Project Manager, Senior – Robot

Team: Engineering - General

Location: Santa Cruz, California

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and actively manage detailed project schedules (MS Project) with dependencies, resources and critical path on a weekly basis
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, core team meetings, and technical working meetings
• Ensure full design control compliance: traceability matrices, design reviews, DHF completeness, and on time deliverables for critical phase gates
• Drive mitigation plans and escalate when needed
• Prepare clear updates, dashboards and decision materials for cross-functional program and leadership reviews
• Support vendor selection, and ongoing supplier management for key components and capital equipment
• Mentor junior project leads (engineering) and help instill project management discipline across the organization
• Work on site to keep a pulse in a fast moving environment

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project management experience in medical devices; Class III implantable and/or robotic/capital
• Proven track record of shipping at least one cardiovascular implantable or robotic/capital system through FDA submission or approval
• Familiar with design controls (21 CFR 820.30, ISO 13485), risk management (ISO14971) and DHF maintenance
• Exceptional organization skills and attention to detail
• Strong influencing skills with no direct authority
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or life sciences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with structural heart valves (TAVR or TMVR) or robotic catheter delivery systems
• Core team lead or experience leading cross-functional projects
• Experience with early stage clinical trial studies (First In Human, Early Feasibility, etc)
• Prior Series B/C startup experience with successful exits or acquisitions

You Will Thrive If:

• You’re obsessed with schedules, risk management and keeping teams marching in lockstep
• You stay calm when timelines slip and can make recommendations on how to recover them

Why Join Us:

• We offer a fun, fast-paced, collaborative environment where you will be working on transformational technologies in the cardiac healthcare space that can make a meaningful impact for patients
• We offer outstanding benefits with medical, dental, and vision covered at 100% for you and your family, as well as flex time off
• We thrive in our work-hard, play-hard environment. Bring your bike or running shoes if you’d like or just be ready to enjoy a fun office outing. We enjoy time inside the office and out!