Apply to Isomorphic LabsSenior Technical Program Manager (12 month FTC with potential to become permanent), London
Your impact
This is a great opportunity to have a direct impact on shaping Iso’s growing research portfolio at the cutting-edge of ML Research in Drug Discovery.
This is a fixed term contract to cover one of our colleagues who is going on parental leave, with potential to become permanent as the team is growing.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in planning, managing and organising Iso's cutting-edge ML Research landscape, to maximise success and ultimately achieve the company mission. Working closely with key stakeholders across various internal teams and external partners, you will build strong relationships and establish ways of working that enable SOTA ML research in the drug discovery space.
What you will do
You will oversee the overall research landscape at Iso:
- Partner with the CTO, Director of Machine Learning, and research project leads to create and deliver AI research strategies and roadmaps.
- Keep track of progress, make updates, and communicate project status to all stakeholders (including executive leadership team) to ensure that everyone is informed and consulted as appropriate.
- Collaborate and partner with Product, Data, Engineering, Technical Infrastructure and Drug Design teams to understand their roadmaps, capacity and interdependencies and turn these into a comprehensive delivery schedule in alignment with company objectives.
- Periodically analyse the schedule to identify and document risks, bottlenecks, and weak points within a risk management framework and will work with your stakeholders to appropriately design and deploy remediation strategies to keep the projects on track.
- Regularly bring stakeholders across teams together to get consensus on project decisions and resource tradeoffs.
- Seek opportunities to improve ways of working, tools or processes and lead projects to deliver solutions.
- Evaluate the success of projects against their aims, goals and objectives, and share lessons and insight across the wider business.
- Enable information sharing and create learning opportunities between internal and external interdisciplinary research teams.
- Organise and manage forums for senior research leadership to enable discussions and strategic decisions on the most significant research topics.
- You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining research collaborations between Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind and academic partners; this will include external senior stakeholder management, keeping abreast with external research topics, leading research forms for information exchange and decision making, and liaising with respective legal teams to enable world-class research collaborations.
Skills and qualifications
Essential:
- Extensive knowledge and expertise in program management for technology and interdisciplinary research teams with the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while being able to adjust and adapt plans and strategies as technical conditions and research landscapes change.
- Experience working within either life science and medical research and/or ML research domains.
- Strong foundation in classical project management 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.
- Confident communicator, able to build meaningful relationships and use this to influence action and outcomes.
- 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.
- Proactive about acquiring knowledge to enhance the impact you have, demonstrate a curious attitude, and a commitment to learning and understanding more about work within the org.
Nice to have:
- Natural/Life Science degree
- Understanding of machine learning principles
- 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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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.