Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deep Origin, led by Michael Antonov, aims to reinvent the way scientists work and accelerate drug development. They are seeking a Senior Technical/Scientific Program Manager to lead a complex R&D program that coordinates internal teams and external partners to meet aggressive technical milestones.
Responsibilities
- Own execution of a large, multi-year strategic R&D program
- Coordinate work across AI, software engineering, computational biology, laboratory automation, cloud infrastructure, product, and scientific teams
- Manage collaboration across universities, CROs, research institutes, government stakeholders, and commercial partners
- Build and maintain integrated program plans, critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and risk registers
- Lead weekly cross-functional program reviews and executive status meetings
- Track technical deliverables across dozens of parallel workstreams and proactively remove execution bottlenecks
- Drive communication between engineering, science, operations, and external collaborators
- Ensure projects remain on schedule, within scope, and aligned with strategic objectives
- Identify risks early, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues appropriately
- Establish scalable program management processes, governance, reporting, and documentation as the organization grows
- Coordinate with and report to top leadership about the program status and work with them on commercialization activities
Skills
- 10+ years leading large, cross-functional technical programs
- Hands-on experience working in life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical R&D, or academic biomedical research
- Strong understanding of experimental biology, laboratory workflows, protocol development, and the challenges of scientific reproducibility
- Experience with wet labs, CROs, cloud labs, or lab automation systems
- Demonstrated experience managing programs involving multiple organizations and diverse technical disciplines, including both software engineers and experimental scientists
- Experience coordinating software engineering teams together with research, scientific, or hardware organizations
- Outstanding organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and systems engineering
- Ability to understand complex technical discussions and facilitate decision-making without being the technical expert
- Proven ability to manage ambiguity and drive execution in fast-moving environments
- Background in managing projects or grants for the US federal government and interfacing with government officials
- Strong, proactive, clear communication style
- DARPA, ARPA-H, NIH, NASA, NSF, or other large government-funded R&D programs
- Large technology companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, etc.) leading highly cross-functional initiatives
- Multi-institution scientific collaborations involving academia, industry, and government
- AI, machine learning, computational biology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or scientific software platforms
- Programs involving external subcontractors, consortiums, standards bodies, or open-source collaborations
- Global organizations with distributed engineering and scientific teams
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Annual team gatherings and company events.
- Free lunch, snacks, beverages, and onsite gym access (for in-office employees).
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