About You:
My client are looking to hire an experienced professional as a Project Manager to oversee their organization’s ongoing operations and procedures. You will report directly to the CEO and will work directly with the CTO, as well as various client stakeholders, to establish the next chapter of the companies results, strategy, operations, and organizational design.
As Project Manager, you will be hands-on and involved in day-to-day operations as well as
responsible for maintaining control of diverse and scientifically complex business operations. The client expects you to be an experienced and efficient leader with sufficient experience in the technology and life sciences domains. This position will require you to have excellent people skills, business acumen, and an exemplary work ethic, but most importantly, you must be able to interface with a deeply R&D centric culture and be capable of helping functional leaders prioritize across many competing initiatives and projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive and develop operational excellence across their business areas, including current internal pipeline projects and R&D initiatives, external client pipeline projects, and strategic external collaborations
- Build strategy and implementation of operational excellence, including iteratively building the team as they continue to grow
- Hands-on collaboration with domain expert leaders (comp chem, comp bio, MLE) to achieve progress on internal R&D initiatives and software product roll-out/testing
- Work collaboratively with experts from other fields (e.g., medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, machine learning) to remove project obstacles, create metrics to track progress in ways linked to business value, and determine optimal “next steps” to push discovery programs forward
- Lead progress and actively manage relationships for important client projects
- Manage relationships with CROs, partners, and vendors across highly diverse topic areas (g. chemical synthesis CROs, wet-lab experiment CROs, boutique life sciences experiment partners)
- Identify CROs, data providers, and other collaborations that have the ability to support initiatives in an efficient and cost-effective manner
Requirements:
- Proven operator experience in a relevant technology heavy environment
- Content knowledge and experience at the intersection between life sciences and technology
- Understanding of the applications and pitfalls of machine learning
- Demonstrable competency in strategic planning and business development
- Ability to provide thought leadership by implementing best practices and collaborating with company leaders, even in domain areas outside expertise
- +3-5 years of senior leadership experience in industry with ideally one or more of the following:
- Previous experience in management consulting (e., McKinsey/Bain/BCG), venture capital, or private equity
- Significant experience as a high achiever at venture-backed biotechnology or technology start-up
- Relevant technical education such as: PhD degree in computational or life sciences related field, Masters degree(s) in computational or related life sciences fields
- Experience managing projects and teams in a tech environment (e.g., big tech or within a technology start-up)
- Exposure to industry R&D workflows and decision making
- Sufficient programming knowledge, familiarity with programming management tools, and exposure to both on premises and cloud supercomputing