Director / Senior Director, Program Manager

Role Summary

At LEXEO Therapeutics, the Program Manager (PM) provides end-to-end project and planning leadership of LEXEO’s medicines and teams. The PM serves as the operational leader of programs to ensure that the development plan is delivered on schedule, within budget, and with quality through product approval.

Location

Our work culture is a hybrid model with days in the New York City office and days working from home. We welcome applications from candidates located across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver annual operating plan for the project.
• Proactively develop program goals and manage activities across the program/portfolio to ensure achievement of deliverables.
• Leverage drug development expertise with solid understanding of project strategy, interdependencies, and disease content to help enable strategic discussions and decisions.
• Manage two or more early clinical development programs at LEXEO Therapeutics.
• Support business development and alliance management activities as required.
• Perform risk management and facilitate the creation of robust, cross-functional risk mitigation plans.
• Lead a cross functional development team utilizing project management/planning tools and software to develop program scenarios, integrated program plans, budgets, resource estimates, and study timelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Skilled in use of MS Office software suite and project planning system(s) to create, manage and communicate program timelines (e.g., Microsoft Project, Planisware).
• Excellent project management skills – drives execution while maintaining the highest quality standards.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, resourceful, collaborative, with a strong track record of high performance.
• At least 8 years of experience in drug development and a minimum of 4 years directly in project management.
• Ability to create data visualizations that provide insights and updates on the status of program and study progress, risk, and development scenarios.
• Strong communicator with an ability to succinctly summarize various parts of a project effectively and tailor messages to different audiences, including senior leaders.
• Leverage a broad range of leadership skills including situational leadership and ability to influence without authority.
• Experienced across most phases of drug development executing against the strategy and partnering with early/late-stage clinical development, medical, and commercial teams.
• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field.
• Able to deliver projects in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred qualifications in addition to above:

• Experience with academic organizations
• PMP® certification
• Advance degree
• Therapeutic knowledge of gene therapy research and development

Depending on qualifications and overall experience, base salary is likely to be $200,000 - $260,000 per year.

LEXEO Therapeutics is an EEO employer committed to an exciting, diverse, and enriching work environment.

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