Managing Director

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Managing Director leading pandemic prevention and response initiatives for Blueprint Biosecurity nonprofit. Building a high-performing team and strategic communication with stakeholders.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and grow 6–8 senior leaders as a true manager-of-managers — coaching them, raising their leadership capability, and holding a high performance bar with empathy.
Build a high-trust, high-energy culture that pairs rigor and urgency with the morale and momentum demanding work requires.
Own execution across Blueprint's programs, including flagship initiatives like Project AIR, translating the North Star into ambitious, measurable goals.
Make and own hard calls — weighing trade-offs, flagging risks early, and driving work across the finish line.
Lead communications strategy, ensuring Blueprint's work reaches funders, partners, policymakers, and the public with clarity and impact.
Steward the government affairs function, sustaining the policy momentum influencing pandemic-preparedness funding and deployment.
Extend the Executive Director's capacity, representing Blueprint externally with funding partners, research institutions, and government stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

High-integrity, sharp, and hard-working — non-negotiables.
A galvanizing, hands-on leader — a builder and doer who brings energy to the people around you.
Self-aware and genuinely open to feedback, comfortable being challenged and quick to update.
A collaborative, evidence-based decision-maker with the judgment to make strong individual calls when it matters.
Aligned with Blueprint's values — Maximizing Impact, Agency, Extreme Ownership, Truth Seeking, Excellence, and Strategic Thinking.
Driven by the mission, bringing real urgency to pandemic prevention.
10+ years of leadership experience, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams to ambitious outcomes.
Proven people management — you have managed managers and intentionally built healthy, high-trust team culture.
A history of translating strategy into execution and complex initiatives into scalable results.
Strong stakeholder fluency across scientific, policy, and implementation audiences, with excellent written and spoken communication.
*Nice to have:* familiarity with biosecurity, public health, or pandemic preparedness (or a clear ability to ramp quickly in a technical domain); experience in nonprofits, startups, or other high-growth, high-ambiguity environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited PTO plus paid holidays.
Generous health and wellness benefits through an ICHRA, for you and your family.
Fully paid family leave.
Annual 401(k) contributions equal to 10% of base salary.
$5,000 annually toward professional development and productive remote work.
Access to multiple state-of-the-art LLMs; institutional access to major news outlets and publications.

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Hard Skills & Tools

people managementstrategic executionprogram managementdecision-makingstakeholder engagementcommunication strategyrisk managementgoal settingperformance managementteam building

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationself-awarenessfeedback receptivenessenergytrust buildingurgencyjudgmentadaptabilityintegrity