We're hiring a contract Project Manager to run one engagement, start to finish. You'll be fully dedicated to a single client program in the life sciences space, embedded with our strategists, researchers, and designers for the length of the contract.
Your job is to be the connective tissue. You're in every session. You capture what happens, get it to the people who need it, and keep the program moving between meetings. When the design team needs a decision from the client, you know who to ask and when the answer is coming. When our internal PM needs context to conduct across the wider engagement, you've already handed it over.
The work is unglamorous and enormously valuable. Programs like this rarely fail on craft. They fail because a piece of feedback got lost in a call three weeks ago, or because two stakeholders were working from different versions of the same deck. You're the reason that doesn't happen here.
Whipsaw is a product design and brand consultancy based in San Francisco. We take products from first insight to first customer, working across strategy, industrial design, digital experience, brand identity, packaging, and market launch with one integrated team. 350+ global client partners. 1,000+ products designed. 325+ design awards.
Our clients are funded startups building their first commercial product and established companies evolving an existing one, entering a new market, or launching a new sub-brand. The work spans consumer, medical, scientific, industrial, and connected products.
Terms
Contract Length: 4-5 months, with potential to extend
Hours: Up to 40 hours per week, fully dedicated to one client program
Overtime: Billed to client and paid to you hourly
Location: Hybrid, San Francisco/ 2-3 days per week onsite at 55 Mississippi St.
Rate: $65-75 per hour
Start date: August 12, 2026
Classification: 1099
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