Project Manager

About the role

Our mission is to build a healthier and more connected world with precision health and genealogy services. We empower individuals with actionable insights into their genetic makeup, fostering a deeper understanding of their ancestry, health, and wellness. By integrating the experience of Gene by Gene Laboratory Services, FamilyTreeDNA genealogy, and myDNA reporting services, we strive to deliver cutting-edge genetic testing and personalized solutions that inspire informed decisions and enhance quality of life. Our team is dedicated to advancing the field of genomics through innovation, research, and a commitment to excellence.

All employees are expected to demonstrate our values of Innovate, One Team, and Integrity when carrying out the accountabilities and responsibilities of their role. This is how we show up every day for ourselves, our colleagues and our customers and strategic partners to deliver our vision and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, and resource plans in partnership with executive sponsors and engineering leads.
• Drive projects from initiation through delivery, holding teams and timelines accountable and maintaining momentum with a strong sense of urgency.
• Manage competing priorities across a lean team, sequencing work so effort is never duplicated and resources are deployed where they create the most value.
• Deliver projects on time and within scope, escalating early and with options when constraints emerge.
• Serve as the day-to-day delivery partner for developers and engineers, running standups, sprint ceremonies, and delivery cadences as appropriate.
• Translate business and executive requirements into clear, well-scoped work for technical teams, and remove blockers quickly so engineers stay focused on building.
• Understand technical constraints, dependencies, and trade-offs well enough to represent them accurately in planning and executive conversations.
• Protect engineering time by consolidating requests, filtering noise, and keeping meetings purposeful and brief.
• Partner directly with executives and senior leaders to convert strategic vision into concrete roadmaps, deliverables, and success measures.
• Provide concise, decision-ready reporting to leadership: status, risks, options, and a recommendation, not a recitation of activity.
• Manage up effectively, anticipating what leaders need to know and when, and surfacing decisions before they become bottlenecks.
• Keep executive expectations grounded in delivery reality, communicating trade-offs candidly and constructively.
• Coordinate across departments and time zones spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, keeping globally distributed stakeholders informed and aligned.
• Tailor communication style to the audience, technical depth for engineers, brevity and business impact for executives.
• Maintain a single source of truth for project status, decisions, and action items so no work is lost or repeated.
• Identify risks and issues early, quantify their impact, and drive them to resolution with a bias for action.
• Manage scope changes with discipline, assessing impact on timeline, resources, and dependencies before commitments are made.
• Approach set