Director, Commercial Project Management & Launch Excellence

Remix Therapeutics•Watertown, MA

1d•$206,000 - $252,000

About The Position

Remix Therapeutics is seeking a Director to translate commercial strategy into an actionable enterprise launch plan and drive alignment, accountability, and execution across the organization. The role works with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Market Access, Technical Operations, Quality, Finance, Legal and Compliance, IT, and Human Resources to connect workstreams, surface risks, and support timely leadership decisions. This hands-on leader will build practical processes, influence without direct authority, and move between strategic planning and detailed execution. The Director owns integrated launch management while functional leaders remain accountable for their respective strategies and deliverables. The position will lead integrated planning, coordination, execution, and tracking for the potential launch of REM-422, subject to regulatory approval. The expected base salary range is $206,000–$252,000 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Actual salary may vary based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
10 or more years of relevant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals, including substantial responsibility for commercial project management, launch readiness, or cross-functional program leadership.
Understanding of commercialization sequence and dependencies, including regulatory milestones, medical readiness, market access, patient services, field execution, distribution, supply, and commercial systems.
Ability to apply integrated scheduling, critical path analysis, capacity planning, change control, scenario planning, and risk management.
Ability to align senior stakeholders and functional experts without direct authority, resolve disagreements constructively, and secure clear commitments across competing priorities.
Demonstrated leadership of at least one product launch from prelaunch planning through commercialization, with direct responsibility for an integrated launch plan and governance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with a company’s first commercial launch is strongly preferred.
Experience in a small or emerging biotechnology company, including building capabilities with lean teams, limited infrastructure, and external service providers.
Experience with oncology and/or rare disease therapies.
Experience using Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or comparable project management platforms.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain an integrated launch roadmap, including workstreams, deliverables, accountable owners, milestones, interdependencies, and the critical path from prelaunch preparation through early commercialization.
Partner with leaders to translate launch objectives into functional plans, readiness criteria, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes; reconcile competing priorities and identify gaps between functional plans.
Establish fit-for-purpose launch governance, a cross-functional launch team, workstream meetings, decision rights, and escalation pathways.
Lead focused meetings with clear agendas, decisions, owners, and follow-up actions; maintain a decision log and route unresolved issues to the appropriate decision-maker.
Provide concise leadership updates on readiness, critical dependencies, and decisions required, presenting options and tradeoffs with a recommended path forward.
Build productive relationships across internal teams and external partners, clarify expectations, resolve handoff gaps, and address capacity constraints before they affect launch readiness.
Implement practical project management standards, templates, dashboards, and a shared source of launch information, keeping processes proportional to organizational size and needs.
Maintain an integrated register of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies; assign owners, evaluate potential impact, and track mitigation plans, contingency actions, and escalation triggers.
Assist in readiness reviews and launch simulations to test critical workflows, including prescription, coverage, dispensing, and patient support; confirm evidence of readiness and close identified gaps.