Technical Project Manager III

$123,700 - $154,600/Yr

Allen Institute - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Seattle, WA

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Technical Project Manager III at the Allen Institute for Cell Science plays a crucial role in managing and enhancing the efficiency of technical engineering and UX efforts. This position involves overseeing the development, migration, and improvement of a cloud-based ecosystem that supports laboratory information systems, data analysis, and public-facing tools. The ideal candidate will collaborate with multiple teams to ensure projects align with the Institute's research and development goals, facilitating communication between engineering and scientific teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project scoping with engineering, computational, and scientific stakeholders to define goals and deliverables.
• Manage intake of project requests and gather requirements associated with the requests.
• Manage the development, implementation, and rollout of internal and external releases and maintain a quarterly roadmap for projects.
• Proactively identify at-risk projects, implement mitigation strategies, and reduce scope-creep.
• Communicate schedules, dependencies, issues, and risks across teams.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive notes, reports, and presentations and provide regular project updates to stakeholders at various levels.
• Partner closely with scientific program managers to ensure technical projects align with scientific priorities.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication between software engineering, UX, computational, and experimental teams to sustain focus, ensure on-time delivery, and drive project momentum.
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in processes and software products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, relevant scientific field, or project management; or equivalent combination of degree and experience.
• Minimum of 3 years direct experience in technical project management overseeing multiple, simultaneously ongoing engineering projects at different life cycle stages.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, Miro) and Microsoft Office.
• Proven track record of success in creating and maintaining useful project plans amidst complexity and uncertainty.
• Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Minimum of 5 years direct experience in technical project management overseeing multiple, simultaneously ongoing engineering projects at different life cycle stages.
• Project management experience in a scientific research environment setting (life sciences, biotech, pharma or healthcare sector).
• Demonstrated experience with back-end and front-end software design patterns.
• Technical and analytical skills with a focus on problem-solving and minimizing bottlenecks.
• Passion for new technology and a user-focused approach.
• Creative problem-solving skills.
• Coding experience (e.g., React JS/TS, Python, Java, etc.).
• Experience with LIMS software.
• Agile certification.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance