Engineering Project Manager - Cross Product

Summary

Join Natera as a Software Project Manager to 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 milestones, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. This role demands strong communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of software development project management experience, preferably in Life Sciences or Biotech. Natera offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, as well as free testing for employees and their families.

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

• Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more
• We also offer a generous employee referral program!