Technical Program Manager (Engineering), 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 a multi-disciplinary 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
As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in the planning and delivery of the company technology programme with a special focus on engineering projects. Your work will be a key component of enabling company-level engineering and computational research objectives spanning ML, data and research engineering, scientific applications development, computational physics, computational biology, and drug discovery.
What you will do
You will be responsible for the planning and delivery of a number of key technology projects within the wider tech programme:
- Partner with Engineering, Research, and Product leads to deeply understand technology roadmaps and to translate these into sound project plans, utilising your broad knowledge of program and project management best practices, including Agile/Scrum and PMBOK-style project management.
- Deliver the Technology organisation’s engineering programs and projects on-time, on-budget, and in line with quality standards by partnering with relevant stakeholders and driving progress at pace.
- Deeply engage with project teams on some of the most complex cross-organisational projects to define ways and sequence of work and dependencies, and proactively manage project issues and roadblocks to ensure efficient delivery.
- Develop and maintain an appropriate risk management strategy covering timely attention to risks, issues, and action plans.
- Continuously evaluate projects against success metrics and report key progress KPIs across your program to company stakeholders.
- Partner with other TPMs in the Tech organisation to ensure overall alignment between research and engineering initiatives.
- 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 projects.
- Contribute to leading other company projects and programs as necessary.
Skills and qualifications
Essential:
- Knowledge and expertise in program management for technology teams with the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while being able to adjust and adapt plans and strategies as project conditions change.
- Strong foundation in classical PMBOK-style and Agile project and program management.
- Experience in solving challenging technical problems, implementing scalable and sustainable solutions, bringing simplicity to complex processes and ideas.
- Experience managing externally-facing projects with multiple stakeholders, interfacing with collaborators, executing against and co-developing a larger roadmap, managing risks, etc.
- Experience with proactive project risk management.
- Analytical approach and ability to connect seemingly unrelated information and ideas, as well as different technical specialties.
- Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly changing environments - ideally in a start-up - acting as a sounding board as individuals go through the change cycle.
- 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 engineering 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.
- 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.
- Basic understanding of the drug discovery process.
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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