Project Manager, Software

Stryker; Town of Portage (NY); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation in the United States is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead software and software-enabled medical device initiatives within Acute Care R&D. You will partner across technical, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams to ensure disciplined execution from initiation to closure.

The role emphasizes design controls, cybersecurity, and compliant delivery, with a hybrid work arrangement and substantial collaboration across functions to deliver impactful, on-time results.

Qualifications

• PM experience leading software and software-enabled medical device projects.
• Familiar with design controls and lifecycle processes in regulated environments.
• Experience with Agile, hybrid, or phase-gated delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead software development, software sustainment, lifecycle management for software-enabled medical devices.
• Develop project charters, integrated plans, schedules, budgets, resource assumptions, and risk registers.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests.
• Build detailed schedules identifying critical paths, milestones, and dependencies.
• Drive compliance with design controls, software lifecycle, cybersecurity, quality system, and PM requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Marketing, Service.
• Create project quality and risk plans, stakeholder communication approaches, and resource/budget assumptions.
• Report status to teams and leadership on schedule, scope, quality, budget, and risk.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Project status reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent inEngineering, CS, IS, Business, or related field

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What You Will Do:

Lead software and software-enabled medical device initiatives within Acute Care Research and Development, partnering across technical, quality, regulatory, and commercial functions. You will guide projects and major workstreams from initiation through closure while supporting disciplined execution, regulatory compliance, and predictable delivery.

• Lead software development, software sustainment, lifecycle management, and software-enabled medical device projects or major workstreams from initiation through closure.
• Develop project charters, integrated plans, schedules, budgets, resource assumptions, and risk registers.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests.
• Build detailed project schedules that identify critical paths, major workstreams, dependencies, decision points, and intersecting milestones.
• Drive compliance with applicable design control, software development lifecycle, cybersecurity, quality system, and project management requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution among Research and Development, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Marketing, Service, and supporting functions.
• Create project quality plans, risk-response plans, stakeholder communication approaches, and resource and budget assumptions with project partners.
• Report project status to project teams, functional stakeholders, and project management leadership, including updates on schedule, scope, quality, budget, and risk.

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• 4+ years of professional experience, including project management or project leadership experience.
• Experience applying project management methodologies, planning tools, risk management practices, stakeholder management, and project status reporting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing software development, software sustainment, or software-enabled product development projects.
• Experience in Research and Development, medical devices, healthcare technology, or another regulated product development environment.
• Experience with Agile, hybrid, iterative, or phase-gated software delivery models.
• PMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum, or an equivalent project management certification, or willingness to obtain one.

• $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

Travel Percentage: None

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.