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At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.
Our Values:
- We Seek A Better Way: We pursue bold ideas, embrace complexity, and keep pushing forward.
- We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, deliver with excellence, and always find a way.
- We Are Stronger Together: We engage with empathy, align around what's best for Veracyte, and celebrate as one team.
- We Care Deeply: We show up with integrity, kindness, and respect for one another.
The Sr. Manager PMO, is accountable for the delivery of complex, cross‑functional initiatives with a significant software component, ensuring outcomes are achieved on time, within budget, within scope, and to operational standards. This role leads matrixed teams across product and software development lifecycles. The leader will establish and uphold PMO standards for delivery and will coach teams to drive predictability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop integrated project/program plans, including scope, objectives, timelines, and resource allocation for R&D, software, infrastructure, and other priority initiatives.
- Lead cross‑functional teams across sites to deliver milestones; drive crisp stakeholder communication, decision logs, and issue/risk management with clear mitigation and escalation paths.
- Monitor performance against plan (schedule, cost, resources, risk, scope) and maintain single‑source‑of‑truth artifacts and repositories.
- Partner with PMO leadership and business leaders to align product/program roadmaps to portfolio priorities, capacity, and funding; support quarterly/annual planning.
- Implement and evolve PMO frameworks, templates, and tooling.
- Conduct post‑launch reviews and lessons learned to capture outcomes and feed continuous improvement.
- Accountable for driving the delivery of projects through all stages of the product or project lifecycle.
- Coordinate with enabling teams (Security/Privacy, QA/RA, Data, IT/Cloud) to meet compliance, validation, and operational readiness requirements prior to release.
- Leverage and govern common toolchains (e.g., Jira/Confluence, Smartsheet) for planning, tracking, and reporting; produce & deliver executive‑ready status and portfolio views.
- Identify resource needs and collaborate with functional leaders to assign ownership; support vendor/SOW management where external partners are engaged.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Minimum of 8 years of project/program management experience in life sciences or adjacent domains (diagnostics, genomics, product development), with meaningful experience leading software‑centric initiatives.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in life sciences, computer science, engineering, business, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Proficiency with project and portfolio management practices and tools; experience with Jira/Confluence and Smartsheet is ideal; familiarity with Azure DevOps is a plus.
- Strong leadership, communication, and facilitation skills with the ability to influence and drive results across cross‑functional teams and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast‑paced environment, adapt to change, and bring structure to ambiguity.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering/IT, Clinical, Regulatory/Quality, Operations, and Commercial teams; comfort presenting to executive audiences.
- PMP and/or Agile/Scrum/SAFe certifications preferred.
- You are a good business partner and a good human.
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The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience, skillset, geographic location, industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
What We Can Offer You
Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.
About Veracyte
Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).
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