Senior Project Manager – VR & Immersive Training (Canada only)

Responsibilities

Lead Agile delivery and coordinate multidisciplinary teams developing Unity-based immersive training experiences, including planning, releases, quality, and risk management. Manage VR4Health milestones and partner relationships, communicate progress and expectations, and establish scalable delivery practices for future XR programs.

Requirements

Requires 7+ years of software project management or program delivery experience, including substantial Agile/Scrum leadership, and 3+ years delivering XR, VR, AR, real-time 3D, simulation, or similarly complex interactive applications. Candidates should have client-facing delivery experience, familiarity with Unity workflows and project management tools, and demonstrated ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, budgets, schedules, risks, and stakeholders.

Skills

• Agile Delivery
• Scrum Leadership
• Project Management
• XR And Immersive Training
• Unity Development Workflows
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• Budget And Scope Management
• Release Planning
• Multidisciplinary Team Coordination
• Professional Services Delivery
• AI Integration
• Healthcare Education
• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• Confluence

Benefits

• Flexible Work
• Growth Opportunity
• Ownership And Autonomy
• Meaningful Impact
• Innovative Technology
• International Collaboration

About this role

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master – VR & Immersive Training
Location: Vancouver, BC preferred | Remote within Canada
Employment: Full-time, permanent
Salary: CAD $110,000–$130,000 annually
Company: Aequilibrium Software Inc.
Practice: Innovation | XR & AI
Program: VR4Health
About Aequilibrium
At Aequilibrium, our mission is to enrich lives by crafting remarkable experiences. We combine strategy, design, technology, and innovation to help organizations solve complex challenges and create meaningful impact. Our immersive technology practice develops virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and AI-powered experiences for enterprise learning, simulation, and digital transformation.
We're leading VR4Health, a three-year, funded, international R&D initiative exploring how AI-powered immersive experiences can transform healthcare education and professional training. 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.
The Opportunity
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 a Product Owner, Technical Lead, Unity Developer, Full-Stack Developer, and Designer, alongside research partners, clinical subject-matter experts, and international collaborators. You'll ensure the team delivers high-quality, measurable outcomes through effective Agile execution, proactive risk management, and strong stakeholder coordination.
The ideal candidate has managed enterprise XR or real-time 3D projects, preferably within a professional services or consulting environment, and understands the complexities of delivering immersive training solutions. Experience with organizations such as Unity Professional Services, Capgemini Engineering, or comparable XR consulting and development teams would be particularly relevant.
Key Responsibilities
1. Agile Delivery & Scrum Leadership
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.
2. XR & Immersive Training Delivery
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.
3. VR4Health Program Coordination
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.
4. Professional Services & Stakeholder Management
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.
5. Continuous Improvement & Delivery Operations
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.
Required 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, c...

About Aequilibrium Software Inc.

Information Technology & Services · 51-200 employees · headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2012