Senior Director, Project & Portfolio Management

What you'll do

• Build and lead an AI-forward PPM organization and partner with project leaders to develop strategies and high-performing teams.
• Develop and execute integrated project plans spanning research, discovery, clinical development, software engineering, and data science/machine learning.
• Partner with Compute, Operations, and Finance to establish agentic AI project-management, decision, and resource-allocation tools and methodologies.

What they ask for

• BS degree in a life science field.
• At least 15 years of biotech/pharmaceutical R&D and clinical development experience, including 8+ years in project/portfolio leadership of cross-functional matrix teams.
• Extensive drug-development knowledge, including translational stages, CMC workflows, early commercial assessment, and clinical development from IND into Phase 2.
• Exposure to designing and implementing agentic workflows in a pharma or biotech environment.

Nice to have

• MS or PhD; Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Google Suite, Smartsheets, generative AI tools/LLMs, high-content human data modalities, or machine-learning-enabled drug discovery.

Pay

$264,000 - $298,000 USD base salary

Tools

Google Suite, Smartsheets, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude

AI focus

Establish agentic AI project-management, decision, and resource-allocation tools and methodologies across the portfolio; exposure to agentic workflows is required.