Manager Technical Program Mgmt

About Dexcom:

Dexcom, Inc. empowers people to take control of diabetes through innovative continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has emerged as a leader of diabetes care technology. By listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, Dexcom simplifies and improves diabetes management around the world.

Functional Description:

Manages people who lead cross-functional teams that are focused on the delivery of a product or computer-based system from research and development to release for customers. Develops, defines and executes project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables. Identifies needed resources for projects, defines and assigns major project roles. Monitors the product/program/project from initiation through delivery, interfacing with external customers or field-based employees on technical matters, as needed. Assigns and monitors work of project/program management staff, providing technical support and direction. This position is most common in a matrix type organization and has overall product/program/project management responsibility, i.e. coordinating efforts leading to product release. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Manage and drive end-to-end program management activities for complex software projects from concept to FDA filing, and commercialization.
• Develop, track and report on project plans, detailed project schedules, critical path analysis, project and product risks, change control requests, and project deliverables to management and cross functional teams.
• Demonstrate ability, confidence, and strong communication skills to lead project and status meetings with internal cross-functional teams, executives and external partners.
• Coordinate activities/tasks and resources across all departments including, Marketing, Technical team, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Operations. Provide guidance to these groups on priorities and schedules.
• Responsible for compliance to medical device design control and product development process for all aspects of the program.
• Positively motivate teams to ensure successful project completion.
• Other duties as assigned

Management

• Assures that individual and team goals are developed and measured for each team member
• Oversees projects delivery while supporting a unified culture, vision and strategy
• Prioritizes work based on project needs, task dependencies, team capacities and schedules
• Coordinates with other functional leaders on product roadmap and feature sets
• Identifies and resolves issues to schedule, resources, scope and risk assessment

Required Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical and business information clearly and effectively through informal and formal documents, reports, and presentations to senior management.
• Previous management experience, team building and team leadership skills required
• Must possess excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to develop and manage a project with a detailed schedule, establish priorities, work to deadlines and be able to control several projects with various technologies and in various stages of development.
• Proven success leading complex software development projects in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.
• Knowledge of the product development process.
• Knowledge and experience working with software development tools such as Jira that provide bug/issue tracking and project management functions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, and Visio is required.
• Must be highly collaborative and able to work in a team-based environment.
• Ability to manage conflict professionally, strong “can do” attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of medical device design control requirements is preferred.
• Proficiency in Confluence is preferred.

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree with 8-12 years of industry experience. 2-5 years of previous management or lead experience.

Travel Required:

• Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

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