Sage Bionetworks

Senior Scientific Program Manager

Sage Bionetworks

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $107,500 - $141,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Take full ownership of project delivery from initiation through completion, ensuring outcomes align with program requirements and success metric, in addition to organizational strategy and impact goals.
  • Translate strategic objectives into actionable project plans, milestones, and success metrics, leveraging project management tools and AI as needed
  • Build and maintain strong relationships, facilitate high-stakes multi-institutional collaboration and resolve complex alignment issues.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and facilitate collaboration among research, technical, and operations staff to achieve project milestones.
  • Anticipate risks, interdependencies, and resource challenges; develop and deploy decision-making, issue, escalation and risk mitigation strategies to maintain project momentum.
  • Develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
  • Advances operational efficiency by evaluating, implementing, and scaling best practices, technologies, and AI-enabled approaches that optimize end-to-end processes and strengthen operational reliability.
  • Partner with scientific program leadership to define priorities, drive decisions, and adjust project plans in response to evolving needs.
  • Uses deep scientific and technical context to guide program design and trade-offs.
  • Create transparent communication channels across teams, leading regular meetings, updates, and reports for internal and external audiences.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in biomedical research or health informatics
  • Have 5+ years of experience in scientific program management, biomedical research coordination, or health data infrastructure projects
  • Have experience leading highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder projects, ideally in research, life sciences, or data-focused organizations, with demonstrated ability to independently manage large-scale, high impact projects
  • Have expertise in agile, hybrid, or matrixed project management environments and tools.
  • Have experience in resource management (i.e. budgeting, forecasting, team member training and onboarding)
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability.
  • Robust retirement plan and flexible spending accounts (FSA).
  • Paid time off and flexible work arrangements.
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementbudgetingforecastingresource managementrisk mitigationscientific program managementbiomedical research coordinationhealth data infrastructureagile project managementAI-enabled approaches
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentorshipproblem-solvingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingdecision-makingadaptabilityorganizational skills