Program Manager, Preclinical & Early Development

NURIX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nurix is expanding its Preclinical and Early Development Alliance & Program Management capability in Brisbane, CA. The role reports to the Senior VP and involves building integrated project plans, coordinating cross-functional work, and managing governance with external partners to keep programs on track.

Ideal candidate has a master's in a life sciences/engineering field and 7+ years in biotech/pharma project management, with strong facilitation and communication skills and the ability to drive

Qualifications

• Master's degree in life sciences, engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree a plus.
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Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated project plans with timelines and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional program planning across Research, Translational Sciences, Nonclinical Safety, CMC, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Biostatistics.
• Flag the practical impact of scope/timing/resource changes and advise next steps to leadership.
• Facilitate governance meetings and maintain a clear decision log.
• Draft minutes and ensure action items have owners and due dates.
• Track risks and develop contingency plans with program and partner leads.
• Prepare status reports and dashboards for governance reviews.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Meetings facilitation

Decision making

Education

Master's degree in life sciences/engineering

Job description

Program Manager, Preclinical & Early Development

Brisbane, California, United States

Reports to: Senior Vice President, Preclinical and Early Development Alliance & Program Management

Level: Associate Director - Director

Position:

Nurixis growing its Preclinical and Early Development Alliance & Program Management capability to support a growing portfolio of IND-enabling and early clinical programs, including partnered assets.We’re looking for a ProgramManager to join the team, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Preclinical and Early Development Alliance & Program Management.

This role covers two closely related kinds of work. The first: build and maintain integrated project plans for early development programs, working with functional leads across Research, Translational Sciences, Discovery Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, DMPK, Nonclinical Safety/Toxicology, CMC, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Biometrics to turn scientific and operational input into clear timelines, dependencies, and decision points. The second: run the day-to-day rhythm of a partnered governance committee, keeping the agenda, the record, and the follow-through,so a shared committee with an external partnercan reclaim theirfocus between meetings.

The PM will work closely with functional leads tounderstandhow work gets done, map how pieces of a program depend on each other, andidentifythe critical path and the practical impact when priorities, timelines, or resources shift. The role also supports program-level resourcing and forecasting alongside Finance and functional leaders.

Both parts of therolecall for turning discussion into clear, documented decisions, then follow through on each one. The Program Manager will also help define the tools, templates, and processes the function uses.

Responsibilities:

• Build andmaintainproject plans for assigned programs, covering timelines, milestones, resourcing, and dependencies.
• Work with functional leads and bench scientists to build realistic estimates of how long each piece of work will take, then turn those into program-level dependencies and critical path.
• Coordinate work across Research, Translational Sciences, Nonclinical Safety, CMC, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Biostats so each function's plan lines up with the program's plan.
• Flag the practical impact of changes in scope, timing, or resourcing (what shifts, what's at risk, and the best next step) for program and functional leadership.
• Facilitate project team meetings toward clear decisions and keep the decision log so the team has one record of what was decided and why.
• Run the governance committee's day-to-day rhythm and its subteams : build each agenda with the partner's project manager counterpart, pull topics directly from members and subteam leads, and sequence items so the most urgent gets the time it needs.
• Provide meeting materials and keep a shared repository that separates the current cycle from the archive.
• Draft and circulate minutes promptly, tie decisions to the meeting where it was made.
• Turn action items, internal or partnered, into named commitments with an owner and due date, and follow up before the next meeting to confirm they happened.
• Track and elevate risks and issues, and build contingency plans with program, functional, and partner-side leads.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, and materials for program review and governance meetings, so leadership has clear, current visibility into program health.
• Keep committee and subteam rosters current, flag staffing gaps early, support onboarding new members and leads, and track program and collaboration milestones.
• Support program-level resourcing and forecasting with Finance and functional leaders.
• Help define and improve the project management tools, templates, and processes used across Preclinical and Early Development as this capability grows.
• Build strong working relationships across the project management team, functional stakeholders, and external partners, and help keep a consistent standard of practice across programs.

Qualifications

Required

• Master's degree in life sciences, engineering, ora relatedtechnical field; advanced degreea plus.
• 7+ years of project or program management experience in a biotech, pharmaceutical, or CRO setting, spanning discovery through translational and early clinical development.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated project plans and translate technical or scientific input from functional experts into realistic timelines and dependency maps.
• Strong meeting facilitation skills, witha track recordof driving cross-functional groups to clear, documented decisions.
• Good judgment in weighing the downstream effects of program changes, with the ability to clearly explain trade-offs and recommendations to leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with scientists, functional leads, and senior leadership.
• Comfortable building relationships and getting things done without formal authority over the people involved.
• Organized and able to juggle more than one complex program at a time.

Preferred

• Background in immunology, oncology, or another complex therapeutic area, particularly with exposure to clinical pharmacology.
• Experience supporting formal governance structures with an external partner, such as joint committees or working teams under a collaboration agreement.
• Experience working within a project management structure.
• Allianceexperience.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Comfortable with a role that will change as the project management capability grows.

Location:

This role follows an onsite schedule, with an expectation to be onsite at our Brisbane, Californiaheadquarters at least five days per week.

Fit with Nurix Culture and Values

• Strong team orientation; highly collaborative
• Solutions and results-oriented focus
• Hands-on approach; resourceful and open to diverse points of view