Senior Project Manager, R&D San Jose, CA

Company Overview

Company Overview - Embark on an enriching journey with PROCEPT Bio Robotics, where our vision, mission, and values guide everything we do. At PROCEPT, we put the patient first and are committed to revolutionizing treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, otherwise known as prostate gland enlargement) through innovation in surgical robotics. As our company succeeds and grows, we aim to improve the quality of life for patients, provide more effective treatment options for surgeons, and uphold the trust of our shareholders.

This includes a commitment to our People with a focus on creating an evolving landscape for your career, brimming with transformative opportunities that provide continuous career growth opportunities.

The Senior Project Manager in the Research and Development Department is the glue between cross-functional teams that drives projects from start to finish. This role is an integral part of the PROCEPT R&D team and the face of the program for the business. The project manager is responsible for developing, managing, and ensuring that the program schedule and cross-functional team (CFT) deliverables are met with the quality PROCEPT stands for.

They are involved in all aspects of the project from initial planning to technical reviews to status updates and schedule mitigation planning. The Project Manager oversees all initiatives for the program and is responsible for driving cross-functional alignment on deliverables, ensuring compliance activities are performed, managing risks, defining project scopes, objectives and timelines, and aligning resource allocation to meet needs.

This is not a "schedule jockey"— the Project Manager is expected to use their own technical expertise and judgement to help set plans, flag/misalignments, identify trade-offs when necessary, and ensure a quality deliverable is made on time.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of working as part of or with cross-functional teams including development, operations, regulatory, quality, and commercial. They will have a hands-on personality to learn, get involved, and support the program where needed. Prior engineering experience with cross-functional exposure will enable the Project Manager to be successful in planning and working with the teams.

Key skills include strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, attention to detail, willingness to dive in, ability to extrapolate, and the ability to juggle many tasks without dropping any. The successful candidate will provide great value to the teams while ensuring alignment with the broader company.

• Drive cross-functional alignment across teams through clear communication, delivering high-quality, on-schedule products; keep people focused, identify and remove blockers, ensure alignment, and propose trade-offs.
• Keep multiple independent and dependent projects on track, ensuring priorities are clearly set and next steps are clearly communicated.
• Use technical, clinical, and/or product knowledge to pressure-test proposals, requirements, and specifications, acting as a critical reviewer and sanity checker. Work with various teams to define requirements.
• Identify and manage project and technical risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure design controls and quality processes are followed and appropriate documentation is available at the right time. Proactively create and/or drive documentation ahead of deadlines.
• Organize and lead meetings to accomplish the above, while communicating to keep people aligned and on schedule.
• Actively seek out and propose ways to improve PROCEPT’s operations—ask why and why not whenever possible.

• Proven experience managing complex programs, developing program schedules, identifying risk areas and buffers. Comfortable pressure testing team members and leveraging engineering experience to optimize outcomes.
• Extensive collaboration, communication, and organizational skills across extended teams. Experience preparing and delivering executive summaries/reports.
• Familiarity with working in…