Senior Project (Design) Mgr

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager, PMO organizes activities within the Program Management Office in Intuitive’s New Product Development organization. The PMO leads cross-functional teams working on new product development and continuation engineering. This role orchestrates project teams to deliver product designs within demanding release schedules, supporting vision and intelligence products such as endoscopes, light sources, and hardware- and software-enabled imaging modalities, with an emphasis on software-based projects as well as hardware projects. The Senior Project Manager works closely with a broad range of functions, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Human Factors, Technical Publications, Training, Service, Finance, and Marketing, as well as other program and project managers. The role requires strong organization and attention to detail, and is responsible for project planning, execution, communication, resource coordination, and risk management. The position also supports alignment of project goals with business-unit and corporate objectives and promotes process improvement across the PMO.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a scientific or engineering field plus 8 years of experience leading teams in medical-device product development and commercialization; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 6 years of experience.
Strong project/program management, planning, decision-making, negotiating, communication, and change-management skills.
Experience developing highly complex medical-device products through Design Controls, including capital equipment and consumables, with demonstrated success in product launches following product-development cycles.
Proven ability to lead, influence, and work effectively at all organizational levels and in cross-functional teams.
Experience leading project teams with multiple engineering disciplines, including clinical, mechanical, electrical, and software.
Ability to cultivate collaboration across departments and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
Ability to identify critical issues, react quickly under pressure, and drive issues to closure through coordinated direction.
High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple competing priorities, work under pressure, remain flexible, and meet deadlines.
Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and documentation skills, and high emotional intelligence.
Results-oriented, accountable, collaborative, self-starting, and proactive, with initiative, urgency, and follow-through.
Strong work ethic, self-direction, resourcefulness, and ability to handle conflict and drive solutions.
Ability to handle ambiguity and oversee multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to lead large numbers of people across a variety of programs.
Commitment and ability to continually develop better product-development processes, including program-management processes.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Experience across all phases of the product-development lifecycle, including idea generation, concept development and testing, design, implementation, validation, and transfer.
Experience with high-volume manufacturing and knowledge of automated production lines and injection molding.
Working knowledge of manufacturing, engineering, product strategy, and business management.
Experience evaluating tradeoffs among product desirability, feasibility, and viability.
Ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals, and drive metrics and execution.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional project teams for product development and product improvements.
Ensure Design Control processes are followed according to relevant procedures.
Ensure complex, high-value business-unit projects are properly scoped, resourced, and communicated to minimize risk and deliver on time and on budget.
Organize and manage team meetings, design review meetings, and phase-gate review meetings.
Create and maintain project schedules.
Develop and monitor project budgets.
Communicate project status, critical paths, and potential risks clearly to the organization.
Plan and track the creation of project design history documents by project teams.
Work with Operations and Manufacturing management to determine strategies for product cut-ins and roll-ins.
Support definition and alignment of project goals with business-unit and corporate objectives.
Organize and prioritize team work to accomplish project objectives.
Support team members, including functional managers, in planning and executing activities required to achieve project goals.
Support resource-demand planning, including estimating project work efforts, needs, roles, and responsibilities.
Communicate project priorities, deliverables, and milestones to the PMO, cross-functional team members, business-unit management, and shared-services management.
Coordinate with other project managers leading overall product-development programs to understand goals, scope, and timelines, and help functional managers negotiate resources and schedules.
Facilitate best-practice sharing and feedback within the PMO and identify process-improvement opportunities.