Senior Project Manager - VR & Immersive Training

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Project Manager – VR & Immersive Training based in Canada. This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of an innovative, multi-year research and development program at the intersection of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and healthcare education. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team developing immersive training experiences designed to improve professional learning and clinical readiness. Working closely with product, engineering, design, research, and clinical stakeholders, you will drive Agile execution and coordinate complex technical workstreams. The role combines hands-on Scrum leadership with program management, client engagement, and international collaboration. You will help translate research objectives into measurable outcomes while establishing scalable delivery practices for future immersive training initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful healthcare innovation within a flexible, remote-first Canadian technology environment. Accountabilities: - Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. - Collaborate with the Product Owner to translate product priorities and research objectives into actionable sprint plans, milestones, and delivery commitments. - Maintain project plans, sprint schedules, release timelines, dependencies, and delivery metrics, while identifying and resolving impediments. - Coordinate the development of immersive training experiences using Unity and related technologies, aligning workflows across software development, backend services, AI integrations, UX/UI design, quality assurance, and deployment. - Oversee scenario development, prototyping, user testing, and iterative improvements, considering XR-specific requirements such as device compatibility, performance, interaction design, accessibility, and usability.

- Manage VR4Health program deliverables, milestones, budgets, risks, and dependencies across multiple workstreams. - Coordinate with international consortium partners, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, clinical subject-matter experts, and research collaborators. - Support project reporting, demonstrations, milestone reviews, and documentation for research and funding partners, maintaining traceability between research objectives, technical deliverables, and measurable outcomes. - Coordinate validation activities, including usability studies, pilot deployments, and assessments of learning effectiveness. - Support delivery planning for AI-powered training capabilities, such as adaptive virtual patients, conversational AI, and personalized feedback. - Act as the primary day-to-day delivery contact for internal and external stakeholders, communicating progress, risks, decisions, and dependencies clearly. - Manage scope, schedules, resource allocation, budgets, and delivery expectations while balancing stakeholder needs with team capacity, technical feasibility, and commercial objectives. - Facilitate workshops, stakeholder reviews, product demonstrations, and executive presentations. - Establish practical, scalable project management processes and improve collaboration across product, engineering, design, QA, and research teams. - Maintain delivery documentation, decision logs, acceptance criteria, release-readiness processes, defect management, and lessons learned. - Contribute to proposals, estimates, statements of work, and planning for future XR engagements, while helping build delivery capabilities that extend beyond the current program. Requirements: - At least 7 years of experience in software project management, technical production, or program delivery, including substantial hands-on Agile and Scrum leadership.