Senior Project Manager (Life Sciences)

Location: San Jose, California, United States. The position requires work authorization in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Salary: $100,100–$164,450 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops tools for life sciences research and clinical diagnostics to support disease treatment and prevention.

What you will do

• Lead multiple complex new product introduction, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across the ASD portfolio, primarily for Simple Western and Biologics products.
• Drive cross-functional teams through product development, verification, validation, manufacturing transfer, launch, post-launch activities, and lifecycle management.
• Develop integrated project plans, critical paths, resource forecasts, dependency management, portfolio dashboards, and metrics across hardware, software, consumable, reagent, and manufacturing workstreams.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate technical, schedule, supply chain, quality, and commercialization risks; facilitate phase-gate, design, executive, and portfolio governance reviews.
• Provide executive-level project status, risk, mitigation, and decision communications while partnering with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, and other functions.
• Use data analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve execution, forecasting, reporting, and portfolio visibility; coach project managers and improve PMO processes and tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, systems engineering, life sciences, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of technical project or program management experience in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, analytical instrumentation, or a related industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent NPI programs and leading cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle.
• Experience collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain functions.
• Experience presenting project status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
• Experience working in a regulated quality environment such as ISO 9001, ISO 13485, GMP, or comparable product development controls.
• Strong technical aptitude, critical-path, dependency, risk, resource, stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, data-visualization, facilitation, written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority, translate complex technical information into business recommendations, and lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, and resource constraints.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining alignment across distributed teams and sites.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience leading life science instrument or analytical instrument launches.
• Experience with microfluidics, fluidics, cartridges, consumables, capillary electrophoresis, protein characterization, assay development, or hardware-intensive products.
• Experience with design reviews, systems engineering, verification and validation, manufacturing transfer, pilot builds, and production scale-up.
• PMP or comparable project/program management certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, pet, legal, and identity protection insurance benefits from day one.
• 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, HSA, FSA, and dependent care FSA.
• Mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, and internship programs.
• Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives.
• Paid holidays, accrued paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Culture focused on empowerment, innovation, belonging, and employee ideas.