Sr. Project Manager, R&D

Stryker; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 103,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Project Manager, R&D to lead cross-functional initiatives spanning digital health, connected devices, and software delivery. You will shape how work gets done within a growing team, improve execution, and provide structure, visibility, and alignment across multiple workstreams.

You will partner with engineering, product, marketing, customer-facing teams, and other functions to manage dependencies, risks, and priorities while driving 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.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification is preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex, cross-functional R&D projects and digital product workstreams from planning through execution.
• Own project scope, schedules, milestones, and dependencies with integrated plans.
• Manage concurrent workstreams, resources, and dependencies across teams.
• Identify risks early and determine mitigation and escalation.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations and maintain momentum toward milestones.
• Influence stakeholders across functions without direct authority.
• Build scalable PM processes and improve execution.
• Facilitate planning, workshops, and stakeholder discussions.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to leadership.
• Support budgeting and capacity planning.
• Apply Agile practices to a fast-paced digital product environment.
• Foster collaboration and constructive problem-solving.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile/Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk management

Planning & scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

It\'s Time to Join Stryker!

Are you a project leader who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments where the path forward is not always predefined?

As a Senior Project Manager, R&D, you will lead highly visible, cross-functional projects supporting digital health, connected devices, and software delivery.

This is an opportunity to do more than manage an established process. You will help shape how work gets done within a growing team, identify opportunities to improve execution, and create the structure, visibility, and alignment needed to move complex programs forward.

You will partner across engineering, product, marketing, customer-facing teams, and other functions to manage multiple interconnected workstreams, dependencies, risks, and priorities. The right candidate combines strong project management fundamentals with the judgment, technical curiosity, and influence needed to lead teams without direct authority.

What You Will Do

• 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.

What You Need

• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent is Required.
• 6+ years of professional experience, including demonstrated project management experience leading complex projects.

What We Would Love That You Have (Preferred Qualifications)

You do not need to have all of these!

• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risk.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues, drive action, and improve processes rather than waiting for direction.
• Experience supporting digital products, software development, or other technology-driven programs.

• Experience working with connected devices, medical devices, or another complex product development environment.
• Experience with Agile or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Experience facilitating workshops, project scoping sessions, or other cross-functional planning activities.
• Experience with project budgeting and resource planning.
• New product development and/or sustaining product experience.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification.

Posted Date: 10/02/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• Puerto Rico: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
• USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
• US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
• US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
• US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
• US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
• US30: $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual

View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.