Sr. Project Manager - Software PMO

Intuitive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in San Francisco is seeking a Digital Program Manager to lead cross-functional product initiatives across hardware, software, clinical and regulatory timelines, and manufacturing constraints. You will influence teams, manage risk, and drive disciplined requirements analysis, design, development, and testing through phase gates to deliver high-quality outcomes.

This role requires strong communication with executives and partners, ensuring the right information flows at the right time

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage cross-functional development programs across Intuitive's business units and shared services.
• Help teams prioritize tasks to focus on critical activities and avoid distractions.
• Collaborate with teams to keep the right people updated on status and dependencies.
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and inform prioritization decisions.
• Drive discipline in requirements analysis, design, development, and testing through phase gates.
• Coordinate with internal and external partners to align input for the project.
• Support process improvements in how we ship new products and capabilities.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for stakeholders across the organization.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

Intuitive's Digital organization aims to improve patient care and empower care teams with unique data and insights from our integrated digital ecosystem. Program Managers in Digital are responsible for delivering new products and sustaining existing capabilities to our customers and partners.

Program Managers in Digital are responsible for delivering new products. We're looking for people with proven track records of delivering complex, integrated, cross-functional products with high standards of quality. Digital program managers are engaged in all aspects of the product lifecycle from requirements analysis and architectural design to software engineering development, QA, deployment, and market rollout. Our program managers align hardware and software engineering, clinical and regulatory schedules, and ensure that the right products are created at the right time, with low drama.

At Intuitive, Program Management is not a task-based job. We are responsible for successful outcomes and delivery. This means that while strong program management fundamentals are a must, the role requires an understanding of product development and manufacturing, and, most importantly, managing through influence.

We look for candidates who know what success looks like and feel a personal stake in the services they support and the people they manage. People who understand how medical technology products are developed. People with a deep well of positive energy and unbounded enthusiasm. We look for people who hold themselves and their program teams to (almost, but not quite) impossibly high standards. People with unshakeable integrity and deep wisdom & judgment. People who need to know why. People who are comfortable in ambiguity and excel at bringing order to it. People who strive to simplify and to clarify. People who are as comfortable presenting to execs as they are with their nose buried in a burndown chart.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage cross-functional development programs across Intuitive's different Business units and shared services, overseeing critical projects, and delivering against commitments.
• Help teams prioritize tasks to focus on the critical activities that drive progress and avoid being sidetracked by less important issues.
• Collaborate with the cross-functional teams to ensure the right people are updated with the right information at the right time on status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Drive required discipline and rigor in requirements analysis, design, development, and testing through good development practices and effective use of phase gates.
• Work across the organization and external partners as needed to align functional support and input for the project
• Contribute to and help lead improvement Intuitive project management processes and ongoing improvements to the way we ship new products and capabilities.
• Function as a primary point-of-contact for stakeholders across the org.