Principal Program Manager

Overview  

HighRes Biosolutions is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our team and lead our program management office.  The ideal candidate will have previous program management experience and will be comfortable working with complex technical initiatives that have both hardware and software components.  This role includes management responsibilities for project managent and technical writing teams.   

HighRes Biosolutions is a revolutionary laboratory automation leader committed to improving human health through life science robotics. Our technologies enable scientists to develop life saving medicines, treatments, and therapies while maximizing resources and increasing output. At HighRes, we foster innovation, embrace diversity and value the opportunity to hear every team member’s voice, ideas, and input, contributing to our continued success.  

Responsibilities  

• Clear identification and tracking of success criteria and validation plans for initiatives 

• Cross organization alignment, coordination and prioritization on all aspects of complex hardware and software initiatives 

• Tracking and reporting on initiative risks, status, blockers, and needs 

• Management of project managers and technical writers 

• Tracking of resource utilization, materials and interfacing with procurement/commercial/finance teams as needed  

Requirements  

• B.S. degree 

• Bring 8+ years of experience in a program manager role 

• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly 

• History of experience managing complex projects with hardware and software aspects 

• Experience communicating status to C-level executives 

Nice to Haves 

• Experience running a PMO office 

• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings 

• Engineering background 

• Experience with electromechanical and/or robotics products 

About HighRes  

We design and build innovative robotic systems and laboratory devices used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and academic research laboratories. Our work helps scientists accelerate drug discovery, high throughput genotyping, siRNA screening, next-generation sequencing sample prep, biorepository science and molecular diagnostics with highly flexible, expandable, and modular integrated systems, bench-top devices and consumables that are easily configured (and reconfigured) to create research environments conducive to achieving breakthrough results.