Director, Pre-Clinical and Clinical Program Management

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, biotechnology company focused on harnessing AI to decode untapped diverse chemistry to develop breakthrough oral medicines that can address persistent unmet needs in chronic disease. With our CONECTA™ platform, Montai has built the world’s leading foundation models for decoding the complex language between nature’s bioactive chemistry and human biology – supercharging the drug discovery process with unprecedented optionality and predictability.

The company has curated and annotated a collection of over 1B Anthromolecules™ and Anthrologs™, which are derived from molecules humans have chronically consumed in food, supplements and herbal medicines. This has enabled efficient access to chemistry with vast untapped structural diversity and the potential to selectively and precisely modulate complex biology. Montai is rapidly advancing a pipeline of first-in-class oral medicines for validated biological pathways in inflammation and immunology – focused on biologic replacements and historically difficult to drug transcription factors.

We are looking for an experienced Preclinical development Program Manager to provide critical support to preclinical/clinical development cross-functional program teams to drive the delivery of program goals. The position will work collaboratively with the program leads, teams, and functional area leads in a fast-paced and exciting environment at the heart of ensuring planning and achievement of our critical corporate goals. This role is focused on enabling teams to advance therapeutic programs from development candidates to First-in-human studies and beyond.

This is an exciting and visible role for a highly qualified and motivated individual.

The Program Manager is responsible to plan, execute, manage risk, and manage critical paths according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes engaging resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, third-party organizations where appropriate, and internal stakeholders to deliver program goals according to plan. Accountable to create program team governance to engage cross functional accountability of costs, schedules, scope, resources and track risks of programs and multiple integrated programs.

• Analyze program risks and identify impact while developing mitigation strategies,
• Identify and manage critical path, ensure appropriate program level definition across all stake holders and manage the program from concept to commercialization
• Monitor the overall progression of portfolio, including progress reports, milestones, key risks to achieving as well as key throughput and cost metrics
• Creates and executes program work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Mitigates team conflict and communication problems. Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner.
• Leverages program management tools to assist in the development of and adherence to established milestones and report status.
• Own and create appropriate levels of governance to ensure alignment and clear objectives
• Leads post-project reviews, identify root causes, distill key learnings, and ensure actionable recommendations are implemented and communicated across the program team.
• Work with Finance to implement and track program budget and forecasts, assist with operational and team meetings and other activities.
• Act as the source for information regarding the overall progression of the portfolio, milestone achievements, and risk monitoring
• Support strategic initiatives that enable teams to improve productivity and maintain focus on being an agile organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field. Advanced degree (MS, PhD or MBA) and/or PMP Certification preferred.
• A minimum of 3+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical industry. Previous experience in…