Senior Project Manager - Clinical

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree (MS, PhD, or equivalent) preferred.

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in clinical project management, with at least 3 years focused on medical device development.

Demonstrated experience managing pre-clinical, early feasibility, and pivotal clinical studies.

In-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements governing medical device clinical trials (FDA, ISO 14155 (GCP), etc.).

Project Management: Advanced organizational, planning, and prioritization skills; proficiency with project management tools and methodologies.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

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Primary Function of Position:

The Senior Project Manager, Clinical Workstream, plays a pivotal role in supporting the clinical development and clinical affairs components of

Future Forward

BU. This position is central to guiding the planning and execution of pre-clinical studies, early feasibility human studies, and pivotal studies within a medical device development framework. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for providing both strategic leadership and tactical execution across all phases of clinical research, ensuring the successful delivery of clinical objectives that directly influence the advancement of innovative medical devices.

An ideal candidate would provide strategic direction by translating the Future Forward initiative’s vision into actionable clinical development roadmaps, setting priorities, and aligning resources. Tactically, the role involves hands-on management of daily project operations, troubleshooting study execution challenges, coordinating site activities, and ensuring milestones are achieved on time and within scope. Examples include developing bottom’s up schedules, identifying critical path, risk registers and conducting detailed project reviews to drive continuous improvement.

Roles & Responsibilities:

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at

Intuitive

. As a global leader in

robotic-assisted surgery

and

minimally invasive care