Heartflow is a medical technology company advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease, the #1 cause of death worldwide, using cutting-edge technology. The flagship product—an AI-driven, non-invasive cardiac test supported by the ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines called the Heartflow FFR
CT Analysis—provides a color-coded, 3D model of a patient’s coronary arteries indicating the impact blockages have on blood flow to the heart. Heartflow is the first AI-driven non-invasive integrated heart care solution across the CCTA pathway that helps clinicians identify stenoses in the coronary arteries (RoadMap™Analysis), assess coronary blood flow (FFRCT Analysis), and characterize and quantify coronary atherosclerosis (Plaque Analysis). Our pipeline of products is growing and so is our team; join us in helping to revolutionize precision heartcare.Heartflow is a VC-backed company that has received international recognition for exceptional strides in healthcare innovation, is supported by medical societies around the world, cleared for use in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and Canada, and has been used for more than 400,000 patients worldwide. The Senior Technical Project Manager is a key role with significant responsibility for guiding, coordinating, and overseeing multiple complex cross-team and cross-department projects and activities. This person will be an expert in the processes and procedures used to manage technical projects and release product and will be central in the facilitation of those efforts.
This role is expected to work closely with multiple teams on schedules and deliverables involved while ensuring adherence to our design controls process. This role is expected to have the background necessary to operate with a strategic view across multiple complex projects and at the release level, and will primarily focus on these large-scale project efforts within the department. This role will also involve guiding release activities and providing guidance and mentorship across teams
Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary point person for complex cross-functional projects.
- Guide and facilitate releases for involved projects.
- Oversee detailed planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of complex cross-functional projects.
- Recognize and coordinate dependencies of complex cross-functional projects, ensuring coordination occurs early and often, with an emphasis on proactive risk mitigation.
- Establish, maintain, and communicate plans for associated complex cross-functional projects to all stakeholders, including senior management.
- Communicate on behalf of engineering team contacts and other project team members when required, and represent these project efforts to broader stakeholders.
- Hold team members accountable, set clear performance standards and goals, resolve performance issues, and keep teams engaged and on task across multiple major project initiatives.
- Coach scrum teams and peers on scrum best practices. Mentor junior project managers and other team members.
- Coach product development teams on best practices; act as a spokesperson for advanced project management practices.
- Introduce new initiatives or concepts to the scrum teams andpromote best practices across project groups.
- Can represent product development in audits and is able to demonstrate traceability and compliance with written procedures for all product development efforts and releases.
- Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results, often operating with general instructions on new projects or assignments and requiring only occasional supervision.
- Ensures projects directly align with overarching program objectives and strategic goals, as defined by program leadership
Skills Needed:
- Exceptional ability to effectively conduct meetings, set action items, and keep owners accountable for their action items.
- Skilled at building detailed plans for complex software development projects, ensuring the relevant items, dependencies, and risks are proactively identified, managed, and communicated, even with limited input.
- Very good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication effectively to various audiences, including technical teams and senior management.
- Strong capability in understanding and communicating complex technical topics and issues at a high level and to non-technical stakeholders.
- Outstanding organizational skills including ability to prioritize tasks efficiently across multiple complex projects and deadlines with high level of attention to detail.
- Strategic problem solver who proactively identifies, anticipates, and mitigates risks and impediments.
- Team player with a proven ability to influence, negotiate, and build consensus across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Strongly committed to seeking ways to improve processes, and able to support and implement these improvements.
- Ability to deal with multiple projects.
- Ability to deal with multiple complex projects and demanding deadlines effectively.
Education & Experience
- A university degree with strong preference towards a software engineering background.
- Minimum of 6-8 years experience with strong preference towards experience in software and/or medical device industry. Or an advanced degree with minimum 4-6 years experience.
- Deep understanding of and extensive experience with Agile development at scale.
- Significant experience with regulated SaaS products and/or software-as-a-medical-device (SAMD) highly preferred.
- Proficiency and extensive experience working with JIRA preferred.
A reasonable estimate of the yearly base compensation range is $125,000 to $175,000, cash bonus, and stock options. #LI-Hybrid; #LI-IB1Heartflow is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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