Senior R&D Project Manager
3 days ago
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Experteer Overview In this role you drive end-to-end software development projects for commercial release, coordinating cross-functional teams to meet scope, schedule, quality, and business goals. You will oversee planning, governance, and execution across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid models, ensuring predictable delivery and transparent risk management. You contribute to improving engineering delivery, release readiness, and stakeholder visibility within a global Ru0026amp;D context. This is a senior, individual-contributor position focused on execution discipline and strategic project governance. You will work closely with engineering, product management, and program management to shape successful product delivery. Compensaciones / Beneficios • Lead end-to-end software development projects for commercial release, ensuring scope, schedule, quality and business objectives are met • Develop and maintain plans, schedules, risk/issue logs, resource plans, decision logs, and status reports • Manage projects across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid models with appropriate governance and execution practices • Facilitate planning, release, risk reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder alignment meetings • Define, track and communicate project KPIs and delivery metrics for transparent health updates • Establish and maintain project governance, cadence, escalation paths, and release readiness reviews • Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and resource constraints with recommendations • Drive accountability across cross-functional teams to resolve blockers and meet deliverables • Ensure alignment with SDLC processes, governance, quality requirements, and standards • Represent Engineering PM in cross-functional forums and promote clear communication of risks and trade-offs • Support improvements to PM practices, metrics, templates, and reporting • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance predictability, efficiency, and visibility • Serve as a senior PM resource and role model for execution discipline and stakeholder communication Responsabilidades • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or related field • 7+ years of experience managing software development, Ru0026D, or new product development projects • Experience managing software projects for commercial release • Proven ability to manage projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches • Strong understanding of SDLC processes from requirements to release • Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment without direct authority • Ability to manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, and stakeholder expectations • Clear communication of status, risks, options, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences • Strong facilitation, problem-solving, decision management, and escalation skills • Experience supporting global or distributed engineering teams • Proficiency with PM and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, MS Project, Confluence, SharePoint) Requisitos principales •