Computation is revolutionizing drug discovery. Advances in big chemical data, massive computing power, artificial intelligence, and molecular dynamics simulation are changing the way we develop new drugs. At 1910 Genetics, we put computation at the heart of drug discovery, blending expertise in computational chemistry, structural biology, pharmacology, genetics, data science, and software engineering to develop drugs for previously undruggable targets.
Company Overview
Computation is revolutionizing drug discovery. Advances in big chemical data, massive computing power, artificial intelligence, and molecular dynamics simulation are changing the way we develop new drugs. At 1910 Genetics, we put computation at the heart of drug discovery, blending expertise in computational chemistry, structural biology, pharmacology, genetics, data science, and software engineering to develop drugs for previously undruggable targets.
You are someone we can count on to...
Coordinate software development amongst cross functional, multidisciplinary teams involved in all phases of drug discovery. You have experience managing technical and non-technical teams alike.
You understand data science-based projects in fast-paced, fail-fast, fail-cheap R&D to production environments.
You have proven experience implementing agile methodologies with a light-touch while guaranteeing focus, provenance, and reproducibility requirements in the earliest stages of R&D. Your deep understanding of the full product development lifecycle for cloud-based products and services helps you ensure industry standard rigor is applied to the bleeding-edge assets produced by our scientists and engineers.
You communicate and respond effectively and efficiently, while maintaining flexibility and a sense of humor. You are a humble team player who is willing to help with priorities across the growing organization as assigned.
You are excited about our mission and eager to join us on our journey to lead the AI transformation of drug development and find cures and remedies for the world’s health issues.
Your key responsibilities will include…
Communicating with internal and external stakeholders to define and execute project scope, as well as address new issues as they arise.
Writing well-defined and actionable user stories.
Manage the transition from single developer projects into software engineering teams by the adoption of Jira or an equivalent project tracking software as needed.
Determine when and if a user story has been completed to the satisfaction of internal users.
Overseeing and guiding:
Scrum, Kanban and/or Hybrid methodologies.
Converting promising AI models and systems into production-ready tools and platforms.
Remaining up-to-date with full product development life cycle for cloud systems to ensure industry standards.
Ensuring that each rollout comes with a backout/rollback plan, which change management is part of the collective consciousness, unit and regression tests are applied where appropriate, and the CI/CD considerations are part of the project plan up front. You and your teams are solving challenging but important scientific problems by delivering AI platforms and solutions.
Work Environment and Collaboration...
You will help the team achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work, removing obstacles, and mentoring less experienced team members.
You will work closely with computational chemists, biologists, AI scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure:
- consistent communication and alignment with goals;
- that tasks are selected appropriately to the rank-ordered backlog;
- roadblocks are addressed;
- collective ownership is maintained;
- leadership, managers, and stakeholders have real-time visibility to all projects.
Ideally, you have...
Preferred Qualifications:
Graduate STEM degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Engineering (some combination of formal biology and computation preferred).
- At least one of project management certification (e.g. Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum / Kanban Master, Six Sigma, etc.).
- 2+ years of agile project management experience using Scrum, Kanban, or Hybrid methodologies.
- 2+ years of project management of AI and/or ML projects.
- 2+ years’ experience with Jira and Monday.com (or similar project management tool, e.g. Asana, Wrike).
- 1+ years of hands-on work experience coding with modern web apps (e.g., React).
- 1+ years of hands-on work experience coding with data visualization platform (Tableau, Spotfire, etc.).
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business management, or a related field or extensive (5+ years) experience with full cloud software.
- 1+ years of agile project management and related experience.
- 1+ years of managing AI and ML based agile projects with PDLC SOPs in place.
- 1+ years of experience with projects that employ CI/CD rollouts with good change management practices in place.
- 1+ years using standard Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, etc.).
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively and help agile teams address roadblocks.
- Strong familiarity with agile (Scrum / Kanban or similar) project management tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, a sense of ethics, and a bias toward action.
- Proven ability to implement meaningful KPIs and value assessment methods.
- Practical database knowledge.
- Exposure to web apps (React).
- Experience with Jira and Monday.com (or similar project management tool, e.g. Asana, Wrike).
You will...
- Parameterize project scope and objectives.
- Estimate resources needed for tasks and objectives.
- Track resources (costs, person hours, etc.) throughout the project lifecycle.
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan.
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to targeted stakeholders.
- Draft, track, and deliver statements of work (SOWs).
- Manage contracts with vendors and CROs, monitor their progress.
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution.
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed.
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
- Participating in generating user stories.
- Preside over and facilitate project design sessions.
- Populating and managing the backlogs.
- Ensuring that pull requests into the production repos are vetted and tested.
- Ensuring that all the essential information to reproduce tested outcomes are captured and stored in version-control at all relevant steps of the PDLC.
- Ensure that the cost-benefit-risk assessments for projects, user stories, and tasks are adequately addressed and periodically updated as new information becomes available.
- Ensure that any significant changes to stated goals or outcomes are accepted by stakeholders before they are undertaken.
- Monitor and support the full product development life cycle (PDLC) including updating and/or creating SOPs where needed.
- Managing the CI/CD of AI and ML apps (e.g. new releases, change management, monitoring, support, and troubleshooting).
This position will require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
- Extremely generous equity package coupled with competitive salary.
- Flexible work schedule including 2 work from home days.