Principal Program Manager

Magnendo•Newton, MA

23h

About The Position

Magnendo is developing robotic technology for endovascular procedures by combining advanced robotics, magnetic navigation, and intelligent software. The Principal Program Manager will build and lead the company’s program-management function and drive integrated development of its endovascular robotics platform. This senior leadership role translates product goals into practical execution plans, aligns multidisciplinary internal and external teams, and leads the program from prototype through first-in-human readiness and MVP development, as well as future product generations. The role establishes program-management practices that create ownership, transparency, and disciplined execution. It works as a peer to technical and functional leaders and coordinates internal teams and external development partners, suppliers, consultants, academic collaborators, and clinical or strategic partners. The position also manages and develops a Senior Project Manager supporting a major externally partnered program. The Principal Program Manager ensures that program progress is tied to demonstrated system performance, provides useful dashboards and executive reporting, and surfaces decisions, risks, resource constraints, budget status, and schedule or deliverable impacts. The role adapts Agile, Waterfall, milestone-driven, or hybrid approaches to the needs and maturity of each workstream.

Requirements

Over 10 years of program-management or technical program-leadership experience in the medical-device, surgical-robotics, or a similarly complex regulated-product industry.
Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary, multi-year product-development programs from early technology development through regulated product realization.
Experience managing integrated programs involving both hardware and software development; capital equipment, robotics, imaging, or software-intensive medical systems experience is preferred.
Deep knowledge of medical-device product development, including design controls, requirements management, risk management, verification and validation, regulatory readiness, manufacturing transfer, and quality-system expectations.
Ability to translate strategy and technical plans into integrated roadmaps and schedules spanning technical work, clinical activities, external partnerships, regulatory deliverables, manufacturing, and commercialization.
Ability to identify gaps, facilitate tradeoffs, ask difficult questions, and help technical leaders align around practical execution plans.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar program budgets, resources, milestones, and executive-level reporting.
Experience managing, developing, and supervising project- or program-management personnel.
Excellent communication skills, including conveying program status, complex dependencies, difficult tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to technical teams, executives, clinical stakeholders, sponsors, and external partners.
Training in PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Experience in surgical robotics, endovascular or neurovascular devices, image-guided intervention, or autonomous or semi-autonomous medical systems.
Experience supporting first-in-human readiness, preclinical studies, and clinical collaborations.
Experience leading milestone-based programs involving government sponsors, strategic partners, or multiple subcontractors with recurring reporting and evidence requirements.
Experience establishing or scaling a program-management function within an early-stage medical-device company.

Responsibilities

Build and lead Magnendo’s program-management function and establish an operating framework for ownership, transparency, and disciplined execution.
Translate company objectives and technical plans into a maintained integrated master schedule covering workstreams, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, resource needs, and critical-path visibility.
Maintain alignment across the full program while operating as a peer to technical and functional leaders.
Work with discipline heads to define readiness criteria, completion evidence, and decision gates, and connect technical progress, integration activities, and system demonstrations to the program plan.
Lead program, technical, design, phase-gate, and partner reviews; support timely decisions, visible risks, and milestone completion with appropriate documentation and demonstrated system performance.
Identify schedule, budget, resource, or deliverable impacts early; facilitate cross-functional tradeoffs and drive corrective action and escalation when required.
Coordinate external development partners, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, academic collaborators, and clinical or strategic partners as part of an integrated product-development program.
Manage and develop a Senior Project Manager supporting a major externally partnered program, ensuring partner coordination, milestone evidence, and reporting are accurate, timely, and integrated into the broader development program.
Establish program dashboards and executive reporting that communicate progress, critical decisions, risks, resource constraints, budget status, and areas requiring leadership attention.
Select and adapt Agile, Waterfall, milestone-driven, or hybrid development approaches to the needs and maturity of each workstream.
Help build a culture in which progress is measured by demonstrated system performance.