The Project Manager is the point person to lead cross-functional core teams, and to represent them to the various stakeholders. (S)he will provide guidance to cross-functional teams in applying Lean and Agile practices within a development context.
The Project Manager remains closely aligned to senior management (CEO, CSO, CTO, VP Strategy) to ensure effective and efficient collaboration and communication. This leader will be a key contributor to developing a high performing product development organization. (S)he will be directly accountable for building Spiden’s future Program Management Office.

• Facilitate teamwork and collaboration to deliver results per customer requirements
• Be the voice of the teams; inspire and motivate team members to continuously improve ways of working
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders on planning events, demonstrations, and retrospectives
• Guide teams in decomposing complex work items to enable Agile team backlogs
• Build and maintain the backlogs in collaboration with product management
• Deploy metric-based progress tracking
• Train and coach cross-functional teams in Agile product development methodologies
• Build Spiden’s Program Management function: Identify needed skills and competences, establish a hiring roadmap, identify and hire suitable talent

Project manager must haves:

• Personality: highly reliable and committed to deadlines, very execution oriented
• Skill: ability to influence organisation towards high adherence to execution plan - very good at situational leadership btw. supporting coach and beating the drums or escalation
• Has lead and completed cross-functional/cross-domain core teams over multiple years and projects of >5mCHF,
• Has ideally lead multiple project managers (solid lines)
• Has formal project management certifications (PMP, Agile, SAFe, etc.) and has implemented such in organisations before
• Has ideally worked in medtech/pharma or similar, ideally driving cross-functional high tech innovation projects