Corporate Program Manager, Firmwide

parallel-bio; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Bio is building a human-first drug discovery platform powered by organoids and AI. We are seeking a Corporate Program Manager to steward our most important programs, sitting near the executive team to translate strategy into a cohesive, measurable plan.

You’ll own roadmaps, OKRs, and planning artifacts, coordinate across Science, Platform, Technology and Operations, and consolidate our project management system.

Qualifications

• Experience steering high-priority initiatives with clear owners and timelines.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable roadmaps.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across Science, Platform, Tech and Ops.

Responsibilities

• Steward top-priority initiatives from definition through delivery.
• Provide real-time visibility to executives on status.
• Coordinate cross-functional programs with dependencies.
• Consolidate project management tooling and standards.
• Lead governance and OKR planning across teams.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Program governance

Roadmap planning

Tools

Notion

Slack

Job description

The Mission

Drug discovery has a translation problem: more than 95% of drugs that succeed in animal models fail in humans. We're building the alternative: human-first drug discovery, powered by organoids and AI, running on real human biology from the very first experiment.

Our platform is 87% concordant with clinical patient data - a vast improvement over the 3% translational success rate of animals. We've demonstrated the ability to model immunotoxicology, immunogen stimulation, and two autoimmune diseases with more on the way. Numerous pharma partners including 3 Fortune 500 companies are already using the platform. We've raised ~$30M from AIX Ventures, Marc Benioff, Jeff Dean, and Y Combinator. With the FDA Modernization Act 3.0 and the FDA's March 2026 validation framework, the regulatory tailwinds only continue to get stronger.

The opportunity ahead of the company is generational: build the first scaled engine for generating real human biological data, and use it to fundamentally change how medicines are discovered.

The Role

We are looking for a Corporate Program Manager to steward the company's most important programs and initiatives and see them through. The leverage here is high. You sit close to the executive team and the functions at once, translating between strategy and execution and bringing inputs from across the company into a cohesive, measurable plan.

The work covers the initiatives that matter most at any given time, along with the planning artifacts that represent them: company and function roadmaps, OKRs, and the materials that go to investors and to the team. That means holding a single source of truth, keeping terminology and timelines consistent across every artifact, working with function owners for the pieces only they can deliver, and getting the whole thing finished against a date that does not move.

The role sets the operating rhythm of the organization: sprint cadence, clear ownership on every initiative, and measurable outcomes. It runs across functions and across time zones, coordinating dependencies and surfacing blockers early. It also owns the consolidation of our project management tooling onto a single designated system, and getting the company working in it.

What You'll Own

Program Leadership

• Steward the company's highest-priority initiatives, holding scope, owners and timelines from first definition through to delivery.
• Support the Executive Team on critical initiatives and strategic opportunities, with real-time visibility into where everything stands.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives spanning Science, Platform, Technology and the Executive Team, with priorities and dependencies visible to everyone who needs them.
• Work in lockstep with Finance and Operations, ensuring resourcing and timelines reflect what the budget and the operating constraints actually support.
• Surface risks, remove obstacles, and resolve dependencies.

Roadmaps and Planning Artifacts

• Steward the company and function roadmaps from first draft through to the version the organization runs on.
• Maintain one canonical version of each artifact, in a known location, and keep terminology, timelines and numbers consistent across every roadmap, deck and planning document.
• Work with functional owners to bring in their contributions on schedule.
• Make sure each artifact reads as a single argument, with the functional detail tracing back to the company priorities it serves.

Communications and Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop and calibrate content for executive communications, presentations, and strategic narratives for leadership, internal functions, and external audiences.
• Centralize decisions, documentation, and updates in Notion and the project management tool, and streamline communication in Slack.

Team Effectiveness and Governance

• Drive the effectiveness of the Leadership Team through operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and accountability processes.
• Facilitate business reviews, planning sessions, and leadership meetings across time zones, structured to produce decisions rather than a list of follow-ups.
• Align leaders around priorities, decisions, and execution.
• Improve the speed and quality of decision-making across the organization.

Operating Model

• Own and continuously improve how the company plans, governs, and communicate.
• Integrate priorities into quarterly, annual, and long-range planning.
• Drive OKR governance, measurement, and accountability.
• Protect the top priorities from everything competing for the same attention and resources.
• Improve cross-functional coordination and organizational execution.

Systems Consolidation

• Own the migration of projects, issues and history onto a single designated project management system, and get the whole company working in it.
• Define how that system is structured: project hierarchy, issue types, statuses, ownership fields, and how roadmaps map onto the work underneath them.
• Drive adoption across functions, and retire legacy tools once mig