Senior R&D Project Manager

Summary:

You will serve as Senior R&D Project Manager, playing a leadership role in maintaining & developing kidney stone treatment systems, accountable for leading multi-disciplinary teams in developing products that must come together and perform as a medical device system. You will plan for long-view work, pursue acute problems as they arise, define schedules, share information widely with team members and stakeholders, and foster healthy, productive teams. You’ll help us pursue ‘No stone left behind’! 

Your expertise in device, capital, firmware, and/or software product development will facilitate your success. Your excellent PM skills, predictive/waterfall and adaptive/scrum work management methods, collaborative approaches, attention to social cues, will keep everyone engaged and productive. Work examples: CVAC device, CVAC vision system, sustaining improvements and software iterations. You have led teams from concept to launch.

In This Role, You Will:

• Promote transparency through excellent written and verbal communication skills – routinely provide visibility on project state to team, peers, and Senior Staff, including decisions, dependencies, issues, risks and schedule.
• Develop alignment among contributors and stakeholders on scope, effort, value and ordering of work to achieve program goals. Contributors include engineering, operations, quality, commercial, finance, regulatory and clinical.
• Lead the program. Guide internal and external team members to define outcomes, coordinate efforts, establish metrics and adapt to achieve goals.
• Establish relationships with peers at all levels to promote positive work habits, sharing of work and knowledge
• Facilitate software, firmware and engineering development through ordering work, defining Done, backlog prioritization, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that prevent the team from delivering on goals. Foster communication and decision-making to either persevere forward to change the path.
• Contribute to process improvements and best practices tailored to Calyxo’s culture to develop a best-in-class project management infrastructure
• Handle abstract development decisions with risk-based decision-making, contingency planning, and tradeoff analyses.

Who You Will Report To:

• Director, Program Management, R&D

Requirements:

• Education: S Engineering/Science degree or equivalent required
• Minimum 8 years total experience; medical device development experience strongly preferred
• Work location: Pleasanton, CA office
• Travel: ~10%
• Full time employment
• Hard Skills: experience with full product development lifecycle for hardware/software/firmware systems. Familiarity with FDA submission process, ISO 13485, ISO 14971 and QSR requirements. Proficiency in MS Office, Atlassian/JIRA, Monday.com and other PM tools.
• Soft skills: strong facilitation and communication skills across technical and executive audiences. Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority. Naturally accountable and organized.
• Physical requirements - Must be able to sit for up to 8 hours/day and operate standard office equipment.
• Compliance with relevant county, state, and Federal rules regarding vaccinations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Optional, list if any, otherwise delete this section if not applicable.

What We Offer:

At Calyxo, you will be part of a knowledgeable, high-achieving, experienced and fun team.  You will work in a diverse work environment with experienced, proven leaders and have an opportunity to shape our company culture.  You will experience constant learning and dynamic challenges to help you grow and be the best version of yourself. 

We also offer an attractive compensation package, which includes:

• A competitive base salary of $150,000 - $175,000 and variable incentive plan
• Stock options – ownership and a stake in growing a mission-driven company
• Employee benefits package that includes 401(k), healthcare insurance and paid vacation