Project Manager

TekWissen ®; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen Group in Irvine, CA seeks an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to own sprint execution, release coordination, and delivery reporting for digital products in a regulated setting.

You will drive backlog grooming, establish delivery metrics, and lead cross-functional vendor teams to ensure commitments are met while transitioning processes to client-owned operations. This role requires 5+ years of relevant experience and strong Jira/Confluence skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products, eCommerce platforms, or customer-facing applications.
• Strong Jira and Confluence expertise, including workflows, boards, dashboards, reporting, and administration.
• Experience supporting eCommerce, B2B/B2C digital commerce, customer portals, order management, or transactional platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence third-party vendors, systems integrators, and offshore teams while maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to establish meaningful delivery metrics and drive data-based decisions.
• Pharma, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Comfortable working with AI-assisted delivery and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint execution, delivery flow, and release readiness.
• Drive backlog grooming, estimation, prioritization, and Definition of Ready compliance.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics, including velocity, throughput, capacity, and committed-versus-delivered performance.
• Lead execution across client and vendor teams, ensuring commitments are met and risks are addressed early.
• Drive accountability with vendors and external partners through clear metrics, issue management, quality oversight, and escalation processes.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and release coordination.
• Produce concise status reporting for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Support the transition of delivery processes, reporting, and tooling from vendor-led to client-owned operations.
• Maintain Jira and Confluence standards, dashboards, workflows, and reporting.
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams.

Skills

Agile delivery leadership

Jira and Confluence

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Data-driven decision making

Regulated-industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

PMP or CAPM certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.

Key Responsibilities

• Own sprint execution, delivery flow, and release readiness.


• Drive backlog grooming, estimation, prioritization, and Definition of Ready compliance.


• Establish and maintain delivery metrics, including velocity, throughput, capacity, and committed-versus-delivered performance.


• Lead execution across Client and vendor teams, ensuring commitments are met and risks are addressed early.


• Drive accountability with vendors and external partners through clear metrics, issue management, quality oversight, and escalation processes.


• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and release coordination.


• Produce concise status reporting for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.


• Support the transition of delivery processes, reporting, and tooling from vendor-led to client-owned operations.


• Maintain Jira and Confluence standards, dashboards, workflows, and reporting.


• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products, eCommerce platforms, or customer-facing applications.


• Strong Jira and Confluence expertise, including workflows, boards, dashboards, reporting, and administration.


• Experience supporting eCommerce, B2B/B2C digital commerce, customer portals, order management, or transactional platforms.


• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence third-party vendors, systems integrators, and offshore teams while maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes.


• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.


• Ability to establish meaningful delivery metrics and drive data-based decisions.


• Pharma, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.


• Comfortable working with AI-assisted delivery and reporting tools.

Years Of Experience/education And/or Certifications Required

• 10+

What are the top 3-5 skills requirements should this person have?

• Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects in a regulated technical, laboratory, pharmaceutical, medical device, manufacturing, or life sciences environment.


• Experience developing integrated schedules and managing project governance, meetings, action tracking, status reporting, and risks/issues.


• Strong communication, organization, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.


• Ability to identify critical paths and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery actions.


• Ability to work effectively with technical, quality, facilities/engineering, laboratory, procurement, IT, vendor, and senior stakeholder groups.

What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?

• Examples: Bachelor of Science; 4 year pharma, health care, or regulated industry


• PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project management certification.


• Experience with laboratory construction, renovation, commissioning, qualification, validation, or operational readiness.


• Experience with complaint handling, product quality, laboratory testing, investigations, or post-market surveillance.


• Experience in GLP, GMP, or a similarly regulated environment.


• Familiarity with change control, quality systems, validation documentation, inspection/audit readiness, and geographically distributed teams.

First 90 Days

• Assume ownership of sprint execution, release coordination, and delivery reporting.


• Establish baseline delivery metrics and capacity planning.


• Improve backlog readiness and reduce execution bottlenecks.


• Increase visibility and accountability across client and vendor teams.


• Recommend and implement process improvements that improve delivery predictability while reducing unnecessary overhead.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.