R&D Program Management Lead — Gene Therapy

Crispr Therapeutics Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

On-site collaboration

Mentorship opportunities

Equity and benefits

Job summary

CRISPR Therapeutics, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Program Management in Boston to drive R&D program delivery across discovery, preclinical and early clinical development.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, set milestones, and manage strategic timelines to accelerate gene-editing therapies for patients. Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in program management within biotech, with strong leadership, communication, and regulatory experience.

Qualifications

• Degree in the life sciences with at least 3-4+ years of demonstrated program management experience managing cross-functional product development teams
• Senior Manager: 10+ Years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree; 8+ Years with an advanced degree

Responsibilities

• Drives program team(s) and is responsible for working closely with Program Leader and program team members to manage the operational aspects of the program(s), including developing overall strategy, tactical implementation plans, fully integrated program plan and timelines, and monitoring key milestones and decision points to drive delivery of program objectives
• Drives team objective setting, prioritization, and tracking ensuring adherence to plan and strategy
• Ensures cross-functional alignment and organizational support for the program plan and timelines by facilitating internal and external stakeholder management
• Implements project plan flawlessly; optimizes and tracks progress of project plans (time, resources)
• Interfaces and coordinates with relevant functional groups to ensure timely execution of program activities including anticipating and identifying program risks, mitigations and contingencies, and supporting timely action plans and issue resolution
• Drives issue identification and resolution and leads contingency planning for program team
• Ensures effective, proactive, and open communications, horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress, and issues, and, where necessary, engages line function management, other internal stakeholders and external experts to overcome obstacles
• Represents program to Senior Management; ensures effective communication to align program activities with corporate strategy, and ensure effective program execution
• Identifies and resolves conflicts at program team and functional team level
• Fosters a culture of ownership and single point of accountability with clear timelines, as well as ongoing evaluation, recognition and process improvement
• Is attuned to team dynamics and focuses on team needs directly and/or in partnership with other organizational leaders to ensure optimal team effectiveness
• Focuses operations to deliver results by influencing team members beyond existing benchmarks and their own expectations
• Leads ad-hoc cross-functional task forces and day-to-day operations of program team
• Ensures the development and use of key program management tools including GANTT charts, and the use of management logistics and documentation, by all team members, to enhance program delivery and information dissemination to the team and key stakeholders
• Ensures effective program team meetings, logistics and documentation
• For programs that are in alliances, drives reporting and program management with collaboration partners

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Communication

Biotech knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences

Advanced degree in life sciences

Tools

MS Project

Visio

ThinkCell

MS Timeline

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

CRISPR Therapeutics, Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Program Management in Boston to drive R&D program delivery across discovery, preclinical and early clinical development.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, set milestones, and manage strategic timelines to accelerate gene-editing therapies for patients. Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in program management within biotech, with strong leadership, communication, and regulatory experience.