Director, Program Management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project management for major company initiatives spanning R&D, operational, and corporate objectives
• Track cross-functional project timelines, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure initiatives remain on schedule; identify risks, bottlenecks, and resource gaps, and collaborate with leadership to proactively address these issues; additionally, manage external grant responsibilities by tracking grant budgets, coordinating the preparation of technical and progress reports for grant program officers, and ensuring compliance with time tracking and other requirements
• Oversee people resourcing across project teams, ensuring appropriate staffing levels, workload balance, and reallocation as priorities shift
• Develop, implement, and maintain project management tools, dashboards, and reporting systems to improve organizational visibility and execution

Strategic Alignment & Integration

• Align R&D milestones and program goals with broader corporate strategy by coordinating activities across scientific and operational plans
• Focus 80% on program management and 20% on linking programs to strategy and operations
• Establish scalable project management practices and processes to support organizational growth
• Enable teams by creating clarity around priorities, responsibilities, and timelines

Leadership Support & Stakeholder Coordination

• Serve as a central point of coordination across leadership and functional teams, ensuring clear communication, accountability, and follow-through
• Support senior leaders by coordinating complex initiatives, preparing materials, and managing key deliverables
• Lead the coordination and preparation of grant and contract proposals, gathering input from scientific and operational stakeholders

Experience & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, life sciences, or a related field required. Advanced degree (MBA, PhD, or equivalent) preferred
• Experience: 8+ years of experience in program or project management within biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or similarly complex technical environments and ideally covering both pre-clinical and clinical stage programs
• Proven experience managing cross-functional initiatives involving both scientific and operational stakeholders
• Experience aligning R&D programs with broader organizational or corporate objectives
• Experience working closely with senior leadership to coordinate complex initiatives and priorities

Additional Qualifications

• Military command, logistics, or leadership experience is considered a strong plus
• Strong understanding of project management frameworks and tools
• Experience building operational processes and tracking systems in growing organizations
• Experience supporting grant development or scientific proposal coordination is a plus
• PMP or related program/project management certifications preferred

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies that Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.