Project Manager

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.
  
  

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.