United States onlyThe Senior Manager, Product Safety Risk Management provides enterprise leadership for product safety risk management across the medical imaging software portfolio, ensuring a consistent, compliant, and risk-based approach from concept through post-market surveillance. This role owns the product safety risk management framework, establishes governance and decision quality across programs, and ensures alignment with ISO 14971, applicable regulatory requirements, design controls, usability engineering, and cybersecurity risk management.
In addition to leading and developing safety risk management professionals, the Senior Manager serves as the senior subject matter expert for high-risk and complex product decisions, influences senior cross-functional stakeholders, and represents the organization in audits, inspections, and regulatory interactions related to product safety. Success in this role is reflected in sustained inspection readiness, timely and high-quality risk decisions, and effective detection and response to emerging post-market safety signals.
Essential Job Duties
Owns the product safety risk management framework and governance model, ensuring consistent application of ISO 14971-aligned practices across the portfolio and throughout the product lifecycle.
Defines, implements, and continuously improves policies, procedures, templates, tools, and quality system controls that enable effective and scalable product safety risk management.
Leads safety risk strategy for medical imaging portfolio and complex programs, providing decision support to cross-functional leaders and ensuring timely, risk-based escalation and resolution.
Ensures product safety risk management is fully integrated with design controls, software development lifecycles, usability engineering, cybersecurity risk management, verification and validation, and post-market surveillance.
Oversees the quality and completeness of risk management files and related documentation, including hazard analyses, FMEAs, fault tree analyses, benefit-risk analyses, residual risk evaluations, and Health Hazard Evaluations.
Leads post-market safety activities, including safety signal assessment, Health Hazard Evaluations, CAPAs, and cross-functional response planning, to ensure effective monitoring of product risk performance.
Contributes product safety risk management content for regulatory submissions, design changes, and product lifecycle assessments.
Serves as the primary product safety risk management leader for audits, inspections, and regulatory interactions, ensuring sustained inspection readiness and effective response to findings and inquiries.
Builds organizational capability by leading and developing talent, and establishing performance metrics to monitor the effectiveness of product safety risk management processes and product performance.
Promotes a culture of patient safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications
8–10 years of progressive experience in medical device or healthcare technology, including significant responsibility for product safety risk management in regulated environments.
Demonstrated expertise applying ISO 14971 to software-based medical devices across pre-market and post-market phases, including governance of risk management processes.
Strong understanding of design controls and their integration with usability engineering, cybersecurity risk management, software development lifecycles, and post-market surveillance.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead cross-functional decision making, and communicate complex risk issues with clarity and judgment.
Demonstrated experience leading, managing, or developing professionals in safety risk management or closely related quality and regulatory functions.
Technical Skills
Advanced knowledge of related standards and regulations, including ISO 13485, IEC 62304, IEC 62366-1, 21 CFR Part 820, the Canada Medical Devices Regulations, and EU MDR 2017/745.
Experience supporting Software as a Medical Device and modern software development environments, including agile methodologies and cloud-based solutions.
Relevant advanced training or certification in medical device risk management, quality systems, or regulatory affairs.
Experience with enabling technologies and work management platforms such as Jira, Aha!, Xray Test Management, and Microsoft 365 preferred.
Supervisory Skills
Builds and develops high-performing teams through clear expectations, coaching, performance feedback, and career development.
Exercises sound judgment and operates effectively with a high degree of independence in a complex, matrixed environment.
Drives accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across functions while maintaining a strong focus on patient safety and product quality.
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or another scientific or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
Advance training or certification in medical device risk management, quality systems, or regulatory affairs preferred
Experience with agile development and cloud solutions preferred.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Office-based, hybrid, or remote environment depending on location.
Travel: ~10%
Compensation
The salary range provided in this job posting is intended to reflect the general market value for the position. The actual salary offered may vary based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and the specific requirements of the role. This range may also be subject to change as market conditions evolve. We encourage open communication throughout the interview process to discuss compensation expectations. For base-salary + commission sales roles, the range represents On-Target Earnings.
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$145,806.80 - $218,710.20 (USD)Benefits
The benefits described represent the current offerings at our organization, however, benefits are subject to change and may vary by location and employment status. We strive to provide a comprehensive benefits package that supports our employees’ health, wellness, and financial goals. Please note that benefits may be discussed in more detail during the hiring process.
Remote first / work from home culture
Flexible vacation to help you rest, recharge, and connect with loved ones
Paid leave benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401k retirement savings plan
Infertility benefits
Tuition reimbursement, life insurance, EAP – and more!
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