The Role
Leads medical device R&D product development projects from initiation through completion. Maintains project plans, timelines, budgets, resources, risk analyses, testing protocols, and project documentation. Coordinates cross-functional and external teams, resolves delivery obstacles, monitors design control deliverables, ensures compliance with quality and regulatory requirements, and provides status reporting. Recommends vendors and materials while managing competing priorities and supporting product testing and data collection.
Summary Generated by Built In
Title: Sr Project Manager
This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site, full-time.
Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients?
As part of our team at Imperative Care, you can help elevate care for patients suffering from stroke and other devastating vascular diseases. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.
What You’ll Do
This position will provide core team leadership to a project core team, to drive the design, development and commercialization of innovative neurovascular products from concept/feasibility to launch.
- Provide cross-functional leadership and coordination on assigned Stroke R&D projects, drive project execution in accordance to ICI design control process & quality systems.
- Coordinate and facilitate communication among internal and external members of a team on a project to ensure effective, accurate and timely collaboration across functional areas and serve as a primary point of contact.
- Ultimately accountable for the successful delivery (on-time, on-budget and on-target) of NPD project from Initiation/Feasibility to Commercialization.
- Responsible for development and execution of detailed project plans to achieve overall project goals and objectives.
- Manage day-to-day activities of project executions, hold core team members accountable for project deliverables.
- Monitor and track project execution, project budget and resources.
- Resolve resource assignment and allocation conflicts with functional management.
- Proactively manage project risks and develop response strategies to avoid/reduce/contain risk impacts.
- Responsible for understanding and assessing project issues, lead project team to bring issues to resolution, and escalate as necessary to meet timelines.
- Provide project communication and updates to Cross-functional management and Stroke Executive Leadership Team.
- Apply product development and project management best practices, tools and techniques where appropriate.
What You’ll Bring:
- BS in Engineering or related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of increasingly responsible project management experience in the medical device industry; or a combination of education/training and experience.
- Experience working under regulated quality systems such as GMPs, ISO 9001, and the MDD
- Familiar with Design Control process
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products
- Proficiency with MS project and other project management tools
- Experience in catheter development and medical devices preferred.
- Interpersonal skills to be able to influence without direct authority over team members
- PMP certification a plus
Employee Benefits include a stake in our collective success with stock options, competitive salaries, a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, and a parental leave program.
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Salary Range: $160,000 – 181,000 annually
Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Imperative Care considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, and internal equity, as well as location, market and business considerations when extending an offer. As part of our total rewards package, Imperative Care offers comprehensive benefits including a 401k plan, health benefits, generous PTO, a parental leave program and emotional health resources.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- At least 8 years of increasingly responsible project management experience in the medical device industry
- Strong knowledge and experience with product testing and data collection
- Working knowledge of project management tools and resources
- Experience with quality systems meeting FDA QSR, ISO 13485, and MDD requirements
- Working knowledge of relevant regulatory standards for applicable products or projects
- Familiarity with design control procedures and requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team setting
- Ability to travel as required to support project goals
Imperative Care Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Posted salary bands for multiple roles are explicit and compare favorably to U.S. norms in several functions. Publicly listed ranges help anchor expectations and indicate a market‑competitive stance.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are consistently included as part of offers and total rewards. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component alongside base pay and, in some roles, bonus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company materials highlight generous PTO and a parental leave program as standard benefits. Multiple postings reiterate these time‑off elements across roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Imperative Care is a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company focused on developing the next generation of innovative solutions to address the vast and urgent needs in stroke intervention and peripheral thrombectomy. With a physician-driven approach and a culture of rapid innovation, we are working to improve every aspect of the stroke procedure with the goal of bringing patients the best care possible. We have two 510(k) cleared product platforms, as well as an expansive technology development pipeline. Follow us for updates as we work to change the way stroke is treated. For important safety and risk information, visit bit.ly/3yWkfEJ.
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