Technical Program Manager - AI Research Lab (x/f/m)

Doctolib; France; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Free health insurance

25 days vacation

RTT

Mental health coaching

Work from abroad up to 10 days/year

Lunch vouchers Swile €8.50

Sport club subsidy

Résumé du poste

Doctolib is building a European clinical AI research lab and seeks a Technical Program Manager to be the operational backbone. You will design and run core processes, manage research-to-product interfaces, and drive collaboration across scientists, data scientists, and engineers at-scale.

You will coordinate multi‑party roadmaps, triage requests, and push initiatives from concept to execution while ensuring governance and timely delivery in a healthcare tech context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in programme management, research operations, or high‑complexity roles.
• Ability to design and run processes from scratch across multiple workstreams.
• Fluent English with working French for academic-administration processes.

Responsabilités

• Design and run the Lab's core processes: portfolio management, roadmap tracking, async docs, decision cadence.
• Coordinate research and product roadmaps; lead regular interfaces and on-site workshops.
• Track dependencies, resolve blockers (data access, compute, contracts, admin).
• Run hiring logistics with Talent Acquisition and maintain candidate communications.

Connaissances

Programme management

Research operations

Stakeholder influence

Clear communication

Machine learning basics

Description du poste

Set a new pulse for healthcare!

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join the AI Lab team at Doctolib.

This is an opportunity to become the person who makes a new European clinical AI research lab work, from the inside, at an early stage.

The AI Lab is tackling long-horizon, high-stakes questions at the intersection of clinical AI, patient modelling, causal inference, calibration, privacy, and real-world evaluation , with access to one of Europe's largest longitudinal EHR datasets.

You will be the operational backbone of a rapidly growing lab, combining research scientists, data scientists, research engineers, PhD students, and research affiliates. Your role is to build and manage the processes, interfaces, and infrastructure that let researchers focus on research, within a product company operating at European scale, with real patients and clinicians on the other side of every decision.

What you'll do

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Own the operating model. Design and run the Lab's core processes from the ground up: portfolio management, roadmap tracking, async documentation, and decision-making cadence. Where a task recurs, build a process.
• Connect research and product. Understand both the Lab's projects and product teams' roadmaps well enough to propose concrete collaborations and follow them through. Lead recurring interfaces such as the bi-annual DS-Research workshop and monthly research on-sites, with agendas set in advance and pre-reads produced and read before the meeting.
• Filter and triage inbound. Manage partnership proposals, collaboration requests, and internal asks: answering or redirecting most, escalating only what merits researcher time.
• Track dependencies to resolution. Own operational blockers (data access, compute, contracts, academic collaboration administration) and drive them to closure with the relevant teams. For example: run a CIFRE application through the university, the doctoral school, and the ANRT fast enough that the intern starts the PhD without a gap.
• Run hiring logistics. Interface with Talent Acquisition to keep the pipeline moving: scheduling, candidate communication, process documentation, scorecard templates. Researchers keep the assessments.
• Map the ecosystem. Maintain a live view of labs, companies, and institutions working on adjacent topics; prepare targeting decisions for partnerships, workshops, and data challenges. Lead the first data challenge end to end, from platform setup and legal clearance to participant communication.
• Move information in both directions. Collect what the Lab needs from product, data, medical, legal, and people teams; report the Lab's scientific outputs, programme health, and critical risks to the company with clarity and precision.

Who you are

Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below but feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Have at least 5 years of experience in programme management, research operations, or a comparable high‑complexity role, ideally within an AI, engineering, scientific, or product environment
• Have a demonstrated ability to design and run processes from scratch, coordinate multiple workstreams across specialist teams, and hold a portfolio of priorities, dependencies, risks, and milestones with rigour
• Are able to influence senior stakeholders and expert teams without formal authority, and follow unresolved items until they are resolved
• Communicate with clarity and economy: you can make complex topics actionable for non-technical audiences and precise for technical ones
• Have enough understanding of machine learning to follow research discussions, judge which requests merit researcher time, and translate the team's goals for the rest of the company; deep domain expertise can be learned on the job
• Are fluent in English; working French is required, as academic‑administration processes (CIFRE, ANRT, doctoral schools) run in French

It would be fantastic if you:

• Have operated as Chief of Staff to a CTO, VP Engineering, Research Director, or Head of AI, or as a Research Operations Manager in an AI lab, university, hospital, or industrial research organisation
• Are familiar with academic‑industry collaborations, CIFRE, PhD programmes, grants, or data challenges
• Have experience with clinical AI, healthtech, model evaluation, AI safety, privacy, or data governance

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance (basic package) for you and your children
• 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth €8.50 per working day, with €4.50 covered by Doctolib
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• 50% reimbursement of your