R&D Program Manager - Surgical (Medical Devices)

Location: Based at the Mervue Campus in Galway, Ireland; flexible work arrangement.

Salary: €84,880–€127,320 per year, plus eligibility for the hirify.global Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare technologies focused on improving surgical care and patient outcomes across more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Own selected engineering workstreams from definition through delivery, including scope, milestones, deliverables, ownership, and dependencies.
• Drive execution by tracking commitments, removing blockers, and closing actions, decisions, and escalations.
• Maintain the integrated view of lab and pilot-line readiness, Manufacturing transfer, priorities, risks, resources, and decisions.
• Lead workstream reviews, action tracking, decision forums, and concise leadership updates.
• Coordinate R&D, Quality, Operations, Manufacturing, technical leads, and functional owners to resolve cross-workstream risks and translate technical objectives into executable work packages.
• Provide visibility into transfer readiness, critical issues, commitments, and matters requiring leadership intervention while building disciplined execution across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Requirements

• Engineering degree or comparable technical qualification with at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Significant experience in engineering program management, R&D execution, product development, industrialization, or complex technical project leadership.
• Ability to independently lead complex engineering workstreams, create structure from ambiguity, and drive multidisciplinary teams toward delivery.
• Strong capability in integrated planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, governance, and escalation.
• Technical understanding sufficient to assess the execution implications of engineering decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
• Ability to maintain detailed workstream control while preserving a clear team-level and program-level view.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and decision-support skills.
• Proactive, hands-on leadership style with a consistent record of driving commitments through closure.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex electromechanical products, precision manufacturing, automation, Design Transfer, or manufacturing readiness.
• Medical-device experience and formal program or project-management training.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven healthcare technology environment focused on alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life.
• Flexible work arrangement based at the Mervue Campus in Galway.
• Competitive compensation and flexible benefits package.
• Short-term incentive eligibility through the hirify.global Incentive Plan.
• Employee resources and benefits designed to support different career and life stages.

Hiring process

• Apply only through official hirify.global channels and communications from approved hirify.global platforms or official @hirify.global.com addresses.
• hirify.global does not request payment or sensitive personal information during early hiring stages; suspicious communications should not be answered or opened.