Sr It Program/Project Manager

Twist Bioscience is at an exciting phase of growth in business. In order to support the rapid growth at scale, the technology and engineering division is seeking an experienced, highly motivated program/ Sr project manager to join the IT Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance organization, supporting technical teams across diverse functional areas.

The ideal candidate will help streamline technical activities to support the prioritization, resource management, and execution of the project to achieve the company’s business objectives. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a proven track record in managing a range of complex, high-impact projects with strong organizational leadership and influencing skills.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with technical leads to develop detailed project plans and ensure proper hand-offs between internal customers and technical teams.
• Facilitate project team meetings, including status meetings, issue resolution, and risk mitigation.
• Experience on Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Manage project resources, including vendors and consultants.
• Plan, execute, and deliver technology projects on time, within budget, and within scope
• Supports the process of prioritizing and road mapping critical initiatives, load balancing based on the team’s bandwidth and facilitating trade-off decisions.
• Monitor project progress and ensure that all tasks are completed on schedule.
• Ensure that all project deliverables meet quality standards and user expectations
• Program/ Project Management Responsibilities:
• Manage project risks and issues and develop contingency plans as necessary.
• Ensure that project requirements are clearly defined and documented.
• Support the Infrastructure/SW/Applications development processes required to drive the IT implementation of projects.
• Provide regular status reports to stakeholders and project sponsors.
• Other Role Expectations:
• Manage project scope, including scope changes and change requests.
• Develop project plans, timelines, and budgets, and ensure that they are communicated to all stakeholders.
• Build high morale and team commitment to goals and objectives by creating a compelling sense of common purpose and direction.
• Lead cross functional business and technical meetings and work closely with enterprise customers acting as technology team liaison.
• Lead and facilitate security and infrastructure-related discussions with Finance, Product, Operations, Sales & Marketing, and other business stakeholders.
• Experience on IT Infrastructure and User Experience delivery projects that span in the functional areas of Collaboration tools; Audio Video; Network; System/Storage; Cloud; Information Security, DevOps; API/ Integrations etc

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Superior interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop important relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, Prince2, Agile)
• 5+ years of experience leading IT Infrastructure, SOX, ISO 27001 technical implementation projects
• Ability to identify, collaborate and resolve business process inefficiencies that directly affect systems operations.
• Highly adept at translating and communicating technical information to Business Stakeholders, and vice versa for communicating business / strategic information to technical teams.
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Champion process improvements for better project execution and deliverability, and enabling strong compliance traceability.
• Ability to make good business decisions and exercises sound judgment
• Ability to deal with uncertainty in a constructive manner and generate options for moving forward.
• Assertiveness to tactfully address concerns or conflicts openly within core and extended teams.
• Proficient with various project management tools and applications.
• Self-motivated, ambitious with long-term career goals and a willingness to grow into new areas.
• Prior experience in a startup and large-scale environments is a plus.
• Experience with project management tools and techniques, including Gantt charts, project dashboards, and risk management frameworks.
• Strong work ethic, commitment to the highest quality of work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to highlight issues to senior leaders, drive consensus and forge solutions, stay focused and on-point.

About Twist Bioscience

Twist Bioscience synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. Just as children learn to both read and write, the next phase of development for the genomics revolution is the ability to write DNA.

At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of people who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage, our unique silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers.

Twist Bioscience Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Twist Bioscience Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic characteristics, or any other category protected by law.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The base cash compensation for this California-based role is below. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for bonus, equity, and a generous benefits package. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate skill, experience, expertise, and location and may vary from the amount listed above. Compensation may be different in other locations.

San Francisco Bay Area Pay Range

$120,838 — $149,992 USD