Senior Director, Program Management - Data Platform

About the role

Sana Biotechnology is growing, and we are hiring new team members who believe in the potential of engineered cells as medicines, who want to challenge status quo, and who lead with the desire to work on novel ideas. As a Senior Director, Program Management (Data Platform), you will report to the VP of Translational Technologies to provide leadership in strategic planning and execution of Sana's data platform. You will ensure agreement on Sana's data strategy and guide achievement of the company goals through excellence in project management of cross-functional teams and implement high-visibility data projects across the company. You will work with the technologies and business leads across Sana to plan and lead complex projects across multiple teams, including the oversight of multiple project plans and essential metrics.

What you'll do

• Lead the launch and project management of a cross-functional core team and subteams to support Sana's overall vision and implementation for data strategy including agreement of goals and timelines across core and subteams
• Lead program management efforts including leading face-to-face meetings, development of agendas, creation of meeting minutes, tracking of action items, and scheduling of follow-up meetings
• Identify potential risks, resource constraints, and conflicts that could affect project timelines; work with the Translational Technologies, IT, Technical Operations, and Development teams to develop appropriate solutions
• Facilitate cross-functional planning of activities across departments and program teams to align dependencies, schedules, budgets and delivery commitments
• Provide high-quality project management services to ensure team and project success by being strategic in project planning, team management and process management
• Understand the data platform technologies, business process and applications to remove roadblocks
• Help prepare presentations for executive, board and functional leaders and teams
• Engage important data platform partners across all levels
• Help manage team interactions and ensure that input from appropriate team members is obtained to support informed decision-making
• Work with leaders to build data standards around scientific data governance and ontologies
• Promote the application of FAIR principles
• Lead a small team for data platform related operations

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's in life science, Information Science, or Computer Science discipline plus 12 years or equivalent combination of education and work experience, and 5 years of experience in a project management and/or leadership experience supporting/leading cross-functional teams in a scientific environment
• Skills to be effective in a matrixed organization with geographically dispersed teams
• Preclinical, early stage CMC (process development) and IND filing experience
• Experience managing multiple projects or programs concurrently
• Experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build the relationships required to accomplish organizational goals
• Excellent communication skills with ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management, employees and external business partners
• Experience thinking and acting from an overall "best for the business" perspective and balancing priorities across several functional departments
• Experience planning and leading strategic programs

What will separate you from the crowd

• Cell or Gene therapy experience
• PMP certification
• Experience working with engineering teams that implement data platforms, data pipelines, data infrastructure or machine learning in biotech or pharma
• Experience with implementation of a data lake and integration of non-GxP and GxP data

What you should know

• Working safely in person on a predictable and regular in-person basis is an essential job function for this position, and the Company requires that all individuals working in-person be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including receipt of a vaccine booster shot if recommended by the CDC

How we work together

• Lead from every seat – we seek to understand, act with honesty, and engage in the crucial conversations
• Thrive as a team – we hire amazing people, are intensely curious, and cultivate inclusion and personal connectivity
• Make it happen – we value vigorous debate, alignment around our decisions, and resilient execution

Get to know us

At Sana, we believe that a diverse workforce strengthens us as a company and helps us to achieve our mission to meaningfully change the outcome of many human diseases. This belief is a pillar of our business and is critical to our success. Our goal is that Sana is the place for talented people to bring their authentic selves to work, to have a great career and to deeply, positively impact patients.

Core to our values, we believe there is nothing more important than the health and wellness of you and your family. For benefit eligible employees, we cover 100% of the cost for employee health coverage and offer generous time-off, parental leave, short- and long-term disability, financial wellness programs, a 401(k) Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, commuter subsidy and a variety of wellness offerings to support each person individually.

We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, age, gender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental or sensory disability (including the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability), genetic information, actual or perceived HIV or Hepatitis C infection, medical condition (cancer or a record or history of cancer and genetic characteristics), marital status, sexual orientation, sexual preference, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), disability, veteran status, political ideology, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The job description listed above is representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions described above.