At Capstan Medical, we’re building one of the most exciting and innovative companies in medtech—developing a first-of-its-kind robotic platform for minimally invasive heart valve treatment. Our team combines surgical robotics, catheter-based delivery, and next-generation implants to transform complex procedures into safer, lower-stress solutions for patients and clinicians alike. As a highly collaborative, hands-on team, we move fast, wear multiple hats, and believe the best ideas can come from anyone.
Based in Santa Cruz, our unique workspace blends cutting-edge Bay Area innovation with a lifestyle-driven environment near trails, beaches, and open space—creating the perfect place to do meaningful, career-defining work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and actively manage detailed project schedules (MS Project) with dependencies, resources and critical path on a weekly basis
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, core team meetings, and technical working meetings
- Ensure full design control compliance: traceability matrices, design reviews, DHF completeness, and on time deliverables for critical phase gates
- Drive mitigation plans and escalate when needed
- Prepare clear updates, dashboards and decision materials for cross-functional program and leadership reviews
- Support vendor selection, and ongoing supplier management for key components and capital equipment
- Mentor junior project leads (engineering) and help instill project management discipline across the organization
- Work on site to keep a pulse in a fast moving environment
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of project management experience in medical devices; Class III implantable and/or robotic/capital
- Proven track record of shipping at least one cardiovascular implantable or robotic/capital system through FDA submission or approval
- Familiar with design controls (21 CFR 820.30, ISO 13485), risk management (ISO14971) and DHF maintenance
- Exceptional organization skills and attention to detail
- Strong influencing skills with no direct authority
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or life sciences
Preferred Qualifications:
- Direct experience with structural heart valves (TAVR or TMVR) or robotic catheter delivery systems
- Core team lead or experience leading cross-functional projects
- Experience with early stage clinical trial studies (First In Human, Early Feasibility, etc)
- Prior Series B/C startup experience with successful exits or acquisitions
You Will Thrive If:
- You’re obsessed with schedules, risk management and keeping teams marching in lockstep
- You stay calm when timelines slip and can make recommendations on how to recover them
Why Join Us:
- We offer a fun, fast-paced, collaborative environment where you will be working on transformational technologies in the cardiac healthcare space that can make a meaningful impact for patients
- We offer outstanding benefits with medical, dental, and vision covered at 100% for you and your family, as well as flex time off
- We thrive in our work-hard, play-hard environment. Bring your bike or running shoes if you’d like or just be ready to enjoy a fun office outing. We enjoy time inside the office and out!
Skills Required
- 5+ years of project management experience in medical devices; Class III implantable and/or robotic/capital
- Proven track record of shipping at least one cardiovascular implantable or robotic/capital system through FDA submission or approval
- Familiarity with design controls (21 CFR 820.30) and ISO 13485
- Familiarity with risk management (ISO 14971) and DHF maintenance
- Exceptional organization skills and attention to detail
- Strong influencing skills with no direct authority
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or life sciences
- Direct experience with structural heart valves (TAVR or TMVR) or robotic catheter delivery systems
- Core team lead or experience leading cross-functional projects
- Experience with early stage clinical trial studies (First In Human, Early Feasibility, etc.)
- Prior Series B/C startup experience with successful exits or acquisitions
What We Do
Capstan Medical is a developer of robotic-enabled, minimally invasive solutions for treating structural heart disease. By merging surgical robotics with catheter-based technology and next-generation implants, the company aims to provide a patient-optimized approach to repair and replace heart valves, offering a significantly less invasive alternative to traditional open-heart surgery to improve patient outcomes and reduce recovery times.
