6473 - Systems Engineering Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

Verista; Alameda (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k) Matching

PTO & Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Verista is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional programs in life sciences, driving integrated schedules, Agile practices, and cross-team coordination to meet program objectives.

You will translate technical discussions into actionable plans, manage risks, and report progress. A Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years PM experience are required; this role offers hybrid work and quarterly travel to Alameda, CA. Salary range provided below.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of technical project/program management in product development or technology.
• Proven ability to develop integrated schedules with milestones and dependencies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication; effective meeting facilitation.
• Familiarity with systems engineering and MBSE practices; PMP/PMI-ACP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead program planning and integrated project schedules with milestones and resources.
• Drive cross-functional delivery across engineering, software, hardware, QA, and other teams.
• Facilitate governance sessions to define scope, priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Monitor performance, risks, and mitigation actions; coordinate changes and escalations.
• Apply Agile/Scrum and hybrid processes including backlog, sprints, and retrospectives.
• Develop leadership reporting, dashboards, and milestone tracking.
• Support supplier, resource, and financial management; knowledge transfer and transitions.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Scheduling

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/science/business

Tools

Airtable

Cameo

MagicDraw

DOORS/IBM ELM

Windchill

Jira

Confluence

Tasktop

Job description

Description

Description Verista’s 500 experts team up with the world’s most recognizable brands in the life science industry to solve their business needs. The nature of our business is to empower growth and innovation within the scientific community and to help researchers, organizations, and companies solve some of the world’s most pressing healthcare challenges. Verista provides innovative solutions and services that empower informed decision-making and are the result of our significant investment in our people and our capabilities.

Our ability to grow is driven by world-class people who thrive in a team environment and share our mission to enable life sciences clients to improve lives. Our talented and dedicated professionals are committed to making an impact every day.

Company Culture Guidelines & Values:

• We empower and support our colleagues
• We commit to client success at every turn
• We have the courage to do the right thing
• We encourage an inclusive environment where our colleagues feel respected, engaged, and challenged.
• We constantly acquire new skills and learn from our experiences to enhance our collective expertise

Senior Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Lead program planning and execution, developing and maintaining integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, work-back plans, dependencies, and resource assumptions.
• Drive cross-functional delivery across Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, software, hardware, quality, and other technical teams to ensure alignment with program objectives.
• Facilitate planning and governance sessions to define scope, deliverables, sequencing, priorities, key decisions, and delivery commitments.
• Monitor project performance and execution, identifying schedule variance, constraints, dependencies, and resource issues while coordinating mitigation and recovery actions.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum and hybrid project-management processes, including backlog, sprint/release planning, prioritization, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Establish effective team operating practices that promote transparency, accountability, communication, and predictable delivery across workstreams.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and changes, coordinating impact assessments, mitigation plans, escalations, and resolution through completion.
• Coordinate cross-project interfaces and stakeholder communication, documenting decisions, assumptions, action items, and rationale while escalating issues requiring leadership direction.
• Develop leadership-ready reporting and project analytics, including dashboards, status reports, action/decision logs, milestone tracking, and planned-versus-actual performance.
• Support supplier, resource, and financial management, including work-package definition, supplier performance tracking, effort/budget inputs, contractor planning, knowledge transfer, and project transition activities.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience supporting product development, engineering, software, or technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional teams in a fast-paced development environment.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience applying them in practice.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, communication, and meeting-facilitation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with technical subject-matter experts while translating discussions into actionable plans and documented outcomes.
• Familiarity with systems engineering, product line engineering, systems integration, verification planning, requirements management, and digital/model-based engineering practices.
• Experience with tools such as Airtable, Cameo, MagicDraw, DOORS/IBM ELM, Windchill, Jira, Confluence, Tasktop, or comparable systems engineering and collaboration platforms.
• Experience supporting hardware, embedded software, digital/cloud products, engineering platforms, or IT systems, including EVMS and structured financial/project performance reporting.
• Experience in medical devices, life sciences, or other regulated product-development environments; PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or comparable certification preferred.

This position allows for a hybrid setup. Qualified candidates must be able to travel to Alameda, CA on a quarterly basis, at minimum.

For US geography, the salary range for this position is shown below. The actual salary is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, market demand, and competitive market practice. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.*Verista is an equal opportunity employer.

National (US) Range: $100,000 USD - $158,930 USD

Benefits

Why Choose Verista?

• High growth potential and fast-paced organization with a people-focused culture
• Competitive pay plus performance-based incentive programs
• Company-paid Life, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Medical, Dental & Vision insurances
• FSA, DCARE, Commuter Benefits
• Supplemental Life, Hospital, Critical Illness and Legal Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (Employer Matching benefit)
• Paid Time Off (Rollover Option) and Holidays
• As Needed Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Team Social Activities (We have fun!)
• Employee Recognition
• Employee Referral Program
• Paid Parental Leave and Bereavement

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