Technical Program Manager

The Role

Generate is seeking a Technical Program Manager or Senior Technical Program Manager to lead interdisciplinary scientific programs integrating machine learning, computational biology, and experimental biology. This role involves defining cross-functional research and engineering roadmaps and enabling platform capabilities across wet and dry lab teams. Key responsibilities include coordinating with scientific and engineering leaders, driving technical goals, and facilitating collaboration.

Here's How You Will Contribute

• Coordinate interdisciplinary scientific programs by collaborating with scientists and engineers across computational and experimental teams to define roadmaps, priorities, and scope.
• Partner closely with scientific and engineering leads as a strategic thought partner to align modeling, experimentation, and data generation efforts and ensure tight feedback loops.
• Drive end-to-end planning and execution of cross-functional initiatives spanning wet lab and computational teams.
• Navigate ambiguity and evolving scientific priorities to track progress against goals, identify risks, and propose solutions.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across diverse teams, ensuring alignment on scientific objectives, milestones, and deliverables.
• Develop and manage stakeholder communications with scientists and engineers, including reporting, program updates, and metrics.
• Evaluate and improve ways of working across interdisciplinary teams to enhance efficiency, repeatability, and sustainability.
• Lead working sessions and scientific discussions to synthesize insights, clarify complex problems, and drive alignment on next steps.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience independently managing complex technical or scientific initiatives in fast-paced, evolving environments (AI/ML experience preferred).
• Demonstrated experience partnering with both computational and experimental scientific teams to coordinate research and development efforts.
• Strong ability to operate at the intersection of data science, engineering, and laboratory science, translating across disciplines when needed.
• Highest level of effective communication skills across all levels of an organization.
• Proactive ability to learn and acquire scientific domain knowledge to enhance impact.
• Ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative environment and build trust across diverse scientific and engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or PhD preferred in computational sciences, applied mathematics, life sciences, chemistry, bioengineering, or another relevant field.

About Generate Biomedicines

We are a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. We are advancing a new approach to drug creation—one grounded in the ability to design proteins with defined biological intent. By integrating machine learning with large-scale experimentation, this approach aims to reduce the uncertainty, time, and cost associated with developing protein-based medicines. Founded in 2018, we are advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities. By unifying computational design and clinical development within a single operating model, we translate this approach into clinical-stage programs and are leading a shift from traditional drug discovery toward systematic drug generation.

At Generate:Biomedicines

We collaborate across disciplines in new ways to invent and innovate. We bring diverse perspectives to a shared goal of delivering better medicines to patients in need, faster, guided by our values and leadership behaviors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Generate:Biomedicines is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Generate:Biomedicines does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Generate:Biomedicines or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Company’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Generate:Biomedicines and the Company will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

Compensation

Per Year Salary Range: $120,000 USD - $190,000 USD