Latent Labs

Technical Programme Manager

Latent Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Coordinate research roadmaps and ensure proper documentation and milestone tracking across the organisation.
  • Manage cross-functional project timelines including wet lab validation programmes, ensuring alignment between ML research, biology, and engineering workstreams.
  • Oversee CRO, lab vendor and collaborator relationships, holding partners accountable to deliverables, timelines, and quality standards.
  • Maintain project management tools and ensure consistent capture of initiatives, decisions, and progress across all active programmes.
  • Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, and blockers, working with leadership to resolve issues and keep programmes on track.
  • Drive process improvements to enhance how the team plans, prioritises, and executes on its technical and scientific goals.
  • Report to Senior Leadership, ensuring visibility into progress, risks and key decisions.
  • As a member of the operations team, provide wider operational support where needed.

Requirements

  • You have hands-on experience managing scientific or technical projects, with a demonstrated ability to guide programmes from planning through to delivery.
  • You have experience working across multiple application domains, comfortable navigating between different technical disciplines and stakeholder groups.
  • You are highly organised and detail-oriented, with a natural instinct for identifying risks, dependencies, and blockers before they become critical.
  • You have excellent communication skills and are confident aligning diverse teams - researchers, engineers, biologists, and external partners - around shared goals and timelines.
  • You are comfortable managing vendor relationships, holding external partners accountable to deliverables and timelines.
  • You hold a BSc or above in a scientific or technical field.
  • You have experience working in the AI for Science space, with an understanding of how machine learning is applied to scientific discovery.
  • You have worked across more than one sector, giving you a breadth of perspective on how to deliver programmes in different organisational contexts.
Benefits
  • Private health insurance
  • Pension contributions
  • Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
  • Hybrid working
  • Travel opportunities and more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementmilestone trackingwet lab validationrisk managementprocess improvementscientific project managementmachine learningtechnical project deliverycross-functional collaborationstakeholder management
Soft Skills
highly organiseddetail-orientedexcellent communicationalignment of diverse teamsproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationaccountabilityadaptabilitycritical thinking
Certifications
BSc in scientific fieldBSc in technical field