Senior Project Manager – Implantable Medical Devices – Neuromodulation

Houston, TX (Hybrid)             ·            Full time

About the Job

As a senior project manager at Motif Neurotech, you will be responsible for helping the team work together to ensure efficient and timely development and clinical testing of our implantable neurostimulator. By coordinating and tracking team tasks, ensuring that timelines from different functional teams align, and correctly reporting and scheduling external resources such as materials and contractors you’ll help ensure success for the Motif team.

Role Objectives:

• Define and manage the timeline to get the product through FDA approval
• Create clear reports and analyses of project status and projections and communicate timeline to management on a regular schedule
• Align multiple functional teams and key vendors/contractors on the same timeline by accurately mapping dependencies and establishing a shared understanding of critical path
• Drive a high standard of execution and accountability by removing barriers, managing workload, and engaging team members towards challenging but achievable milestones
• Help team members express proper requirements to external parties to ensure on time delivery of external work products and deliverables and incorporate those back into the timeline

Job Location: Houston, TX with possibility of remote work.

What is Motif?

Motif is a medical device startup based in Houston, Texas. We are designing and developing minimally invasive electronic solutions for serious mental health conditions. Powered by our patent-pending methods for wireless power and data transmission, our goal is to create the smallest implantable brain stimulator to treat people with mental health disorders.

We are an early-stage startup with funding from venture capital firms, grants, and private angel and founder investments.

Motif’s technology stack consists of a small implant that is wirelessly powered via magnetic fields from an external wearable transmitter, configured and controlled from a programming interface. It delivers novel stimulation therapy to cortical targets and will evolve to record biomarkers of symptoms, disease state, and therapy response.

Where are we going, and how can you help?

We are currently completing the development of our first minimally invasive neural stimulation system and preparing for future versions with additional functionality based on our platform technology.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to help us efficiently manage program execution to build that device and get it into our first clinical trial on time.

The ideal candidate will have significant previous experience in managing projects for complex medical devices that involve the intersection of multiple functional teams or roles (clinical, engineering, quality, manufacturing, etc). Experience organizing work that spans internal resources as well as external vendors and suppliers will additionally be key in successful performance of this role.

The Right Partner

Motif is being built by highly dedicated people with passion for neurotechnology, clinical product development, and putting the patient first. We are looking for people with the same energy who will thrive in a high growth – high autonomy and high accountability environment.

Does this sound like you?

• Do you want to create a future where technology enables better mental health care?
• Do you enjoy learning about and driving novel technology?
• Do you like testing hypotheses, solving problems, and moving quickly?
• Do you believe that transparency and integrity are key to team success?

If yes to the above, then you may love working with Motif.

In this role, you will:

• Define and manage the program execution to get the product through FDA approval
  • Define clear milestones and delivery dates for the team and partners to meet
• Create clear reports and analyses of project status and projections
  • Own and manage our project management tool and the development timeline
  • Set up master and sub-project gantt charts
  • Create narrative, graphic, and software tool based reports of project status, issues, and opportunities
  • Assess project risk and identify tasks or issues of uncertainty
  • Define best, expected, and worst case potential scenarios and be able to communicate them clearly and efficiently
• Setup accurate dependencies and align multiple functional teams on the same timeline
  • Communicate between teams to understand interdependent task items
  • Understand critical path and adjust team priorities to accelerate delivery and/or minimize program risk
  • Help teams in predicting and planning work optimally
  • Motivate team members by pointing them towards upcoming milestones, integration points, and deliverables
• Drive a high standard of execution and accountability by removing barriers, managing workload, and engaging team members towards challenging but achievable milestones
  • Ensure that all tasks have clearly assigned responsible parties
  • Actively engage team member through multiple communication channels to discover barriers to work and coordinate yourself and other team members to remove those barriers
  • Engage and understand and be able to map or plot employee workload to distribute task items correctly
• Help team members express proper requirements to external parties to ensure on time delivery of external work products and deliverables and incorporate those back into the timeline
  • Keep track of external vendors, contacts, and stakeholders and engage team members to get time quotes, check on status, and push on deliverables
  • Interface with manufacturing, purchasing, and others to utilize average and high-end lead times to plan for order dates and delivery times
  • Perform proper look-ahead work to plan for long-lead time services and contractors

You Will Need:

• 10+ years of managing medical device development projects
• An understanding of preclinical testing and timelines needed for development and testing of implantable medical devices
• Significant experience with cloud-based project management tools
• High accountability and a motivation to create and meet challenging goals
• Technical experience that enables you to talk to multiple people from several different technical or specialist backgrounds (engineering, clinical, quality, manufacturing, etc)
• A strong sense of integrity and a desire for transparency to keep all aware of accurate timelines, even when issues arise
• A degree or background in an engineering discipline

It is a bonus if you have:

• Experience in neurological implantable medical devices specifically
• Experience managing contract manufacturers or key vendors
• Project management certificates or credentials

Benefits

• Compensation will be a blend of salary and equity that is commensurate with experience
• Participation in our 401k plan
• Health/Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Unlimited PTO

How to Apply

Please apply here:

https://forms.clickup.com/14259175/f/dk4z7-370/JH3V63ZTPXE0CO3FG1

We are very excited to build the future of neuromodulation therapies with you. Let’s use our powers for good.

Posted on Feb 5, 2024.