Senior Technical Project Manager (Hybrid) - Radiology

Senior Technical Project Manager

The Translational AI Group in the Washington University Department of Radiology is the steward of XNAT, the leading open-source imaging informatics platform used by more than 200 research and clinical institutions worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to own the day-to-day and strategic operations of the XNAT open-source project. This is a high-impact, highly visible role at the intersection of software engineering, scientific research, and community leadership.

The Sr. TPM will serve as the operational backbone of XNAT — coordinating a distributed team of internal engineers and external open-source contributors, managing release engineering, driving documentation quality, and communicating progress to funders, institutional partners, and the broader imaging informatics community.

Program and Project Management

• Own the XNAT project roadmap in coordination with engineering leadership and key stakeholders, translating strategic goals into actionable sprints and milestones.
• Plan, schedule, and track delivery across internal development teams and distributed open-source contributors using Agile and Kanban methodologies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively; drive resolution across engineering, product, and partner organizations.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-team stand-ups; maintain project health dashboards and status reports.
• Manage multiple concurrent work streams across XNAT core platform, plugins, integrations, and community initiatives.

Open Source Community Stewardship

• Act as the primary operational point of contact for the XNAT open-source developer and user community.
• Coordinate contributions from external developers and institutional partners, managing pull request workflows, code review cycles, and contribution guidelines.
• Triage community-reported issues, feature requests, and bug reports; prioritize and route to appropriate team members.
• Organize and facilitate community calls, developer meetings, and user forums; represent XNAT at relevant conferences and workshops.
• Maintain contributor documentation including onboarding guides, coding standards, and governance policies.

Release Engineering and Delivery

• Own the XNAT release process end-to-end: versioning strategy, release branching, changelog management, packaging, and distribution.
• Coordinate release readiness across engineering, QA, and documentation teams; manage feature freeze and stabilization periods.
• Maintain CI/CD pipeline health in coordination with Dev Ops; ensure release artifacts are reproducible and well-documented.
• Plan and communicate release schedules to internal stakeholders, institutional partners, and the open-source community.

Technical Roadmap Support

• Collaborate with the project director, engineering leads, and key institutional partners to define and refine the XNAT technical roadmap.
• Translate high-level strategic objectives — including NIH-funded initiatives and ARPA-H deliverables — into concrete engineering milestones.
• Track industry trends in medical imaging informatics, DICOM standards, and AI/ML tooling to inform roadmap prioritization.
• Facilitate architecture and design reviews; capture and distribute technical decisions and architecture design records.

Documentation

• Own the XNAT documentation strategy across technical (developer-facing) and end-user (researcher and clinician-facing) content.
• Plan, assign, and review documentation deliverables aligned with each release; ensure docs ship with code.
• Write and edit technical content including installation guides, API references, plugin development guides, and upgrade notes.
• Produce end-user documentation including tutorials, workflow guides, and video script outlines for the XNAT community.
• Maintain and improve the XNAT documentation site; enforce content standards and information architecture.

Stakeholder Reporting and Communications

• Prepare progress reports, milestone summaries, and deliverable documentation for NIH, ARPA-H, and other federal and institutional funders.
• Draft and distribute community-facing communications: release announcements,…