Position Overview

Do you want to be part of the team that develops the next generation of medical imaging technology?  Are you a super-organized person that enjoys helping keep the team on-track?  If so, you’ve come to the right place!  We’re looking for a project manager who can develop and manage multiple projects in an engineering and biomedical organization.  Our ideal candidate is an expert project manager who is comfortable driving projects with a diverse team of engineers, scientists, regulatory and quality experts, and external partners.  You will work as an individual contributor and report to the Executive Vice President of Engineering.  Your near-term goals are to assume ownership of active projects and drive them to completion.  In the long term, you will work with functional leads, department managers, and senior management to ensure future and current projects are being planned and executed well.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience Requirements

Required

• At least 5 years’ experience as a project manager doing new product development.
• Demonstrate experience managing engineering development or product development projects.
• Expert level proficiency developing, implementing, and maintaining Agile and waterfall project and task management systems.
• Experience developing and managing budgets and schedules, developing project scope documents, and coordinating/managing project delivery, including team assignments and technical quality.

Preferred

• Experience managing projects for medical device development.
• Experience as a Scrum master.
• Experience using Notion for task and project management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (In addition to those listed, other duties may be assigned.)

• Centralize and maintain project management for all company disciplines: engineering, translational research, human study projects, and grant application management.
• Collaborate with functional leads, department managers, and senior management to formalize requirements, project scope, milestones, and then drive overall schedule.
• Identify and manage project risks and manage changes to scope, schedule, and cost.
• Monitor performance to meet stakeholder requirements and update management on changes to timeline and scope.
• Coordinate project activities with external partners by driving communication.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge and experience in planning, prioritization, and organizational skills. Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Works with limited supervision.
• Adheres to Magnetic Insight’s policies and procedures.

Reports to: CEO & dotted line to EVP Engineering

Classification: Full-time, salaried, exempt

Schedule: Regular full-time working hours, ability to work evening hours and overtime as needed.

Workplace Location: This position is on-site full-time at our office in Alameda, CA. After the 90-day introductory period, partial remote work may be granted as agreed upon with the employee’s manager.

About Magnetic Insight

Magnetic Insight is a venture-backed and government (NIH) grant-funded biotech startup that’s bringing to market the first new medical imaging technology in 40 years.  Our mission is to establish clinical Magnetic Particle Imaging as a powerful tool for monitoring the treatment of solid tumor cancers and inflammatory diseases.  To succeed, we’re bringing together a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and specialists located primarily in the San Francisco East Bay Area, CA. We are backed by a pioneering group of investors and VCs, including Celesta and 5am Ventures. We are focusing on technology development in this funding round, so we’ll continue to fundraise as we complete deliverables and pass milestones.  We are looking for talented, agile, and hardworking people, who want to collaborate and innovate with a tight knit team and embrace the start-up rollercoaster ride.

Magnetic Insight’s Core Values:

• Customer Focus: We succeed as a company only when we satisfy our customers.
• Resourcefulness: We prioritize, focus, and act creatively with the resources available.
• Clarity: Clear leadership, vision, and goals are necessary for the organization to operate at its best.
• Collaboration: We achieve synergy and excellence when team members have a safe space to speak and contribute.
• Empiricism: We use data and apply quantitative reasoning when making decisions and developing processes.

Magnetic Insight’s Culture

In December, our team met to discuss our existing culture and what makes us unique. Some of the attributes mentioned were:

• There is a sense of belonging and ideas are welcomed by anyone.
• We truly must collaborate – and we do! We rely heavily on each other as resources.
• The company accepts and encourages prioritizing your family and personal health.
• There is an unusual level of empathy.
• Employees are given structure with directives from management, but employees are relied upon to prioritize themselves.
• Mistakes aren’t punished. No one really points the finger. We see how to fix it and move on.
  • Comment from management: We want to continually evaluate this to make sure these qualities aren’t falling apart under stress.
• Leadership listens, accepts feedback, and implements change. They show appreciation.
• As a small company, we’re learning as we go and adjusting along the way.
• We are on board with riding the swings, embracing the challenges, and doing tasks that aren’t always fun in order to get the job done.

And finally: we have a real shot at actually helping patients.

Magnetic Insight’s Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and 85% for dependents
• HSA, FSA, commuter benefits
• HSA employer contributions
• Waiver stipends for those not utilizing medical benefits
• Employer-paid life insurance/ AD&D up to your annual salary
• Long-term disability coverage
• 10 paid holidays, 3 weeks of vacation, and 6 days sick leave
• 2 week paid sabbatical leave after every 3 years of service
• 2 weeks paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 401(K) employer match
• Equity stock option grants
• Personalized financial planning services from the provider Origin
• Cell phone allowance
• Shuttle to/from BART and the Ferry Terminal to our Alameda facility provided by Harbor Bay Business Park

If interested, please submit a resume and cover letter answering the questions of what you’re looking for in the role and why Magnetic Insight to careers@magneticinsight.com.

Our Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, and for employees working in California, ancestry, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected medical condition, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.