Director, Technical Program Management, Digital Innovation

How you will make an impact:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team identifying unmet patient needs and boldly designing a new category of digital products for Edwards Lifesciences. Edwards’ Advanced Innovation & Technology team is deeply dedicated to solving the complex challenges in the broader structural heart field in order to transform treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives around the world.

Edwards Lifesciences Advanced Innovation & Technology (AI&T) division has a unique opportunity for a Director of Technical Program Management, Digital Innovation to join our growing team, to be part of the team driving a new digital innovation portfolio for the future of Edwards Lifesciences. Be part of the team to build and implement the strategy for needs driven innovation within the AI&T incubator driving a multi-disciplinary project team to identify opportunities.

This highly collaborative role will partner with multiple teams that compete on numerous projects based on value proposition and feasibility of new products.

The Director, Technical Program Management will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of digital and software-based solutions within Edwards Lifesciences’ early-stage incubator. This role will be pivotal in driving cross-functional alignment, managing technical complexity, and ensuring timely delivery of innovative digital health products that complement Edwards’ cardiovascular portfolio.

• Manage multiple concurrent software development programs, ensuring delivery on time and within scope
• Identify project and schedule risks, developing complex mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional groups.
• Collaborate with product manager, UX/UI designer, and software engineers on requirements, roadmaps, and execution of project deliverables
• Communicate program status, risks, and dependencies to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Maintain detailed program documentation, including project plans, timelines, dependencies and executive readouts
• Serve as visionary for software architecture, factoring in feasibility and scalability to go from prototype phase to builds that will be validated and shipped to end-users
• Implement and champion agile methodologies and lean startup principles for rapid prototyping and iteration
• Oversee processes for data ingestion, normalization, and structuring from multiple sources (device, EMR, cloud platforms)
• Identify opportunities for leveraging AI, cloud, and data analytics in digital health solutions
• Actively contribute to generation of new digital product concepts, prioritization/screening of concepts, and de-risking through data-driven methods
• Partner with internal technology and business leaders to identify, develop and execute new product opportunities.
• Be an influencer for futuristic and disruptive thought patterns and digital technologies that can become breakthrough solutions.

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent in Engineering, Science or Business Administration with 12 years of relevant experience
  -OR
  - Master's Degree or equivalent with 10 years of relevant experience
  -OR
  - Ph.D. or equivalent with 8 years of relevant experience (Degree in Computer Science strongly preferred)
• Technical program management experience for software development projects
• Strong track record of technical program management for new software/digital product development initiatives, ideally in the healthcare domain
• Experience working in both the medical device (or life sciences) industry and digital/tech industry
• Experience developing digital products/services spanning multiple hardware platforms (e.g. desktop, tablet, phone)
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), agile frameworks, and cloud-based architectures
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong presentation skills, adaptable to various audiences ranging from design…