Job Summary
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.

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.

Who We Are
Precision Health Overview

Precision Health was launched as a Presidential Initiative at the University of Michigan in 2018. Since its initial founding, Precision Health has expanded its member services to include a de-identified database of over 5,000,000 patients, computational support including PHI compliant data processing and data storage, and the deployment of models for clinical testing.

We are committed to finding research partners and solutions to help push digital health projects from the bench to the bedside. To do this, Precision Health brings together integrative teams of world-class U-M scientists, clinicians, and engineers to develop and deploy cutting-edge digital health solutions that improve people's health.

Responsibilities*
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
Working with with cross-functional teams to prototype applications and tools
Actively participating in discussions and decisions made by the team. We rely on each other and hold each other accountable
Reporting projects updates, milestones, and opportunities to our leadership teams
Determine and document requirements
Estimate and adjust stories and sprints
Required Qualifications*
Product Manager Senior requirements:

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.
In additional to the above requirements, candidates must also possess the following qualifications:
Familiarity with AI technologies
Knowledge of Agile development methodologies
Experience developing technical products and technologies
Demonstrated ability to work with a cross-functional team to rapidly produce prototypes and iterations
Demonstrated experience working with user experience projects, A/B testing, focus groups, contextual inquiry, contextual analysis, and/or usability testing
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Quantitative analytical abilities
Strong organizational skills
Excellent technical skills
Desired Qualifications*
Experience working in a scientific research environment
Familiarity with scientific research methodologies and practices