Director of Technical Delivery

About Life Science Connect Life Science Connect is dedicated to uniting life sciences professionals and suppliers to accelerate research, development, and manufacturing. We help professionals discover market opportunities by facilitating mutually beneficial connections between audiences and strategic partners. This accelerates the advancement of life-improving, life-extending, and life-saving therapies and devices. We serve a loyal, satisfied readership that demands original, compelling content with utility.

Our comprehensive suite of capabilities for B2B sales and marketing enablement contributes significantly to the creation and maintenance of robust business development pipelines for our partners.

Life Science Connect is pivoting from a traditional publisher to a Data Authority. We are transforming our infrastructure by migrating to a modern "Efficiency Stack" (Next.js, Snowflake, Azure). We have strong technical leadership in place to build the platform. We are now seeking a strategic leader to partner with the CTO in ensuring that our execution is predictable, data-driven, and aligned with business goals.

You will own the operational rhythm of the engineering organization. You will focus on performance intelligence, resource forecasting, and cross-team orchestration, ensuring that we ship high-value work on time and on budget.

• Performance Intelligence & Data-Driven Insight
  • Scoreboard Owner
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    You are responsible for the truth of our progress. You will define, track, and report on critical delivery metrics (e.g., Cycle Time, Planned vs. Actual, Release Predictability).
  • Executive Visibility
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    You will transform raw Jira data into actionable intelligence for the Executive Team, answering the question "When will this ship?" with data-backed confidence.
  • Process Optimization
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    While Engineering Leads own the code workflow, you identify bottlenecks, use data to highlight where the process is stalling (e.g., "QA is the bottleneck," "Requirements are unclear"), and drive operational changes needed to fix it.
• Strategic Resource Planning & Forecasting
  • Capacity Modeling
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    You will own the "Tetris" of resource allocation, forecasting our capacity against the product roadmap, ensuring the right mix of FTEs and contractors to hit targets without burning out the team.
  • Vendor & Budget Orchestration
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    You will manage the operational side of our "elastic" workforce (contractors/agencies), tracking SOW utilization, monitoring burn rates, and ensuring maximum ROI from external partners.
• Program Orchestration & Risk Management
  • Cross-Functional Alignment
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    You act as the bridge between Product, Engineering, and Tech Ops, ensuring dependencies are identified early so that a Product launch doesn’t fail because Tech Ops wasn’t told about a server requirement.
  • Governance Tracking
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    You will project-manage compliance initiatives (SOC 2, GDPR), ensuring tasks are tracked, evidence collected, and deadlines met.
  • Release Train Management
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    You coordinate the logistics of major releases, ensuring communication plans, rollback strategies, and stakeholder approvals are in place before deployment.
• Operational Leadership
  • Meeting Hygiene
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    You ensure agile ceremonies (Standups, Retrospectives, Planning) are efficient, focused, and high-value, protecting team Flow State by minimizing administrative overhead.
  • Communication Hub
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    You are the central nervous system for status updates, proactively communicating risks and changes to stakeholders to prevent surprises and maintain trust across the organization.

• Experience
  : 8-12+ years in Technical Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO) Leadership, or Agile Delivery Operations. You have experience running the "Business of Engineering."
• Data-First Mindset
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  You live in the metrics, comfortable using tools like Jira to visualize team health and performance, believing "what gets measured gets managed."
• Operational Discipline
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  You are highly organized, turning chaotic roadmaps into disciplined, executable plans.
• Stakeholder Fluency
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  You can speak "Engineer" and "Executive," translating technical blockers…