Technical Project Manager, Capital

Ventaris Surgical is seeking a technically capable Technical Project Manager to lead development of complex medical capital equipment, with the potential to support related single-use device programs as business needs evolve.

About Ventaris Surgical

Ventaris Surgical is a venture backed medical device company headquartered in San Carlos, CA, founded in 2024 and backed by leading MedTech investors following a $30 million Series A financing. We are developing a next generation ureteroscopic system designed to help surgeons achieve complete kidney stone treatment in a single procedure, reducing the physical and cognitive burden of the procedure and giving patients a stronger path to recovery.

Kidney stone disease is one of the world's most common urologic conditions. Nearly 1 in 10 people will experience a kidney stone in their lifetime, and more than 500,000 people undergo kidney stone surgery in the U.S. every year. The pain is often rated comparable to or worse than childbirth, and roughly half of patients live with the fear that their stone will return. Today's surgical tools make it difficult for surgeons to consistently achieve complete stone clearance. We are changing that.

About the Role

Ventaris Surgical is seeking a technically capable Technical Project Manager to lead development of complex medical capital equipment, with the potential to support related single-use device programs as business needs evolve. This hands-on role will translate product objectives into executable plans and drive cross-functional deliverables through design, verification, regulatory submission, manufacturing transfer, and commercialization.

The ideal candidate combines strong program management with enough technical depth to engage directly with engineering teams, suppliers, test laboratories, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own integrated project plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, and deliverables for assigned product programs.

• Lead cross-functional execution across mechanical, electrical, software, firmware, systems, clinical, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory functions.

• Maintain visibility into the critical path and escalate decisions, resource constraints, supplier issues, and technical risks before they affect major milestones.

• Drive capital equipment development, including system architecture, subsystem integration, prototypes, test assets, verification, configuration control, serviceability, and cost targets.

• Coordinate applicable compliance activities, including electrical safety, EMC, usability, software lifecycle, risk management, and preparation for external testing.

• Lead or support related single-use device programs, including requirements, design documentation, performance testing, biocompatibility, sterilization, packaging, and system compatibility.

• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to ensure timely completion of design-control, risk-management, traceability, verification, validation, and submission deliverables.

• Manage external engineering firms, contract manufacturers, suppliers, and test laboratories against defined schedules, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate product readiness for integration testing, physician evaluations, animal studies, clinical use, demonstrations, pilot builds, and manufacturing transfer.

• Provide concise, decision-oriented program updates to R&D and company leadership.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biomedical engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 5+ years of medical device product development experience, including meaningful project or program leadership responsibility.

• Experience leading cross-functional projects through medical device design controls.

• Experience with complex electromechanical or capital-equipment systems, including subsystem and system-level integration.

• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, risks, suppliers, and executive status reporting.

• Strong written communication, technical documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.

Preferred

• Experience with complex electromechanical medical or surgical systems.

• Experience with sterile, single-use devices that interface with reusable capital equipment.

• Familiarity with FDA 510(k) submissions and standards such as IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 62366, and ISO 10993.

• Experience with design transfer, process validation, supplier qualification, cost reduction, and commercialization.

• PMP certification or equivalent project-management training.

Key Attributes

• Technically credible, organized, and comfortable challenging assumptions.

• Proactive in identifying risks, dependencies, and unclear ownership.

• Able to balance urgency with design-control and documentation requirements.

• Decisive and pragmatic, with strong follow-through and attention to detail.

• Willing to engage directly in builds, testing, troubleshooting, and supplier discussions.

Measures of Success

• Program milestones are achieved with risks identified and addressed early.

• Schedules accurately reflect resources, dependencies, and the critical path.

• Requirements, system interfaces, and ownership boundaries are clear.

• Verification, regulatory, clinical, and manufacturing deliverables are completed with minimal late rework.

• Products transition efficiently from development into controlled, scalable manufacturing.

Who We're Looking For

We are a value-based company and look for folks who:

• Collaboration: Time and attention are finite. Meetings are purposeful. Own your work. Be accountable. Drive to closure. Asking for help is strength, not weakness.

• Candor: Speak up early, directly, respectfully. Debate ideas, not people. Raise concerns when small. No politics, passivity, or condescension.

• Conviction: Mission guides every decision. Hard tradeoffs in the collective good. Getting it right over being right. Challenge each other, then commit fully.