Senior Project Manager (Life Sciences)

Location: Wallingford, CT; other location: San Jose, CA, United States. Requires existing U.S. work authorization without current or future visa sponsorship.

Salary: $91,700–$150,800 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops tools that enable life sciences research and clinical diagnostics, supporting efforts to treat and prevent disease.

What you will do

• Lead multiple complex new product introduction, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives, primarily for Simple Western and Biologics products.
• Drive cross-functional teams through product development, verification, validation, manufacturing transfer, launch, and post-launch lifecycle activities.
• Build integrated project plans, critical paths, resource forecasts, dependencies, portfolio dashboards, and performance metrics across hardware, software, consumable, reagent, and manufacturing workstreams.
• Identify and mitigate technical, schedule, supply chain, quality, and commercialization risks; facilitate phase-gate, design, executive, and portfolio governance reviews.
• Communicate project status, risks, mitigation plans, and required decisions to executive leadership while resolving complex technical and organizational challenges through influence.
• Coach project managers and improve PMO processes, tools, and best practices using data analytics and AI-enabled 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.
• 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, lead through ambiguity and competing priorities, and work independently 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 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

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, pet, legal, and identity-protection benefits beginning on 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.
• Paid holidays, accrued paid time off, paid parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Employee resource groups, employee events, charity drives, and a culture focused on empowerment and innovation.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly by candidates; unsolicited resumes from other sources are not accepted.
• Reasonable accommodations for the application or interview process are available through HR.