Stryker—Project Manager

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Description: Work Flexibility: Hybrid What will you do: - Lead end-to-end project execution across software, embedded, firmware and hardware, from concept through commercialization and sustainment. - Partner with cross-functional teams including Software Engineering, Embedded Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Manufacturing, and Service teams to deliver projects on time and within budget. - Drive project planning, scheduling, resource management, risk mitigation, dependency tracking, and governance activities while ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs. - Coordinate Agile and Hybrid development methodologies by facilitating planning activities, release planning, backlog reviews, milestone tracking, and cross-team dependency management. - Establish and extend PMO best practices by continuously improving project management processes, reporting mechanisms, governance frameworks, and delivery metrics across the organization. - Lead stakeholder communications and executive reporting by providing regular updates on project health, timelines, risks, budget, quality, and release readiness. - Manage complex product development projects involving software, embedded systems, hardware platforms, and cloud-based solutions while ensuring collaboration across globally distributed teams. - Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards, design control processes, risk management activities, and regulatory requirements. - Drive successful product launches, release management activities, sustaining engineering initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts throughout the product lifecycle. - Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning across cross-functional teams. What you need: Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, Biomedical Engineering, or related technical discipline - experience- 8 years - 11 years; - Minimum 4+ years of experience leading complex software development projects and cross-functional engineering teams in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Hybrid environments. - Strong understanding of project management fundamentals including scope, schedule, cost, resource, risk, stakeholder, and quality management. - Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional collaboration across global teams and influencing stakeholders at multiple organizational levels. - Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. - Experience working with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or equivalent tools. Preferred Qualifications: - Ability to establish PMO governance frameworks, project metrics, portfolio reporting, and process excellence initiatives across multiple programs. - Experience working in Medical Devices, Healthcare Technology, Life Sciences, or other highly regulated industries - PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, Scrum Master, or equivalent project management certification. - Experience leading New Product Development (NPD), product commercialization, sustaining engineering, and global product release programs. - Working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), embedded development processes, hardware development lifecycle, and hardware/software integration. - Experience managing geographically distributed teams and collaborating with global engineering, quality, regulatory, and business stakeholders. Travel Percentage: 10%