Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. is focused on transforming the diagnosis and treatment of diseases through the adaptive immune system. The Project Manager, Product will lead product development and commercialization initiatives, ensuring projects are scoped, completed on time and budget, while working cross-functionally to achieve business goals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead internal projects from initiation through completion, including scope definition, planning, execution, and documentation
- Ensure alignment on project goals, rationale, and roles & responsibilities with stakeholders and leadership
- Develop and maintain project charters, timelines and work plans, driving accountability across the team
- Facilitate clear communication across project teams, internal partners, functional leaders, and external collaborators
- Identify and manage risks and issues, proactively communicating and adjusting plans as needed
- Partner with other Program and Project Managers across Adaptive to support infrastructure for project management, prioritization, communication, and institutional knowledge sharing
- Participate in cross-functional initiatives as a contributing team member
- Perform / support analysis to inform business case and resource allocation
- Define metrics for project success and determine how to measure
- Provide regular reporting on project status to manager and project team, highlighting key risks, issues, and milestones
- Contribute to the development of MRD product management strategy through product and market opportunity modeling activities
- Conduct competitive research from external sources and align with MRD product management strategy
- Collect customer research from across cross-functional teams to inform MRD product management strategy
- All other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years (or Master's Degree and 3+ years) related experience including 2+ years Project Management experience in a biomedical research, biotech, or healthcare setting
- Proven track record of successful project and/or operational delivery in a biomedical research, biotech or healthcare setting
- Demonstrated ability to succeed in a deadline-driven environment, solve problems, and prioritize tasks
- Expertise with the project management life cycle (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, closing) and change management
- Expertise with tools that facilitate project management, such as Smartsheet, LucidChart, MS Office suite (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint
- Excellent communication skills (oral, written, presenting) with the ability to build relationships across all levels of the organization
- Self-motivated and works independently, with minimal supervision
- Strong experience facilitating project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision-making ensuring alignment with internal and potentially external stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification
- Familiarity with regulatory and reimbursement pathways for diagnostic products (e.g., FDA, CLIA, CE-IVD)
- Familiarity with the real-world data/evidence lifecycle, data governance, processes, and operating models
- Experience from at least two successful commercial product launches in diagnostics
- Experience working with R&D, clinical, regulatory, marketing, and commercial teams to bring products from concept to market
- Experience performing business opportunity assessments