Senior R&D Project Lead, Digital Health

Stryker Group; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Project Manager, R&D to lead cross-functional, high-visibility initiatives in digital health, connected devices, and software delivery. You will shape how work gets done, improve execution, and create the structure needed to move complex programs forward.

You will partner with engineering, product, marketing, and other teams to manage interdependent workstreams, risks, and priorities, using traditional and Agile practices to drive results without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is Required.
• 6+ years of professional experience, including demonstrated project management experience leading complex projects.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving results through influence rather than direct reporting authority.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and make sound decisions in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience supporting digital products, software development, or other technology-driven programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex, cross-functional R&D projects and digital product workstreams from planning through execution, balancing new product development, sustaining work, integrations, and other strategic business initiatives.
• Own project scope, schedules, milestones, and dependencies, including development of integrated plans that align digital and connected-device teams.
• Manage several concurrent workstreams and priorities, ensuring resources are focused at the right time and cross-functional dependencies are visible and actively managed.
• Identify project risks early, evaluate business impact and interdependencies, and use sound judgment to determine appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Drive clarity and accountability in ambiguous situations, helping teams make decisions, resolve obstacles, and maintain momentum against key milestones.
• Partner closely with engineering and technical teams, developing enough understanding of the work to anticipate dependencies, ask meaningful questions, and support effective planning and execution.
• Influence stakeholders across functions and levels without direct authority, building alignment while balancing competing priorities and business needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management processes, workflows, and operating practices, and help build scalable approaches that make execution easier for the teams that follow.
• Facilitate project planning, scoping, workshops, and stakeholder discussions, ensuring teams understand priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and next steps.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to project teams and senior leadership.
• Support resource and budget planning, working with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate capabilities and capacity are aligned to project needs.
• Apply both traditional and, where appropriate, Agile project management practices to support a fast-paced digital product environment.
• Build strong working relationships across the organization while creating an environment where team members are comfortable raising concerns, challenging assumptions, and identifying better ways of working.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PMP certification

Agile methodologies

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Senior Project Manager, R&D to lead cross-functional, high-visibility initiatives in digital health, connected devices, and software delivery. You will shape how work gets done, improve execution, and create the structure needed to move complex programs forward.

You will partner with engineering, product, marketing, and other teams to manage interdependent workstreams, risks, and priorities, using traditional and Agile practices to drive results without direct authority.