Technical Program Manager, R&D
$131,200–$246,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Anticipate bottlenecks before they occur by working with R&D and Product to define requirements, surface technical dependencies, and build delivery schedules that account for trade-offs. Translate between R&D, Product, and Finance to build shared vocabulary and cadence that allows scientists to explore while stakeholders demand predictability. Design execution rituals like sprints and checkpoints that create accountability without forcing lab-paced work into a factory cadence. Own the roadmap end-to-end, building, defending, and updating it as the science evolves to ensure it remains a living tool. Drive resourcing conversations with leadership and finance to make cases for R&D needs backed by a track record. Coordinate the final handoffs for milestones, papers, or product launches to ensure clean delivery without scrambling.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in technical program management or a similar role
- real experience sitting inside, rather than just tracking the status of, R&D or deep-science teams that shipped world-class products
- A track record, proven by specific moments you can point to, of stepping into a program mid-crisis (a stalled milestone, a resourcing gap, a scope blowup) and getting it back on track
- Demonstrated ability to build and defend ROI-generating roadmaps for teams doing genuinely novel, high-uncertainty scientific work
- Proven ability to get fluent in a new scientific domain fast enough to make good calls in it independently
- An advanced degree in a technical field
- Deep experience working within heavily scientific teams
- Experience partnering directly with finance and product leadership to tie technical delivery to investment decisions
- A bias toward asking 'how might this plan break in six months?' before it does
Desired Qualifications
- Experience at a startup, or in another environment where the roadmap changed faster than the org chart could keep up
- Direct biotech or biopharma experience
- Degree in machine learning and/or a drug-discovery-related field
- Experience standing up program management tooling, dashboards, or automation pipelines that a scientific team actually kept using
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