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Project Manager (R&D)

Navina

Navina

Operations
Illinois, USA
Posted on Dec 5, 2025

Project Manager (R&D)

  • R&D
  • IL
  • Senior
  • Full-time

Description

Navina is a fast-growing digital health SaaS company that’s on a mission to transform the way physicians interact with patient data. Thousands of clinicians across the United States already use Navina’s AI-powered solution that transforms complex and fragmented patient data into concise “patient portraits" and actionable clinical insights at the point of care. With Navina, physicians experience less burnout, reduce missed diagnoses, and can devote more time giving better care to their patients.

Navina has been named one of the Top 100 AI companies globally by CB Insights and made the list of the Top 50 Digital Health startups. We are already working with industry-leading value-based organizations including Privia Health and Agilon.

We are looking for a high-impact, experienced Project Manager to join our R&D team. As a Project Manager, you will implement and own a robust project-management methodology across our organisation. You’ll drive the end-to-end lifecycle—from requirements gathering through rollout and ongoing support, while continuously monitoring, analysing and improving how we deliver. You’ll build and present KPIs to leadership, identify bottlenecks, streamline processes, and raise the bar on delivery quality and efficiency. Technical background is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Define, implement and champion a standardized Project Management methodology at Navina: covering scope definition, requirements capture, planning, execution, rollout, and post-deployment support.
  • Establish, track and present KPIs and dashboards for all major projects over time: metrics around delivery timelines, quality, resource utilisation, stakeholder satisfaction, risk & issue tracking.
  • Continuously analyse operational and delivery bottlenecks: surface areas of inefficiency, drive initiatives and improvements (processes, tools, documentation, communication) to boost throughput and quality. This includes shaping our Jira workflows to match the defined process and KPIs.
  • Lead and drive status update meetings, maintain project tracking tools, generate analytics and reporting for senior leadership and key stakeholders.
  • Ensure high transparency across projects: maintain clear communication with teams (engineering, product, support), highlight risks/impediments, and secure timely decision making and escalation.
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, customer success teams: ensure smooth hand-offs, clear responsibilities, and alignment from requirements through to support.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement: propose and implement process enhancements, tooling improvements or standard templates to support scalable and repeatable project delivery.

Requirements

  • Proven experience (5+ years) in project management in a software or technology environment. Experience implementing Jira workflows is an advantage.
  • Experience implementing and working according to a formal project methodology.
  • Strong analytical mindset: capable of designing and presenting dashboards/KPIs, interpreting data to drive actionable insights.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills: you engage with technical teams, product owners, leadership and support organisations and keep everyone aligned.
  • Ability to manage end-to-end project delivery: from requirements to rollout and support phase.
  • Comfort managing multiple projects or streams simultaneously, identifying dependencies, risks and mitigating them proactively.
  • Based in Israel (or willing to work Israel-time overlap) and able to collaborate with teams across locations and time zones.

Nice-to-Haves:

  • A technical background (engineering, computer science) or hands-on experience with software development - this helps you understand engineering conversations and technical trade-offs.
  • Experience working in a SaaS or rapidly scaling tech company.
  • Familiarity with healthcare or enterprise software delivery environments.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to automate and streamline processes.

You don’t need to meet 100% of the requirements to be a great fit. We believe in hiring people, not just checklists, and we value potential as much as experience. If this role excites you, we’d love to see your application!