Senior Technical PM - Cross-Functional Informatics Projects

The Transmitter; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Simons Foundation’s Informatics group in New York City seeks an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead high-priority, cross-functional projects from planning to delivery. You will partner with product, engineering, bioinformatics, and study teams to translate objectives into executable plans and manage dependencies and risks.

Based on-site in NYC, you will drive consistent practices that improve execution and visibility across the Informatics portfolio, communicating with engineers,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technical, scientific, or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex technical projects involving software engineering, data systems, or comparable tech environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with technical teams to develop project plans, manage milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables, and drive projects through completion.
• Strong technical fluency to identify risks, dependencies, gaps, and questions requiring resolution.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning and delivery of selected high-priority, complex, or cross-functional Informatics projects from initiation through completion.
• Develop and maintain clear project plans, timelines, milestones, responsibilities, resource needs, and risk management strategies.
• Coordinate work across software engineering, product, bioinformatics, scientific and study teams, as well as external partners and stakeholders.
• Translate project objectives and requirements into actionable execution plans, identifying gaps, open questions, dependencies, and decisions needed to move work forward.
• Maintain project documentation including plans, requirements, decision records, responsibilities, dependencies, risks, open questions, and status.
• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, and other indicators of project health; provide clear status reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Facilitate planning meetings, maintain project management systems (e.g., Jira, Confluence, etc.), document decisions, and drive follow-through.
• Identify emerging risks, issues, dependencies; develop mitigation strategies and elevate issues when appropriate.
• Ensure applicable Foundation policies, regulatory requirements, and data governance are incorporated into planning and delivery.
• Establish and improve consistent project planning, tracking, communication, and delivery practices across Informatics.

Skills

Technical fluency

Communication skills

Agile experience

Risk management

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

monday.com

Version control

Job description

The Simons Foundation’s Informatics group in New York City seeks an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead high-priority, cross-functional projects from planning to delivery. You will partner with product, engineering, bioinformatics, and study teams to translate objectives into executable plans and manage dependencies and risks.

Based on-site in NYC, you will drive consistent practices that improve execution and visibility across the Informatics portfolio, communicating with engineers,