Lead Programs Manager, Peptides

OpenLoop

Lead Program Manager at OpenLoop for the Peptides program, responsible for strategy and roadmap execution. Ensuring alignment and accountability across multiple teams for program success.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy. Define the multi-quarter roadmap for Peptides, including the metrics that matter, the bets we're making, and the sequencing that gets us there. Defend it to the executive team and adjust it as the market and our data demand.
Close the deliverable-to-goal gap. Continuously verify that what's being built matches the strategic plan — and when it doesn't, you're the one who escalates, re-scopes, or re-aligns. The gap between roadmap and reality is your accountability.
Set the operating goals. Translate company-level OKRs into program-level targets — clinical quality, patient outcomes, client retention, unit economics, growth velocity. Pick the right metrics; defend them against vanity alternatives.
Make build/buy/partner calls. Decide where we build, where we integrate, and where we partner. Bring data, scenarios, and a recommendation — not just options.
Lead without authority. Align Clinical, Product, Engineering, Pharmacy, RCM, Implementation, Marketing, and Client Success behind a single program direction.
Own the program narrative for senior leadership. Run the program review and translate complex operational and clinical dynamics into clear decisions and tradeoffs.
Guide Program Managers. You will guide and prioritize the work of Program Managers supporting the program. Direct reporting structure and team composition may evolve as the program and broader portfolio scale.
Own client outcomes for the program. Be the executive escalation point for major client questions and program-level commitments.
Translate client and market signal. Synthesize what we hear from clients, what the regulatory environment is doing, and what competitors are shipping into roadmap decisions.
Drive program-level commercial outcomes. Partner with Commercial and Client Success to make sure the program is sellable, expandable, and retainable — not just operational.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7–10+ years of experience owning programs, products, or operating units in healthcare, digital health, health tech, or closely adjacent fields. At least 3 years setting strategy and owning a roadmap end-to-end.
Direct experience of peptide-based therapies or closely adjacent care models, including understanding of the regulatory landscape around compounded peptides, FDA bulks list dynamics, peptide categories (GHK-Cu, BPC-157, semaglutide, tirzepatide, sermorelin, etc.), and the clinical evidence base — and limits — for each.
Track record of strategy ownership, not just execution.
Demonstrated cross-functional leadership.
Strong commercial and analytical instincts.
Exceptional written communication.
Built structure in fast-moving environments. You've worked at the velocity hypergrowth requires without letting documentation, protocols, and clinical/operational rigor slip.
Strong compliance instinct. Operating with rigorous attention to clinical, regulatory, and data-security standards. In a healthcare environment, program decisions carry compliance consequences — you treat documentation, escalation pathways, and audit-readiness as core program deliverables, not afterthoughts.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
Flexible PTO
401(k) + Company Match
Life Insurance, Pet insurance, and more

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Hard Skills & Tools

program managementstrategy ownershiproadmap developmentdata analysisclinical quality metricsclient retention metricscommercial outcomesregulatory compliancepeptide-based therapieshealthcare operational rigor

Soft Skills

cross-functional leadershipexceptional written communicationanalytical instinctsability to guide teamsalignment without authorityadaptability in fast-moving environmentsclient outcome focusstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder management