Manager / Senior Technical Program Manager (AI Science)

Location: Hybrid; required to work from the Alewife office in Cambridge, MA or the San Francisco office 3–5 days per week.

Expected base salary: $180,000–$256,000 USD per year, with bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

Building AI-powered scientific systems and instruments intended to automate the scientific method and accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end program management across Designs & Schemas, LIMS, Build & Order, Project Management, and ELN.
• Align requirements, dependencies, and timelines across programs spanning life sciences, formulations, and chemistry.
• Communicate scope, tradeoffs, risks, and timelines to technical and scientific stakeholders and resolve blockers early.
• Partner with the Engineering Director to design, operationalize, and improve engineering processes at scale.
• Scale agile practices, including Jira hygiene, sprint planning discipline, and backlog management.
• Define release gates, support intake processes, and operational dashboards for continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical program management experience managing complex, multi-team programs in a fast-moving engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to design processes from scratch and operationalize them at scale.
• Strong technical fluency with APIs, data models, schemas, and system integrations.
• Experience managing cross-functional dependencies across engineering teams and scientific stakeholders.
• Commitment to working from the Alewife office in Cambridge, MA or the San Francisco office 3–5 days per week.

Nice to have

• Background in biology, chemistry, materials science, or another experimental science.
• Experience with LIMS, ELNs, scientific registries, laboratory informatics, or scientific data platforms.
• Experience modeling samples, protocols, lineage, provenance, or inventory.
• Experience integrating scientific systems with automation or data infrastructure, including event-driven architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-speed environment focused on truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity.
• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible time off, and company-wide holidays.
• Paid parental leave, educational assistance, commuter benefits, bike-share memberships for office-based employees, and a subsidized lunch program.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive region-tailored benefits.