Corporate Program Manager, Firmwide
About the role
We are seeking a Corporate Program Manager to steward the company's highest-priority programs and initiatives, interfacing with the executive team and cross-functional partners to translate strategy into a cohesive, measurable plan. The role owns roadmaps, OKRs, and investor/team materials, and drives operating rhythms, governance, and systems consolidation.
Responsibilities
- - Steward the company's highest-priority initiatives, holding scope, owners and timelines from first definition through delivery.
- '- Support the Executive Team on critical initiatives with real-time visibility into status.
- '- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across Science, Platform, Technology and the Executive Team.
- '- Align Finance and Operations on resourcing and timelines within budget constraints.
- '- Surface risks, remove obstacles, and resolve dependencies.
- '- Steward roadmaps and planning artifacts from draft to execution, ensuring consistency and single source of truth.
- '- Collaborate with functional owners to gather input on schedule and deliverables.
- '- Create clear, cohesive narratives for executive communications and investor updates.
- '- Centralize decisions and updates in Notion and streamline communication in Slack.
- '- Drive leadership team effectiveness through operating rhythms and governance frameworks.
- '- Facilitate cross-time-zone leadership reviews and planning sessions that produce decisions.
- '- Consolidate project management tooling onto a single system and drive adoption.
- '- Own the operating model and cross-functional coordination to improve execution.
- '- Migrate projects, issues, and history onto a single project management system and define structure.
Qualifications
- - 5+ years supporting senior leadership or operations, including at least two startups or high-growth biotech/deep tech/science-driven environments.
- '- Experience stewarding high-stakes programs as the single accountable owner.
- '- Track record running programs across time zones with sustained momentum.
- '- Strong narrative sense and ability to fix incoherent documents.
- '- Experience consolidating teams onto a single project management system; focus on adoption.
- '- Deep working knowledge of modern issue tracking and project management systems, Notion, and Slack for automation/integrations.
- '- Comfort with automations and language models to handle coordination tasks.
- '- Structured thinking and execution mindset; ability to translate big goals into trackable milestones.
- '- Clear communication skills and ability to align without micromanagement.
- '- Start-up agility; comfortable with ambiguity and fast, pragmatic decision-making.
Skills
About Parallel Bio
Using the immune system to cure disease
Parallel Bio created a human 'immune system in a dish' to discover drugs and immunotherapies more likely to work in patients. Our platform has all of the same elements as a human immune system, meaning you can test drugs and vaccines as if you were testing them in actual patients from the start. The biggest reason why 95% of new drugs fail is that they were tested in mice - but with our human platform, pharma companies will know which drugs will successfully treat patients, speeding up the process and reducing the cost. To date our platform has successfully been used to test 12 drugs, and vaccines against 8 different diseases. The company is founded by Robert DiFazio, a former Stanford R&D director with a PhD in immunology, and Juliana Hilliard, a former System1 Biosciences R&D lead with an MSc in bioengineering, both of whom have led drug discovery programs for years.
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