Digital Standards Program Manager — Cross-Functional Leader

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 101,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is seeking a Program Manager, Digital Standards to oversee cross-functional planning, execution, and delivery across the growing Digital Standards product and policy ecosystem.

This role ensures coordinated progress across multiple workstreams, including digital reference standards, qNMR software, supply chain analytics, digital documentary standards, USP digital method conversion, policy development, industry pilots, marketing, and scientific development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, science, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in project or program management, preferably within scientific, digital, regulatory, or healthcare environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi-stream programs.
• Demonstrated ability to track budgets, manage timelines, and report portfolio status at an executive level.
• Familiarity with digital product development, scientific workflows, or regulatory processes.
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Digital Standards portfolio roadmap, ensuring alignment across product, scientific, policy, marketing, and communications workstreams.
• Lead cross-functional program planning activities, coordinating objectives, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
• Track progress of all Digital Standards initiatives, including product development, policy work, pilots, marketing campaigns, and scientific deliverables.
• Establish and manage project governance structures, including meeting cadences, decision logs, and issue/risk escalation pathways.
• Develop integrated dashboards, portfolio reports, and KPIs for leadership visibility.
• Monitor budget allocations, track monthly actuals, and forecast future spending across program areas.
• Identify cross-team risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing gaps; surface mitigation recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain documentation including charters, schedules, risk registers, budget trackers, and communication plans.
• Support annual and quarterly planning activities, ensuring alignment with Digital Standards strategy and USP priorities.
• Facilitate cross-team communication to maintain transparency and ensure coordinated execution across all workstreams.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, science, engineering, or related field

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Planner

Asana

Jira

Job description

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is seeking a Program Manager, Digital Standards to oversee cross-functional planning, execution, and delivery across the growing Digital Standards product and policy ecosystem.

This role ensures coordinated progress across multiple workstreams, including digital reference standards, qNMR software, supply chain analytics, digital documentary standards, USP digital method conversion, policy development, industry pilots, marketing, and scientific development.