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Senior Program Manager (Technical)

Manufacturing and Operations | Santa Cruz, CA
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Title: Senior Program Manager

Type: Hybrid to Onsite (onsite 3-5 days per week)

Overview: 

The Senior Program Manager will manage and own the full program schedule across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Clinical and Product functions to ensure execution to company milestones.

Description:

  • Manage and prepare for weekly Program meetings aligning Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Clinical and Product Functions.
  • Manage and own the full program schedule across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Clinical and Product functions.
  • Plan and coordinate with Product function to ensure company quarterly and yearly milestones are met.
  • Plan and coordinate cross functionally to ensure 3-year plan is appropriately planned and resourced for.
  • Directly project manage sub tasks to start and eventually manage a team of project managers to ensure projects remain on track.
  • Highlight, elevate, coordinate, communicate to solve around technical, system or resourcing constraints that would prevent successful execution to business goals and objectives.
  • Shift, focus and adjust resourcing and sub tasks timing and scope to ensure overall program is successful.
  • Ability to pulse overall program and slow down certain verticals while speeding up others to ensure overall program is successful.
  • Consciously motivate the team to perform beyond their expectations.
  • Own the DHF, Design Reviews and Phase Reviews with support from broader team.
  • Identify critical path and communicate critical engineering/manufacturing/ product scope/business tradeoff decisions points to executive team.
  • Jump in and get your hands dirty as necessary.

Skills:

  • Adept with Microsoft Project or other project planning software
  • Structural Heart or Implantable experience is a plus
  • Strong knowledge of Design Control
  • Clinical, submission, regulatory or product commercialization experience is a plus
  • Excellent communication abilities (oral, written, presentation)
  • Project planning, follow up and critical path identification
  • Can do attitude

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in a technical program management role
  • 5+ years within Medical Device manufacturing is required
  • Previous Engineering, R&D, or Manufacturing program management is required
  • BS Degree in Biomedical, Mechanical, Software, or relevant Engineering is required

Overview

Occam Labs is an engineering incubator targeting early-stage medical device design. We focus on cultivating cutting edge technology centered on patient value.  Our team is highly collaborative and hands-on, takes pride in iterating quickly, and believes that the best ideas can come from anywhere or any person!  We always have multiple programs in the pipeline, so as a small team, we tend to wear multiple hats on a daily basis.

Occam Labs is uniquely positioned in Santa Cruz, which we have chosen to be geographically close-to but intentionally separate from the greater SF Bay Area. This gives us access to the amazing technical talent of the bay area but in an environment that we feel is conducive to doing our best creative work.  Our office is located in a repurposed warehouse space that used to be the Wrigley Gum factory, now the funky/diverse home to several bicycle companies, many art and architecture studios, a maker space, and several biotech startups. It is adjacent to large tracts of open space with bicycle trails straight from the office doors offering access to the hills and beaches of Wilder Ranch State Park for road/mountain bicycle riding, hiking, and surfing.

Currently, our active programs at Occam Labs target catheter-based, repair devices for diseases that affect the heart. These kinds of devices present patients with compelling, minimally invasive alternatives to traditional surgical methods. For most patients, this means less pain after surgery and being able to return to normal life much more quickly. For many older patients, reducing surgical trauma can make the difference between life and death. Our current strength is in micro-scale mechanical medical devices on the cutting edge of medicine but we are constantly evolving.  The team has a collective background designing a wide variety of medical devices including cardiac devices, catheter-based devices, collapsible implants, surgical tools and robotic systems.

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