.
- Assess project issues and develop solutions to meet productivity and quality goals ensuring alignment and standardization across projects and/or functions.
- Perform risk analysis activities and develop product testing plans and protocols; set up and run product testing and protocols in accordance with project plans.
- Research and recommend vendor and material choices for product.
- Prioritize and manage multiple, often competing deliverables, prepare and deliver status reports.
- Ensure product documentation is in accordance with Quality System and regulatory requirements.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of increasingly responsible project management experience in the medical device industry; or a combination of education/training and experience.
- Strong knowledge and exposure to product testing and data collection.
- Solid working knowledge of project management tools and resources.
- Experience working under quality systems designed to meet governmental regulations such as FDA QSR, ISO 13485, and the MDD.
- Strong working knowledge of relevant regulatory standards that apply to specific product/project.
- Familiar with Design Control procedures and requirements.
- Excellent communications skills (both written and verbal) required.
- Ability to work independently or in team setting required.
- Must be able to travel to support project goals as required.
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
Join Us! Imperative Care
Salary Range: $160,000 – 181,000 annually
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Imperative Care considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer. As part of our total rewards package, Imperative Care offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
Imperative Care Campbell, California, USA Office
Dell Ave, Campbell, CA, United States, 95008
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