[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @Aequilibrium Software

Role Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead the day-to-day delivery of our VR4Health program and help us scale our immersive training capabilities.

This is a hands-on delivery leadership role at the intersection of immersive technology, AI, professional services, and healthcare education.

You'll work with a multidisciplinary team comprising:

• Product Owner
• Technical Lead
• Unity Developer
• Full-Stack Developer
• Designer
• Research partners
• Clinical subject-matter experts
• International collaborators

You'll ensure the team delivers high-quality, measurable outcomes through effective Agile execution, proactive risk management, and strong stakeholder coordination.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software project management, technical production, or program delivery, including substantial hands-on Agile/Scrum leadership.
• 3+ years delivering XR, VR, AR, real-time 3D, simulation, or similarly complex interactive applications.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams involving software engineers, designers, technical artists, and product stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, Agile delivery, backlog management, estimation, and release planning.
• Experience delivering technology projects in a professional services, consulting, agency, or client-facing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, budgets, timelines, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
• Familiarity with Unity development workflows and the technical considerations of immersive applications.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or equivalent project management and collaboration tools.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and external partners.
• Eligible to work full-time in Canada.

Requirements

• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with the Product Owner to translate product priorities and research objectives into actionable sprint plans and delivery milestones.
• Maintain delivery plans, sprint commitments, dependencies, and release schedules.
• Identify and resolve impediments while promoting team autonomy and accountability.
• Track delivery metrics, including sprint predictability, throughput, quality, and milestone completion.
• Adapt Agile practices to the realities of R&D, experimentation, and evolving technical requirements.
• Coordinate the development and delivery of immersive training experiences using Unity and related technologies.
• Manage workflows across Unity development, backend services, AI integrations, UX/UI design, testing, and deployment.
• Coordinate scenario development, prototyping, user testing, and iterative improvements.
• Understand XR-specific delivery challenges, including device compatibility, performance optimization, interaction design, and user experience.
• Help establish repeatable processes for developing, testing, and deploying immersive training scenarios.
• Ensure appropriate quality assurance, accessibility, usability, and performance standards.
• Manage project plans, deliverables, milestones, risks, and dependencies across the VR4Health workstreams.
• Coordinate with international consortium partners, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, and research collaborators.
• Support the preparation of project reports, demonstrations, milestone reviews, and documentation required by research and funding partners.
• Maintain traceability between research objectives, technical deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate validation activities, including usability studies, pilot deployments, and learning effectiveness assessments.
• Support planning and delivery of AI-powered training capabilities, including adaptive virtual patients, conversational AI, and personalized feedback.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day delivery contact for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resource allocation, and delivery expectations.
• Communicate project progress, risks, decisions, and dependencies clearly to leadership and partners.
• Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, stakeholder reviews, and executive presentations.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency, reusability, and scalability.
• Support proposals, estimates, statements of work, and planning for future XR engagements.
• Balance client and partner expectations with team capacity, technical feasibility, and commercial objectives.
• Establish lightweight, scalable project management practices appropriate for a multidisciplinary innovation team.
• Improve collaboration across product, engineering, design, QA, and research.
• Maintain clear documentation, decision logs, and delivery reporting.
• Support release readiness, acceptance criteria, defect management, and lessons learned.
• Help build delivery capabilities that can support future immersive training clients and programs beyond VR4Health.

Benefits

• Help advance immersive healthcare training with the potential to improve professional readiness and patient care.
• Work at the intersection of VR, AI, simulation, and experiential learning.
• Participate in a multi-year R&D initiative involving technology and research partners.
• Play a central role in shaping how we develop and deliver our immersive training products.
• Help establish scalable delivery capabilities for our expanding XR and AI practice.
• Join a collaborative, remote-first Canadian technology company.

How to Apply

Please submit your résumé and cover letter with a brief description of one or two XR, simulation, or immersive training projects you've delivered. We'd particularly like to understand your role in managing multidisciplinary teams, your experience with Unity-based development, and how you've balanced Agile delivery with client expectations, technical complexity, and evolving requirements.

Join us in shaping the future of immersive healthcare training.