Engineering Project Manager

Summary

Join Natera as a Software Project Manager and lead complex software projects, utilizing agile methodologies to collaborate with engineering teams, track progress, and report to management. You will drive project planning, manage timelines and resources, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. This role demands strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development project management, particularly within the Life Sciences or Biotech industry. Natera offers a competitive compensation package and a comprehensive benefits program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of project management experience in software development, preferably in the Life Sciences or Biotech space
• Experience planning and leading enterprise software projects, developing timelines, documentation and reporting
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and SDLC
• Experience with using Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, Jama) as well as Smartsheet
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively communicate with the project teams and top-level management
• A strong understanding of software best practices and systems architecture
• Experience with proactive / creative problem solving, and negotiation skills
• Excellent organization, prioritization and time management / multi-tasking skills (comfortable in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment)
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-functional project leadership of software development initiatives as part of a broader program
• Drive collaboration and coordination between multiple engineering teams to facilitate the project planning process and creation of comprehensive timelines and milestones considering available resources, dependencies, priorities, risks and other constraints
• Take ownership of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Generate the necessary documentation and assist teams with creating project plans, protocols, reports, etc
• Track project progress, risks, and provide detailed status reports
• Interface with external partners to facilitate joint development efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a regulated environment is a nice-to-have
• Certification or formal training in Project Management such as a PMP or CSM is a nice-to-have

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• A generous employee referral program