Technical Program Director, London
Isomorphic Labs is a new Alphabet company that is reimagining drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach.
We are on a mission to accelerate the speed, increase the efficacy and lower the cost of drug discovery. You'll be working at the cutting edge of the new era of 'digital biology' to deliver a transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people.
Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.
Your impact
Reporting to the CTO, you will work in close collaboration with all of the Research, Product and Engineering Leads to act as a thought partner and guide the overall work of the sub-teams and organise various programs and activities to ensure successful technical programme delivery. You’ll be translating Isomorphic Labs company goals into concrete plans and driving these programs within project budgets, timelines, and other success criteria, and ensuring that each of the functional areas are aligned. You will manage a small team of technical Program Managers whilst supporting output and building a set of tools and best practices for technical program management across the organisation.
What you will do
- Overall leadership and responsibility for technical program management and project planning and delivery across the technology organisation spanning Computational Research (especially Machine Learning) and Engineering, utilising your broad knowledge of program and project management best practices, including Agile/Scrum and PMBOK-style project management.
- Ensure program and project alignment with the organisation’s overall mission and to deliver meaningful impact, continuously partner with the Drug Design and Operations teams to understand their objectives, aligning on vision and strategy, and identifying interdependencies to produce a coherent set of joined up technology programs.
- Deliver the technology organisation’s research and engineering programs and projects on-time, on-budget, and with quality by partnering with relevant stakeholders and driving progress at pace.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive risk management strategy across the portfolio covering timely attention to risks, issues, and action plans.
- Continuously evaluate programs against success metrics and report key progress KPIs across the portfolio to the company executive team and other stakeholders.
- Launch and oversee a PMO, setting up processes and standards for project management across the technology organisation.
- You will thought partner, drive strategy and ensure the CTO has the right visibility of projects across the technology organisation, enabling them to prioritise their time effectively and helping drive excellent organisation within the Technology Leadership Team.
- Represent the point of view of the CTO in relevant projects and workstreams across the technology group.
- Facilitate the flow of information and collaboration between external collaborators, acting as the strategic bridge across Alphabet, Google, Google DeepMind, and academic and commercial vendors and collaborators.
- You will continue to develop and empower the team of Technical Program Managers and anticipate future resource needs in line with business goals and priorities.
Skills and qualifications
Essential:
- Strong stakeholder management across different groups and levels, and experience managing a successful high performing team
- Depth of knowledge and experience in utilising coaching techniques to support individuals from diverse backgrounds in a dynamic environment.
- Experience leading teams of Technical Program Managers.
- Extensive project and program management expertise within a technology and computational research landscape with ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt plans/strategies as project conditions change.
- Demonstrable experience successfully leading complex research and engineering programs according to a stringent set of success criteria while consistently applying project management best practices.
- Experience driving strategic planning in a complex technical environment with many internal and external stakeholders and across multiple time horizons.
- Experience managing program budgets of tens to hundreds $M.
- Ability to communicate clearly and precisely with appropriate level of detail and support from data in a scientific environment, and to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organisation.
- Proactive about acquiring knowledge to enhance the impact you have, demonstrate a curious attitude, and a commitment to learning and understanding more about work across the whole organisation.
- Experience in performing a similar role in a start-up - or other high growth organisation.
Nice to have:
- Experience leading Machine Learning research programs.
- Experience leading programs within the drug discovery, life sciences, healthcare, or biotech domains.
- Familiarity with a wide variety of modern project management software packages.
- Experience running a PMO.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Biology, related fields or equivalent practical experience.
- Familiarity with technical concepts in machine learning, distributed systems, cloud computing, computational infrastructure, and data engineering is an asset, but not required.
- PMP, PgMP or other professional certifications in project management.
Culture and values
What does it take to be successful at IsoLabs? It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way, but we do have some shared values:
Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.
Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.
Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.
In this together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.
Creating an inclusive company
We realise that to be successful we need our teams to reflect and represent the populations we are striving to serve. We’re working to build a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared. We value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Hybrid working
It’s hugely important for us to be able to share knowledge and establish relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we’ve decided to follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tue, Wed, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to building an equal and inclusive team. If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.
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