Senior Project Manager - Real-World Health Data Platforms (f/m/x)

Berlin, Potsdam
Full-time Permanent employee

Hi there!

Our goal at Data4Life is to make the world a healthier place. Our Product and Project Management team makes sure we move toward that goal with focus, rigor and speed – translating research ambition into software that generates real impact in healthcare, in Germany and beyond.
We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead our contribution to AIR-MS (the Artificial Intelligence-Ready Mount Sinai platform) and drive Data2Evidence (D2E) projects throughout the world. AIR-MS integrates structured EHR data, clinical notes, and metadata for pathology and radiology images, covering more than 12 million patients on top of the OMOP Common Data Model, and makes it accessible for interactive cohort building, AI model training, and federated analysis in a HIPAA-compliant cloud and on-prem HPC environment. It's a joint effort of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai (HPI-MS), the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, and Data4Life.

This is a full-time position based in Potsdam / Berlin. You'll report to the Head of Product and Project Management and take over end-to-end delivery of AIR-MS, working across engineering, data, clinical research, and partner organizations on multiple continents.

Your future role:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of multi-year, multi-stakeholder platform workstreams spanning Europe, America, Africa and Asia - from roadmap and quarterly OKR planning through execution, risk management, and stakeholder reporting to C-level and external partners.
• Drive cross-functional delivery across our software engineering, platform, ML, design, and quality teams - aligning Scrum and Kanban delivery cadences with waterfall-style timelines typical of research programs.
• Own the program's operating model within Data4Life: planning, tracking, reporting, dependency management, and decision logs that keep engineering and scientific stakeholders on the same page.
• Partner with principal investigators, clinicians, and researchers at Mount Sinai, HPI, and further collaborations to translate research questions into concrete, shippable platform capabilities - without losing scientific nuance.

What you need to succeed:

• 3+ years building a strong project management foundation, ideally managing cross-functional teams and complex technical delivery across multiple organizations.
• Experience with health data platforms, cloud infrastructure, or research-driven environments, with a strong understanding of technical workflows and agile methodologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to align engineering, product, and scientific partners globally.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written); knowledge of German is a plus.

Why you will love working with us:

• High level of personal responsibility and creative freedom
• Work on socially impactful projects in the healthcare sector
• Collaboration with leading partners from research, technology, and healthcare
• A diverse, interdisciplinary, and international team working across three locations (Potsdam, Berlin, and Singapore)
• Flexible working models with the option to work from home
• Permanent employment contract with 30 days of vacation
• Attractive employee benefits, e.g. private supplementary health insurance, public transport ticket

Good to know:

• We especially welcome applicants from the LGBTQI+ community, people with a migration background, people of color, and individuals with neurodiversity, disabilities, or chronic illnesses to the team.
• If you need support or special assistance during the application or interview process due to a disability, please feel free to let us know and we are happy to accommodate you as much as possible.
• This position offers an unlimited contract.
• In this position you will be working from our Berlin/Potsdam office.
• Please enclose your complete documents with your application.

About us:

Data4Life is a nonprofit organization with the vision of making the world a healthier place. With an international team, we work together on the mission to digitize health research. By linking technology and research, we make health data available to research in a comprehensive, digital and secure way. Our interdisciplinary team in Potsdam, Berlin and Singapore brings together experts from fields such as product development, digital engineering, data security and science. Data4Life was founded in 2017 and is funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation.

We care about Diversity: Many different lives, careers, and development paths lead to Data4Life. We welcome experts from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to our international team, offering everyone equal opportunities to be themselves and develop to the best of their abilities. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are not just nice words at Data4Life - we put them into practice in all of our activities and projects, striving to incorporate them in our everyday lives. For this reason, we signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) in 2022.