{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"98290b0c16604826a7b71cd7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/98290b0c16604826a7b71cd7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/98290b0c16604826a7b71cd7","title":"Program Manager, Informatics R&D","description":"We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to support execution of cross-functional Informatics R&D programs involving software-intensive medical products, including Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) deployed on electro-mechanical systems or cloud platforms.\r\nThis role is responsible for driving disciplined execution within defined program or project scope, ensuring that work is planned, tracked, and delivered with clarity and accountability in a regulated medical device environment. The Program Manager coordinates cross-functional teams, maintains visibility into execution status, and ensures that deliverables, risks, decisions, and action items are actively managed.\r\nTo be successful the ideal candidate would be organized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and able to keep cross-functional teams aligned on priorities, commitments, execution risks, and next steps.\r\nRole Scope\r\nThe Program Manager owns execution tracking and coordination for defined projects or programs with established objectives, timelines, and constraints. This role is accountable for maintaining execution discipline, creating transparency, and ensuring that assigned work progresses with clarity, ownership, and appropriate escalation.\r\nThis includes\r\nMaintaining project or program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.\r\nCoordinating cross-functional deliverables across technical, regulatory, quality, clinical, product, and operational stakeholders.\r\nEnsuring meetings, plans, decisions, and follow-up actions are documented and driven to closure.\r\nIdentifying and solving execution gaps, open decisions, risks, and unresolved dependencies.\r\nEscalating issues in a timely and constructive manner to support on-time, on-scope execution.\r\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\r\nEssential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.\r\nManage defined Informatics R&D projects or programs involving software, systems engineering, data platforms, cloud technologies, medical device software, and related informatics capabilities.\r\nBuild and maintain project or program plans covering scope, milestones, schedules, dependencies, deliverables, risks, decisions, and action items.\r\nCoordinate program execution through regular status reporting, meeting cadence, action tracking, decision tracking, risk tracking, and issue escalation.\r\nCoordinate cross-functional deliverables across software engineering, systems engineering, data and informatics, product management, regulatory, quality, verification and validation, clinical, operations, and other stakeholder groups.\r\nLead core team meetings and planning discussions, ensuring actions, owners, decisions, risks, and open issues are documented and followed through to closure.\r\nSupport programs involving SaMD and SiMD products deployed on electro-mechanical systems or cloud platforms, ensuring execution follows applicable design controls, quality system expectations, regulatory plans, and controlled documentation processes.\r\nPartner with Systems Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality to coordinate development, verification, validation, risk management, and regulatory deliverables.\r\nTrack scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs within assigned projects or programs.\r\nSupport roadmap, release, and portfolio planning activities by providing accurate project status, schedule, risk, and dependency information.\r\nUse modern project planning, development support, and collaboration tools to create visibility, manage execution, track dependencies, and support decision-making.\r\nCommunicate project or program status, risks, issues, and recommendations clearly to core teams, functional managers, and program leadership.\r\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required for this role.\r\nExperience supporting or leading cross-functional project or program teams through product development, release planning, execution, and delivery in an R&D, engineering, technology, or product development environment.\r\nExperience managing schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, action items, and deliverables across multiple functions.\r\nExperience working in a structured or regulated product development environment with formal planning, documentation, change control, decision tracking, and cross-functional coordination.\r\nExperience supporting software-intensive products; experience with medical device software, SaMD, SiMD, embedded software, cloud-connected platforms, data platforms, imaging systems, AI/ML-enabled products, or other regulated software products is preferred.\r\nFamiliarity with medical device quality and regulatory frameworks such as ISO 13485, FDA design controls, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, cybersecurity/security risk management, or related standards and processes is preferred.\r\nExperience with Agile, hybrid Agile/Waterfall, phase-gate, design-control-based, or other structured development models.\r\nExperience with modern project planning, development support, and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, or similar systems.\r\nDemonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work, build alignment, follow up on commitments, and elevate issues appropriately.\r\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear status updates, meeting summaries, action logs, and decision records.\r\nStrong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn plans, risks, and open issues into actionable follow-up.\r\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with changing business, technical, and resource constraints.\r\nEducation and/or Experience\r\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, or a related discipline with 5 years of experience required.\r\nPrior experience in project management, program management, technical program management, product development, systems engineering, or a related role supporting complex product development required.\r\nPMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar project/program management certification preferred.\r\nEqual Employment Opportunity & Other Disclosures\r\nATEC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state or local laws. Further, ATEC will make reasonable accommodations that are necessary to comply with disability discrimination laws.\r\nFor roles based in the United States that require access to hospital facilities, must be eligible for and maintain credentials at all required hospitals, including meeting any applicable physical requirements or vaccination requirements (including the COVID-19 vaccine, as applicable).\r\nAt this time, ATEC Spine does not sponsor employment visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.\r\nSalary Range\r\nAlphatec Spine, Inc. complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate's qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $117,000 to $125,000 Full-Time Annual Salary\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Internetwork Expert","rawCompany":"internetwork expert","city":"Carlsbad","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T00:39:04.077Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Program Manager, Informatics R&D","description":"We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to support execution of cross-functional Informatics R&D programs involving software-intensive medical products, including Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) deployed on electro-mechanical systems or cloud platforms.\r\nThis role is responsible for driving disciplined execution within defined program or project scope, ensuring that work is planned, tracked, and delivered with clarity and accountability in a regulated medical device environment. The Program Manager coordinates cross-functional teams, maintains visibility into execution status, and ensures that deliverables, risks, decisions, and action items are actively managed.\r\nTo be successful the ideal candidate would be organized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and able to keep cross-functional teams aligned on priorities, commitments, execution risks, and next steps.\r\nRole Scope\r\nThe Program Manager owns execution tracking and coordination for defined projects or programs with established objectives, timelines, and constraints. 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