R&D Project Manager

XPANCEO is a deep tech company building next-gen smart contact lenses at the intersection of optics, biosensors, wireless tech, and wearables. The R&D Project Manager will turn leadership vision into structured specs through dialogue with product designers and R&D, own PoC projects end-to-end, get deep into the context of major optics/electronics corporate clients and translate their requests into product and technical requirements, manage the R&D project portfolio (statuses, deadlines, agreements) in Notion, coordinate between R&D, legal, business, and marketing, and spot bottlenecks and risks before they become problems.

• 5+ years in project/product management, ideally with B2B and hardware experience
• Technical degree and engineering literacy — able to read specs and speak the engineers' language
• Experience in both startups and large companies
• Experience with enterprise-level external corporate clients
• Able to build processes from scratch and bring structure to ambiguity
• Confident with Notion
• English B2+
• Nice to have: R&D/hardware/deep tech experience
• Nice to have: understanding of optics, electronics, biosensors, or wireless tech
• Nice to have: experience writing and aligning specs
• Nice to have: Agile/Scrum/Kanban practice

• Full-time, office-based
• Medical insurance and rent covered
• 6-month probation period
• Work at the intersection of multiple technology fields that didn't exist before