Associate Director, Scientific Program Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Sage Bionetworks

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit leader in open science that builds and operates data platforms and community-driven tools to accelerate biomedical research and discovery. The organization enables secure data sharing, large-scale dataset reuse, and collaborative analysis—often using machine learning and AI—to advance understanding of diseases, biomarkers, and therapeutic responses. Sage emphasizes radical collaboration, transparency, and infrastructure (e. g. , the Synapse platform and a Python client) to support researchers, challenges, and portals across a wide range of biomedical domains.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop Sage Bionetworks' Scientific Program Management function • Establish practices, standards, operating rhythms, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working for scientific program management • Lead a team of Scientific Program Managers and provide coaching, feedback, performance support, and career growth opportunities • Provide portfolio oversight and promote consistent, effective execution • Partner with scientific, technical, operational, and organizational leaders on priorities, dependencies, constraints, and resource needs • Identify competing priorities, capacity constraints, sequencing considerations, and organizational tradeoffs • Establish proactive program and portfolio-level risk, dependency, and issue management • Maintain mechanisms for communicating portfolio status, priorities, milestones, risks, dependencies, and resource needs • Develop portfolio reporting for leadership decision-making • Support and intervene in programs facing significant challenges, removing barriers and escalating issues • Develop program management tools, systems, frameworks, planning practices, reporting expectations, and risk-management approaches • Manage Scientific Program Management capacity and workload across programs • Drive continuous improvement and adoption of technology, automation, and AI-enabled approaches • Build a collaborative Scientific Program Management community through shared learning, mentoring, cross-training, and knowledge sharing • Foster accountability, collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and shared ownership

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • 7+ years of progressive experience in scientific program management or a closely related field, including responsibility for leading complex, cross-functional scientific programs • 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and/or developing Scientific Program Managers or other experienced program management professionals • Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or significantly improving a Program Management function, operating model, or organizational practice • Experience leading programs involving multiple scientific disciplines, teams, stakeholders, or organizational dependencies • Demonstrated ability to operate strategically while remaining close enough to program execution to identify and address emerging issues • Experience influencing decisions and creating alignment across teams and leaders without relying solely on formal authority • Strong judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving organizational needs • Extended periods of sitting at a desk and using a computer • Repeated wrist, hand, and finger movements • Clear vision for data analysis, transcribing, computer use, and reading • Ability to occasionally lift or move objects weighing up to 10 pounds • Ability to work effectively under deadlines • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills • Attention to detail and accuracy • Flexibility to adapt to changing environments, priorities and multitask • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Works well in a team and maintains professionalism • Follows company policies, procedures, and relevant laws and regulations • Ability to travel two times per year for on-site events in Seattle, WA • Please do not upload your resume as your cover letter (required)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability • Robust retirement plan • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Virtual-first interviews • Reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process