Summary
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A technology-focused organization is looking for a senior project manager to drive complex R&D programs from early concepts through prototyping, validation and product readiness. The role involves building detailed plans, managing resources and risks, coordinating hardware, software and algorithm teams, and keeping ambitious projects on track in an evolving environment.
Highlights
Lead innovative R&D initiatives from concept to product readiness, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and shape delivery through strong planning, structure and leadership.
Description
As Senior Project Manager R&D, you will lead the execution of innovative, challenging R&D projects that bring our next-generation metrology solutions to market.
Working closely with our R&D team, you enable a multi-disciplinary group spanning hardware, software, and algorithm development to deliver against an ambitious roadmap.
Your role is pivotal in ensuring our technology meets customer performance requirements and delivery timelines — and you do this through structure, clear planning, and strong cross-functional leadership rather than deep domain expertise.
You'll support the R&D Manager, who drives the overall technology roadmap.What you're going to doYou will lead end-to-end R&D projects from concept through prototype and validation, all the way to productization readiness.
You build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, resource allocation, deliverables, risk; and you keep a complex, cross-functional team moving even when the path isn't fully defined yet.Your main responsibilities include:Leading end-to-end R&D projects, from concept through prototype and validation to productization.Developing and maintaining detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, deliverables, and risk management.Coordinating cross-functional project teams spanning multiple engineering disciplines.Driving alignment between technical development and customer or market requirements, in collaboration with product marketing.Working with product development programs, design & engineering, and systems engineering to deliver what's needed for productization.Monitoring progress against milestones and budget, escalating issues early and driving them to resolution.Ensuring projects comply with relevant quality and regulatory standards.Acting as a key liaison between R&D, Product Marketing, Systems Engineering, and Design & Engineering.Continuously improving how we plan and run projects, in a fast-moving, precision-focused environment.Who you'll be working withYou will work closely with the R&D Manager and a multi-disciplinary engineering team, alongside Product Marketing, Systems Engineering, and Design & Engineering.
You'll be the connective tissue between technical development and the customer and business requirements it needs to serve, building trust and alignment across teams, often without a formal reporting line to draw on.
