Senior Project Manager - Digital Health

Equally rewarding and demanding, this is a non-traditional position where the scope of knowledge and responsibility required exceed typical Senior Project Manager roles. Enthusiasm for learning, problem solving, entrepreneurship, and a self-starter personality are key traits for success at Precision Health. Our Senior Project Managers work with researchers, technical teams, and clinical champions to define, organize, manage, and facilitate the deployment of AI projects into Michigan Medicine. The ability to think analytically, problem solve, work as part of a close-knit team, and a strong interest in getting work done is required of anyone taking on this role.

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

Our Senior Project Managers are responsible for the day-to-day ownership of our project portfolio at all stages of the product life cycle. Our Project Managers run their projects as a business - managing resource effort, delivery schedules, internal governance committees, technical teams and clinical partners on a daily basis. Because of their expertise, our Senior Project Managers are the 'go to' people for all questions pertaining to their projects and associated research.

The core responsibilities of Precision Health Senior Project Managers can be grouped into the following categories :

• Solving complex technical issues : We work closely with dynamic and cross-functional teams including DataOps, MLOps, Model Deployment, and Clinical Integration. All of these groups have various technical needs and deliverables in our projects. It's important that the person in this role can speak to the technologies used by these groups and ask the right questions to help solve problems when they arise.
• Streamlining processes : The world of AI and digital health is moving quickly. The way that we develop and deploy applicable research is changing as well. Our Senior Project Managers are adept at developing and documenting new processes to ensure that we are delivering our work as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Leading cross-functional teams : Our diverse project teams include Researchers, Data Operations (DataOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Data Scientists, Clinicians, and governance committees. To keep these teams on track, our Senior Project Managers are responsible for creating project timelines, tracking measurable progress against timelines, identifying critical paths, alerting leadership of any issues that need correction, getting additional resources when needed, and communicating status to the leadership team.
• Additional responsibilities include :

Managing projects from concept through delivery in agile environments

The Precision Health Project Manager Senior must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 5 years of progressive Project Management experience. They should also possess the following qualifications :

Experience working in a scientific research environment and familiarity with scientific research methodologies and practices are also desirable.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer.

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