Corporate Program Manager, Firmwide

Parallel Bio•New York, NY

12d•$155,000 - $172,000

About The Position

The company is building an alternative to traditional drug discovery by using human-first methods powered by organoids and AI, focusing on real human biology from the initial experiments. Their platform shows high concordance with clinical patient data, significantly outperforming animal models. They have established partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies and have secured substantial funding from notable investors. With supportive regulatory changes, the company aims to become the leading engine for generating human biological data to revolutionize medicine discovery. The Corporate Program Manager will be responsible for overseeing the company's most critical programs and initiatives, ensuring their successful execution. This role involves close collaboration with the executive team and various functions, translating strategic goals into measurable plans. Key responsibilities include managing company and functional roadmaps, OKRs, and investor/team materials, maintaining a single source of truth for all planning artifacts, and ensuring consistency in terminology and timelines. The role also establishes the organization's operating rhythm, defines clear ownership, and tracks measurable outcomes across functions and time zones, while also managing the consolidation of project management tools onto a single system.

Requirements

5+ years supporting senior leadership or operations, including at least two startups or high-growth teams in biotech, deep tech, or science-driven environments.
Stewarded high-stakes programs and the materials that represent them as the single accountable person for the process.
Run programs across time zones and know how to keep momentum across them.
Can tell when a document does not hang together and fix it.
Consolidated teams onto a single project management system before, and know that the hard part is adoption rather than data transfer.
Deep working knowledge of modern issue tracking and project management systems, plus Notion for documentation and dashboards and Slack for automation and integrations.
Use automation and language models as a matter of course, and expect the mechanical parts of coordination to be handled that way rather than by hand.
Bring clarity and order, breaking large goals into trackable milestones.
Planning is the starting point. The measure is whether deliverables land.
Write and speak with influence, creating alignment without micromanagement.
Comfortable with ambiguity, making fast, pragmatic decisions and keeping others moving.

Responsibilities

Steward the company's highest-priority initiatives, holding scope, owners and timelines from first definition through to delivery.
Support the Executive Team on critical initiatives and strategic opportunities, with real-time visibility into where everything stands.
Coordinate cross-functional initiatives spanning Science, Platform, Technology and the Executive Team, with priorities and dependencies visible to everyone who needs them.
Work in lockstep with Finance and Operations, ensuring resourcing and timelines reflect what the budget and the operating constraints actually support.
Surface risks, remove obstacles, and resolve dependencies.
Steward the company and function roadmaps from first draft through to the version the organization runs on.
Maintain one canonical version of each artifact, in a known location, and keep terminology, timelines and numbers consistent across every roadmap, deck and planning document.
Work with functional owners to bring in their contributions on schedule.
Make sure each artifact reads as a single argument, with the functional detail tracing back to the company priorities it serves.
Develop and calibrate content for executive communications, presentations, and strategic narratives for leadership, internal functions, and external audiences.
Centralize decisions, documentation, and updates in Notion and the project management tool, and streamline communication in Slack.
Drive the effectiveness of the Leadership Team through operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and accountability processes.
Facilitate business reviews, planning sessions, and leadership meetings across time zones, structured to produce decisions rather than a list of follow-ups.
Align leaders around priorities, decisions, and execution.
Improve the speed and quality of decision-making across the organization.
Own and continuously improve how the company plans, governs, and communicates.
Integrate priorities into quarterly, annual, and long-range planning.
Drive OKR governance, measurement, and accountability.
Protect the top priorities from everything competing for the same attention and resources.
Improve cross-functional coordination and organizational execution.
Own the migration of projects, issues and history onto a single designated project management system, and get the whole company working in it.
Define how that system is structured: project hierarchy, issue types, statuses, ownership fields, and how roadmaps map onto the work underneath them.
Drive adoption across functions, and retire legacy tools once migrations are complete.