About the Job

As Program Director at Motif Neurotech, you will play a pivotal role in driving the execution of our product roadmap and ensuring seamless collaboration across the organization. You’ll help our team work efficiently and strategically to deliver innovative neurotechnology that transforms lives.

We are seeking a senior leader who goes beyond coordination and task tracking — someone who thrives on managing program predictability, risk, cross-functional alignment, and transparent communication from the engineering bench to the executive team. Your leadership will be instrumental in fostering clarity, accountability, and momentum as we bring our first minimally invasive neural stimulation system to market and prepare for future generations of our platform technology.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading complex medical device programs that integrate multiple disciplines — from clinical and engineering to quality, manufacturing, and regulatory affairs. You are adept at structuring and organizing work that spans internal teams as well as external partners, vendors, and suppliers, ensuring that every element of development is synchronized and executed to plan.

This is a unique opportunity to join a pioneering neurotechnology company at a defining moment — helping deliver a first-of-its-kind device into clinical trials and laying the foundation for the future of bioelectronic medicine.

Job Location: Hybrid; must be able to travel to Motif HQ in Houston, Texas once per month.

Does this sound like you?

• You thrive on bringing clarity to complexity — structuring timelines, dependencies, and deliverables that guide a cross-functional team from concept through FDA approval and into the clinic.
• You communicate with precision and confidence, ensuring that leadership and the Board always have a clear view of progress, risk, and path to milestone.
• You take pride in connecting the dots — aligning engineers, clinicians, and vendors around a shared critical path and keeping everyone moving together at pace.
• You’re relentless about execution and accountability, unblocking obstacles and driving the team toward ambitious yet realistic goals.
• You know that great programs aren’t about doing everything — they’re about focusing on the right work, helping teams streamline to the minimum viable path that achieves impact.
• You design systems and processes that bring structure where it’s needed — and flexibility where innovation demands it.
• You’re motivated by growth and scale, eager to help define the product development portfolio, resourcing strategy, and operational foundation for the company’s next chapter.

If yes to the above, then you may love working with Motif as it is being built by highly dedicated people with passion for neurotechnology, clinical product development, and putting the patient first. We are looking for people with the same energy who will thrive in a high growth - high autonomy environment.

In this role, you will:

• Define and direct the program execution to get our product through FDA approval and clinical trial execution
• Define clear milestones and delivery dates for the team and partners to meet
• Manage work breakdown for hardware, software, and system integration activities
• Navigate the team through the transition between development first in human use production
• Create clear reports and analyses of project status and projections
• Own and manage our project management tool and the development timeline
• Set up master and sub-project gantt charts
• Create narrative, graphic, and software tool based reports of project status, issues, and opportunities
• Assess project risk and identify tasks or issues of uncertainty and potential impacts to timeline or quality of deliverables
• Define best, expected, and worst case potential scenarios and be able to communicate them clearly and efficiently
• Setup accurate dependencies and align multiple functional teams on the same timeline
• Facilitate communication between teams to understand interdependent task items
• Understand critical path and adjust team priorities to accelerate delivery and/or minimize program risk
• Help teams in predicting and planning work optimally
• Motivate team members by pointing them towards upcoming milestones, integration points, and deliverables
• Drive a high standard of execution and accountability by removing barriers, managing workload, and engaging team members towards challenging but achievable milestones
• Ensure that all tasks have clearly assigned responsible parties
• Actively engage team members through multiple communication channels to discover barriers to work and coordinate yourself and other team members to remove those barriers
• Engage and understand and be able to map or plot employee workload to distribute task items correctly
• Help team members express proper requirements to external parties to ensure on time delivery of external work products and deliverables and incorporate those back into the timeline
• Keep track of external vendors, contacts, and stakeholders and engage team members to get time quotes, check on status, and push on deliverables
• Interface with manufacturing, purchasing, and others to utilize average and high-end lead times to plan for order dates and delivery times
• Perform proper look-ahead work to plan for long-lead time services and contractors

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and you may be asked to perform different tasks if your role within or the objectives of the organization changes.

To be considered, you will need:

• 10+ years experience managing medical device development projects
• An understanding of preclinical testing and timelines needed for development and testing of implantable medical devices
• Significant experience with cloud-based project management tools
• High accountability and a motivation to create and meet challenging goals
• Technical experience that enables you to talk to multiple people from several different technical or specialist backgrounds (engineering, clinical, quality, manufacturing, etc)
• A strong sense of integrity and a desire for transparency to keep all aware of accurate timelines, even when issues arise
• A degree or background in an engineering discipline

It is a bonus if you have:

• Experience in neurological implantable medical devices
• Experience managing contract manufacturers or key vendors
• Experience in the development of complex systems (hardware, software, firmware)
• Familiarity with clinical trial execution

Work Authorization Notice

Motif Neurotech hires only individuals who are authorized to work in the United States. At this time, visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.