Program Director - Life Sciences

We are seeking an experienced Program Director to drive execution of our Life Sciences Growth Strategy. This role serves as the operational backbone for a cross-functional portfolio of initiatives, ensuring that strategic priorities translate into coordinated, on-track delivery. The ideal candidate combines strong program management discipline with enough technical fluency to work credibly with engineering, product, data, and clinical/regulatory stakeholders, and enough business acumen to keep execution tied to growth outcomes.

This is a high-visibility, individual contributor role reporting into senior leadership, with regular exposure to executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams across the Life Sciences business.

• Own portfolio execution:
  Serve as the central point of coordination across the Life Sciences Growth Strategy portfolio, tracking scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and resourcing across multiple concurrent work streams.
• Drive delivery cadence:
  Establish and run program governance — status reviews, steering committees, roadmap check-ins — that keep leadership and stakeholders aligned on progress and blockers.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies:
  Identify and resolve interdependencies between engineering, product, data science, commercial, regulatory, and clinical teams; accelerate and unblock issues before they threaten timelines.
• Translate strategy into execution plans:
  Partner with leadership to break the Growth Strategy's priorities into structured programs, work streams, and milestones with clear owners and success metrics.
• Manage risk proactively:
  Maintain a live risk and issue log across the portfolio; drive mitigation plans and ensure risks are surfaced to the right decision-makers early.
• Report on progress and health:
  Build and maintain portfolio-level dashboards and executive-ready status reporting that clearly communicate progress, risk, and resourcing needs.
• Support resource planning:
  Work with functional leads to understand capacity constraints and help sequence work across the portfolio accordingly.
• Champion process improvement:
  Identify and implement process, tooling, or communication improvements that increase the speed and reliability of execution across the portfolio.
• Bridge technical and business conversations:
  Work fluently with technical teams to understand delivery realities, while translating those realities into business-relevant updates for non-technical stakeholders.

• 14+ years of program or project management experience, including managing complex, multi-workstream portfolios in a technical or product environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or driving execution of a strategic initiative at the organizational level (growth strategy, transformation program, multi-team platform effort, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of program management practices: road mapping, dependency management, risk management, resource planning, and status reporting.
• Comfort working directly with engineering and technical teams — able to understand technical constraints and trade-offs well enough to manage timelines and risk credibly.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience communicating with and influencing senior leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complex, cross-functional information into clear, actionable updates.
• Proven ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Experience in Life Sciences, healthcare, pharma, or a related regulated industry.
• Familiarity with regulatory, clinical, or commercial workflows relevant to Life Sciences organizations.
• Experience with program management tooling (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet,…