Senior Program Manager

Siemens Healthineers; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers seeks a Senior Program Manager to orchestrate day-to-day technical activities across supplier interfaces and internal engineering teams, ensuring system-level integration and aligned deliverables.

You will lead cross-functional programs, manage risks, and drive governance across hardware, software, and system boundaries while communicating with stakeholders and guiding project milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Physics, or related technical field.
• 8-12+ years of experience in technical program/project management in medical devices or complex systems.
• Proven experience working with external suppliers or partners in a technical environment.
• Strong understanding of system integration, hardware/software interfaces, and engineering development cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional and multi-company technical programs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end technical alignment across supplier interfaces and internal engineering teams; ensure integration is aligned, executed, and validated.
• Own technical alignment between Varian and external suppliers, ensuring requirements clarity, traceability, and execution consistency.
• Drive interface management across hardware, software, and system integration boundaries.
• Establish and enforce technical governance with suppliers (reviews, design checkpoints, issue tracking).
• Identify and resolve technical gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks early.
• Lead and coordinate day-to-day technical program execution across internal engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring alignment to schedule and deliverables.
• Translate program objectives into clear technical deliverables and milestones across suppliers.
• Maintain integrated program plans reflecting Varian and supplier dependencies.

Skills

End-to-end program management

External supplier collaboration

System integration

Cross-functional leadership

Technical governance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or master's in engineering/physics

Tools

Workday

Salesforce

SAP

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Senior Program Manager

This role is responsible for orchestrating day-to-day technical activities across supplier interfaces and internal engineering teams, ensuring that system-level integration, technical requirements, and deliverables are consistently aligned, executed, and validated. Working closely with Engineering, this role acts as the single point of coordination across supplier technical interfaces, proactively identifying risks, resolving misalignment early, and maintaining program momentum across complex, multi-disciplinary workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end technical alignment across Varian and supplier interfaces; owns resolution of any integration misalignment impacting program delivery.
• Own technical alignment between Varian and external suppliers, ensuring requirements clarity, traceability, and execution consistency
• Drive interface management across hardware, software, and system integration boundaries
• Establish and enforce technical governance with suppliers (reviews, design checkpoints, issue tracking)
• Identify and resolve technical gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks early

Program Execution & Coordination

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day technical program execution across internal engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring alignment to schedule and deliverables.
• Translate program objectives into clear technical deliverables and milestones across suppliers
• Maintain integrated program plans that reflect both Varian and supplier dependencies
• Own the technical decision tracker and ensure all decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented across organizations.Risk & Issue Management
• Proactively identify and elevate technical and integration risks
• Drive cross-company issue resolution, ensuring rapid decision-making and no loss of momentum

Communication & Leadership

• Serve as the primary interface between Varian and supplier technical leadership
• Provide clear, structured updates to internal stakeholders and leadership
• Facilitate technical decision-making across organizations, ensuring alignment and accountability
• Strategic Governance and Leadership of technical program milestones to accelerate schedules and proactively mitigate technical risks for the ARPA project.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Physics, or related technical field
• 8-12+ years of experience in technical program/project management, preferably in medical devices or complex systems
• Proven experience working with external suppliers or partners in a technical environment
• Strong understanding of system integration, hardware/software interfaces, and engineering development cycles
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional and multi-company technical programs
• Strong technical acumen with ability to engage deeply with engineering teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across organizational boundaries
• Structured problem-solving and risk management mindset
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast-paced development environments

Other Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• Proven experience with FLASH clinical trials.
• Experience with HCM (e.g., Workday), CRM (Salesforce) and ERP (SAP) product and productivity software.
• Strong can do and solution orientated focus.

What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months)

• Zero ambiguity in supplier technical interfaces and requirements
• Early identification and resolution of integration risks
• Smooth, predictable execution across supplier-dependent milestones
• Strong working relationships and trust established with key suppliers

Special Job Requirements:

• Occupational exposure to radiation and other occupational hazards pertaining to the operation of a linear accelerator
• Standing, sitting, or stooping for extended periods of time.
• Periodic travel (domestic or international) as required by project milestones, with a focus on remote coordination where possible.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual's potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world's most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

Salary Information

The base pay range for this position is:

• $167,030 - $229,669

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• paid parking/public transportation
• paid time off
• paid sick and safe time

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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Reasonable Accommodations

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