Sr. Manager - Project Management, Architect

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This is a Stanford Health Care job.

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford Health Care's (SHC) mission is to heal humanity through science and compassion, one patient at a time. As a part of Facilities Services, the Facilities Planning & Design (FPD) Planning team serves to support the mission and core values of the SHC enterprise. The FPD Planning team shapes the SHC environments by c reating and managing spaces that empower healing and advanc e innovation . The FPD Planning team elevat es the human experience for patients, providers, and staff by leading thoughtful programming, planning, and design of new spaces , optimizing existing spaces, and facilitating space change s through effective governance, all with the goal of enhancing the delivery of patient care .

The Senior Manager / Architect will be a strategic, cross-functional leader overseeing key architectural design initiatives that drive enterprise-wide transformation. This individual will bring a deep understanding of healthcare design and architecture, guiding projects from vision and concept through execution. This individual will act as a strategic design leader and trusted partner, balancing creativity with functional performance, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.

This individual must be adept at navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and leading collaborative teams toward shared goals. The ideal candidate will bring experience in healthcare architectural design and facility operations with strong communication and presentation skills and a deep understanding of how the built environment supports clinical and design excellence.

This role will be hybrid. Regardless, the expectation will be for this role to be able to be on-site any day of the week as needed during work hours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership across large, strategic improvement programs aligned with SHC priorities

• Define program goals, scope, and deliverables in collaboration with executive stakeholders

• Lead the conceptualization and delivery of complex, high-impact healthcare design projects.

• Create and guide high-level campus planning, building massing studies , and design narratives.

• Partner with architects, engineers, contractors, and clinical staff to ensure design integrity throughout the project lifecycle.

• Present design concepts and progress updates to executive leadership in a compelling, visually engaging way.

• Champion continuous improvement, identifying design efficiencies and synergies across projects.

• Develop and refine processes for prioritizing projects, allocating resources, and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.

• Mentor and inspire a multidisciplinary team, fostering a culture of design excellence.

Must have skills:

• Degree in A rchitecture or related field

• Strong knowledge of regulatory and code requirements , construction methods, and materials

• A strong portfolio of built work demonstrating experience and capabilities

• Experience developing high-level campus planning and building massing studies

• Strong visual communication skills, including PowerPoint presentations for executive audiences

• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and interpreting operational needs into design solutions

• Experience of leading and mentoring in-house team members

• Skilled in navigating multi-disciplinary teams, including engineers, contractors, and hospital staff

• Excellent and s uccinct verbal and written communication skills

• Proficient in AutoCAD, Revit, and other relevant drafting/design software

• Proficient in Bluebeam and Microsoft Office Suite

Nice to have skills:

• 12+ years of relevant experience, particularly with healthcare projects

• California architectural licensure preferred

• Understanding of OSHPD/HCAI healthcare codes and regulations

• Familiarity with energy efficiency and green building standards

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project

• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

• Working knowledge of spreadsheets and formulas

• Proficiency in 3D design tools (Rhino, Enscape , Lumion, Sketch-up)

This is an opportunity to influence the future of the healthcare environment at one of the worlds leading academic medical centers. If you are a creative, strategic , and design-minded leader who thrives in collaborative, high-impact environments, we invite you to join our mission.

A Brief Overview
The Senior Manager Project Management is responsible for supervising staff to manage the programming, planning, design, implementation and post live monitoring of complex projects. Establishes and maintains tools, processes to prioritize projects, effectively assign staffing resources, and ensure project managers are completing projects within budget and on time.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Manages project management team comprising of managers, project and program managers and business analysts for a VP-area/large department in the performance of required job functions.
• Maintains direct knowledge of project pipeline for current and future projects in the portfolio.
• Implements/oversees system monitors and controls to drive the successful management and reporting of projects; ensures that projects are appropriately managed for on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for project lifecycle management.
• Develop roadmaps and long range plans for portfolio maintenance.
• Manages the selection and prioritization processes for projects to align with organizational strategic goals; assigns resources based on skill and capacity.
• Ensures timely and consistent communication to sponsors and stakeholders on project status, scope changes, and resource impacts for projects.
• Monitor and advocate the use of Process Excellence methodologies approved within SHC such as Lean.
• Ensures existing processes support high levels of performance while continuously reviewing and refining those processes to make additional improvements.
• Delegates tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Implements quality control measures to ensure project compliance with department, hospital, and university policies, government codes and regulations.
• Determines and assesses need for staffing levels and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary.
• Guides project managers and business analysts in assessment and documentation of project scope; to describe objectives, requirements, parameters, and constraints of projects.
• Incorporate best practices to improve existing organizational methods and processes.
• Keep abreast of new developments, trends in the areas of project/portfolio management.
• Hire, evaluate the performance of and implement corrective action, up to and including termination, for assigned staff as necessary. Address individual staff performance problems as needed.
• Coach, mentor and manage staff to plan, design and implement technical and non-technical projects supporting the workflows.
• Collaborate with other managers and leaders on various initiatives spanning across the network and impacting multiple teams.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university.

Experience Qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience, including 3 or more years of program and people management experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Six Sigma certification preferred, or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels and in situations requiring instructing, persuading, negotiating, conflict resolution, consulting and advising, as well as flawless written communication.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation.
• Ability to manage multiple changing priorities and work effectively in a team or independent setting.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.
• Ability to provide leadership and influence others.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and/or negotiate with others to achieve positive results; establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to make effective oral presentations and prepare concise written reports to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to plan, organize, motivate, mentor, direct, and evaluate the work of others, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to utilize project management tools and to coach staff/team members on tools.
• Ability to work effectively as a team player and leader.
• Ability to budget, make financial projections.

Licenses and Certifications

• PMP - Project Mgmt Professional required .

Physical Demands and Work Conditions
Blood Borne Pathogens

• Category II - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanfords patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.