Program Strategy & Operations Director

Enveda•Boulder, CO

17d•$215,000 - $230,000•Remote

About The Position

Let’s build the future of medicine - together. Join Enveda as a Program Strategy & Operations Director and help us transform natural compounds into life-changing medicines. We’re a team driven by curiosity and innovation - are you ready to make a difference? Remote | Full-Time | $215,000 - $230,000 What Makes Us Enveda Life is smart, and we can learn from it. We’re reinventing drug discovery by harnessing nature’s intelligence. Our platform identifies new medicines four times faster than the industry standard because patients can’t wait. What sets Enveda apart isn’t just what we do - it’s how we do it. Our culture is built on creativity, collaboration, and deep respect for each other. We believe “People Create All Value”, and our success is driven by the extraordinary team turning our mission into reality every day. Our Momentum Unicorn status : Achieved following a $150 million Series D funding round in 2025 Discovery and innovation : Advanced our first drug candidate to Phase 1 trials in 2024 Award-winning culture : --Newsweek : Top 100 Global #MostLovedWorkplaces (2025) --Forbes : America’s Best Startup Employers (2024 & 2025) --Newsweek : America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces (2025) --LinkedIn : Top Startups to Watch (2024) These milestones reflect the impact of our team and we’re just getting started, but they’re only possible because of the diverse talent, perspectives, and relentless drive of our team, and people like you. Your Role in Our Mission At Enveda, every role drives impact, and we’re redefining what it means to be a Program Manager. Our Program Strategy & Operations (S&O) leaders are not simply trackers of timelines, they are strategic and operational copilots to the Asset Entrepreneurs who drive each of our therapeutic programs. You will be the connective tissue across a single-threaded asset team, transforming rich, cross-functional information into sharper strategy and faster high-quality execution. Your work will directly determine how quickly we bring our first-in-class natural-product-derived medicines to the patients who need them most.

Requirements

Experienced in biotech or pharma program management, portfolio or asset strategy, management consulting, or operations.
Have demonstrated the ability to synthesize information across disciplines and propose clear, data-driven strategic options.
Are known for your bias for action - gaps don’t linger around you; you move fast, collaboratively, and can’t rest until they’re resolved.
Have excellent communication skills and are able to craft compelling data driven slides, write crisp summaries, and lead discussions that drive decisions.
Leverage AI and digital tools effectively, using them to organize complexity, analyze data, accelerate workflows, and sharpen decision-making.
Your experience enables you to contribute meaningfully to high-level, long-term strategic decision-making, but you’re equally willing to roll up your sleeves and make things happen when needed.
Thrive in ambiguity and move fluidly between strategic vision and tactical execution.
Display emotional intelligence, humility, and integrity, leading through collaboration, not control.
Bring intellectual curiosity, analytical rigor, and a sense of optimism that lifts the team.

Responsibilities

Translate complexity into clarity by distilling scientific, clinical, regulatory, and operational inputs into actionable insights and forward-leaning decisions.
Own program execution end-to-end, identifying obstacles as efficiently as possible and doing whatever it takes to keep the program moving - whether that’s coordinating cross-functional dependencies, engaging with CRO partners, or designing dashboards that keep everyone aligned.
Operate as a strategic thought partner to your Asset Entrepreneur, anticipating inflection points, modeling alternative scenarios, and helping to determine when to accelerate, pivot, or pause based on data and risk.
Bring rigor and readiness to every forum, from Board updates to investor discussions,by delivering crisp data-driven slides, concise summaries, and decision-focused analyses.
Maintain disciplined documentation and operational clarity, capturing key decisions, assumptions, and benchmarks while keeping dashboards, trackers, and updates accurate, accessible, and action-ready for asynchronous alignment.
Contribute to Enveda’s institutional intelligence, documenting benchmarks, best practices, and learnings that make each future program faster and smarter.
Partner directly with the Asset Entrepreneur to define and evolve the development plan from IND-enabling studies through clinical development.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with functional experts in clinical, translational, regulatory, and CMC to ensure seamless integration of science and execution.
Manage relationships with CROs, consultants, and strategic partners to ensure deliverables stay on track and aligned with program priorities.
Contribute to the growing body of operational knowledge and rewrite our own playbook based on Enveda’s unique discovery and development engine.
Model curiosity, agency, and unity, creating a high-trust environment that amplifies creativity and accountability.