Sr. Manager, PMO

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 its 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
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  We innovate boldly, learn from our setbacks, and are resilient in our pursuit to transform cancer care
• We Make It Happen
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  We act with urgency, commit to quality, and bring fun to our hard work
• We Are Stronger Together
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  We collaborate openly, seek to understand, and celebrate our wins
• We Care Deeply
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  We embrace our differences, do the right thing, and encourage each other

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 life cycles. 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 postlaunch 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 tool chains (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 Dev Ops 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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Pay range: $155,000 — $170,000 USD

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,…