Project Manager – Digital Pathology Implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Digital Pathology implementation, from planning and requirements through testing, go-live, and stabilization.

• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, dependencies, RAID log, resource plan, and implementation schedule.

• Coordinate activities across Pathology, Laboratory Operations, Clinical IT, Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Integration, and application teams.

• Partner with digital pathology technology and implementation vendors to manage deliverables, timelines, issues, and dependencies.

• Coordinate integration of the digital pathology platform with relevant LIS, EHR/Epic, PACS/VNA, image management, identity and access, and downstream clinical systems, as applicable.

• Manage infrastructure readiness for whole-slide imaging, including scanners, diagnostic workstations and displays, storage, network capacity, interfaces, and production environments.

• Coordinate requirements gathering and workflow design with pathologists, laboratory leadership, technologists, and clinical stakeholders.

• Drive interface and integration testing, system testing, workflow validation, UAT, defect management, and go-live readiness.

• Establish governance, status reporting, decision logs, escalation processes, and executive-level reporting.

• Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and implementation issues and drive mitigation plans.

• Coordinate training, change management, communications, operational readiness, and adoption activities with business and clinical teams.

• Develop cutover and go-live plans, including command-center support, issue triage, escalation, and post-production stabilization.

• Ensure implementation activities align with organizational privacy, security, compliance, access, and healthcare operational requirements.

• Manage multiple workstreams and ensure clear ownership, accountability, and timely resolution of cross-functional dependencies.

• Track project KPIs, milestones, budget and resource utilization, risks, and overall delivery health for leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience, preferably within healthcare IT or clinical technology programs.

• 3+ years of experience managing healthcare application or clinical system implementations.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional implementations involving clinical, technical, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

• Strong understanding of the healthcare application implementation lifecycle, including requirements, design, integration, testing, deployment, and stabilization.

• Experience with Digital Pathology, Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), pathology workflows, imaging solutions, or related clinical technologies strongly preferred.

• Understanding of healthcare integration concepts such as HL7, interfaces, Epic integration, image management, and clinical workflows.

• Strong experience with project planning, RAID management, dependency management, change control, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting.

• Experience coordinating third-party product or vendor implementations.

• Ability to work effectively with physicians, pathologists, laboratory teams, technical SMEs, vendors, and senior leadership.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Digital Pathology or Whole Slide Imaging implementation experience.

• Experience working with pathology or laboratory platforms and workflows.

• Experience with Epic and/or LIS integration projects.

• Familiarity with Digital Pathology platforms or vendors such as Philips, Leica/Aperio, Sectra, Hamamatsu, or Proscia.

• Experience managing clinical system go-lives in a large hospital or academic healthcare environment.

• Knowledge of healthcare privacy, security, regulatory, and clinical validation requirements.

• PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent project/program management certification preferred.