Senior Project Manager – VR & Immersive Training

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Convert product priorities and research objectives into actionable sprint plans and delivery milestones.

• Oversee delivery plans, sprint commitments, dependencies, and release schedules.

• Identify and address obstacles while fostering team autonomy and accountability.

• Monitor delivery metrics including sprint predictability, throughput, quality, and milestone achievement.

• Orchestrate the development and delivery of immersive training experiences utilizing Unity and related technologies.

• Oversee workflows across Unity development, backend services, AI integrations, UX/UI design, testing, and deployment processes.

• Coordinate the creation of scenarios, prototyping, user testing, and iterative enhancements.

• Supervise VR4Health project plans, deliverables, milestones, risks, and dependencies.

• Collaborate with international consortium partners, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, and research collaborators.

• Assist with project reports, demonstrations, milestone reviews, and documentation for research and funding.

• Coordinate validation activities such as usability studies, pilot deployments, and assessments of learning effectiveness.

• Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day delivery matters for both internal and external stakeholders.

• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resource allocation, and delivery expectations.

• Communicate project advancements, risks, decisions, and dependencies to leadership and partners.

• Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, stakeholder reviews, and executive presentations.

• Implement scalable project management practices and enhance collaboration across product, engineering, design, QA, and research teams.

• Keep documentation, decision logs, delivery reports, acceptance criteria, defect management records, and lessons learned up to date.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software project management, technical production, or program delivery, with significant hands-on leadership in Agile/Scrum.

• 3+ years of experience in delivering XR, VR, AR, real-time 3D, simulation, or similarly complex interactive applications.

• Proven experience in managing multidisciplinary teams that include software engineers, designers, technical artists, and product stakeholders.

• Strong grasp of the software development lifecycle, Agile delivery, backlog management, estimation, and release planning.

• Experience in delivering technology projects within a professional services, consulting, agency, or client-facing context.

• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, budgets, timelines, risks, and stakeholder expectations effectively.

• Familiarity with Unity development workflows and the technical aspects of immersive applications.

• Proficient in using Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar project management and collaboration tools.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Capability to work efficiently with distributed teams and external partners.

• Eligible to work full-time in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful impact: Contribute to the advancement of immersive healthcare training that has the potential to enhance professional readiness and patient care.

• Innovative technology: Engage at the crossroads of VR, AI, simulation, and experiential learning.

• International collaboration: Take part in a multi-year R&D initiative involving technology and research partners.

• Ownership and autonomy: Play a key role in shaping the development and delivery of immersive training products.

• Growth opportunity: Assist in establishing scalable delivery capabilities for the expanding XR and AI practice.

• Flexible work: Join a collaborative, remote-first Canadian technology company.