Technical Project Manager

Job overview

The Technical Project Manager role is onsite in Emeryville, CA. The annual salary range for the Manager level is typically $140,000–$175,000. The role supports customer programs and technical projects across Prolific Machines’ research and development, technical operations, hardware, and business development teams.

What you'll do

• Scope, plan, and oversee schedules for internal and client-facing technical projects
• coordinate resource planning with senior leadership
• collaborate with technical leads
• support project standards and improvement initiatives
• and prepare monthly project updates, dashboards, and milestone and data reports. Coordinate with customer teams, third parties, suppliers, and partners as needed.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

technical project manager

emeryville ca

prolific machines

biotechnology

optogenetics

cell line development

process development

client-facing projects

cross-functional coordination

project reporting

$140k–$175k annually

equity package

company-covered medical dental vision

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity package
• retirement plan with company contribution
• flexible PTO with healthy time-off minimums
• company-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
• life and disability insurance
• career coaching
• mental health support
• daily team lunches
• snacks
• and companywide social events.

Why this role

Requires a master's degree with 5+ years or a Ph.D. with 2+ years of project management in cell line development or process development in a biopharmaceutical or similar industry. PMP certification and direct technical experience in cell engineering, cell line development, or process development/scale-up are desired but not required.

About the employer

Prolific Machines is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology). Sector: 54.