Technical Project Manager

Summary

Join Heartflow, a leading medical technology company revolutionizing precision heart care, as a Technical Project Manager. You will coordinate and manage cross-team and cross-department activities, facilitating product releases and ensuring adherence to design controls. This role requires strong project management skills, experience with Agile development, and a background in software engineering, ideally within the medical industry. You will lead detailed planning, execution, and delivery of cross-functional projects, working closely with engineering leads and scrum teams. Heartflow offers a competitive salary, cash bonus, and stock options, along with a commitment to a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Ability to lead meetings, set action items, and keep owners accountable for their action items
• Skilled at building detailed plans for software development projects, ensuring the relevant items, dependencies, and risks are identified, even with limited input
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good at understanding and communicating technical topics and issues at a high level
• Outstanding organizational skills including ability to prioritize tasks efficiently with high level of attention to detail
• Problem solver
• Passionate about seeking ways to improve processes
• Ability to deal with multiple projects
• A university degree with strong preference towards a software engineering background
• Minimum of 5 years experience with strong preference towards experience in a software and medical industry. Or an advanced degree with minimum 3 years experience
• Understanding of and experience with Agile development at scale

Responsibilities

• Help facilitate releases for involved projects
• Point person for cross-functional projects
• Lead detailed planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of cross-functional projects
• Recognize and coordinate dependencies of cross-functional projects, ensuring coordination occurs early and often
• Establish, maintain, and communicate plans for associated cross-functional projects
• Communicate on behalf of engineering leads and other project team members when required
• Hold team members accountable, set clear performance standards and goals, resolve performance issues, and keep teams engaged and on task
• Coach scrum teams and peers on scrum best practices
• Introduce new initiatives or concepts to the scrum teams
• Can represent product development in audits and is able to demonstrate traceability and compliance with written procedures for all product development efforts and releases
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with regulated SaaS products and/or software-as-a-medical-device (SAMD)
• Experience working with JIRA

Benefits

A reasonable estimate of the yearly base compensation range is $91,000 to $147,000, cash bonus, and stock options