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Twist Bioscience

Sr Staff Program Manager (PMO)

Twist Bioscience, Boston, Massachusetts, us, 02298


Sr Staff Program Manager (PMO)We are searching for a full-time Antibody Discovery Senior Staff Program Manager to join our team and help continue to develop strong customer relationships with large and small biotech organizations. The Program Manager will work closely with the Business Development and Project Management teams to coordinate custom B cell screening antibody discovery campaigns from early project design to final deliverables. In this role, the PMO will liaise between our partners and laboratory scientists and will be highly involved in business development at Twist Biopharma Solutions.

A significant part of the role will involve designing, planning, and coordinating therapeutic antibody development campaigns, including direct management of a portfolio of projects, partner communications, and interaction with scientific teams. The ideal candidate will have strong antibody discovery knowledge and direct (or indirect) biologics-based therapeutic drug development experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

Navigate the company's most complex, visible, and risky projects.

Provide strategic guidance to cross-functional teams and manage program risks and dependencies.

Provide technical consultation to our partners to enable optimal outcomes for antibody discovery campaigns, including those involving some of the industry’s most challenging targets.

Design and manage the execution of antibody discovery campaigns on the industry-leading B cell screening platform, the Berkeley Lights Beacon

Significant involvement in the business development process and early project discussion/design

Frequent communication with partners, including technical support and troubleshooting

Frequent coordination with antibody scientists and the business development team

Management of antibody discovery project timelines, scheduling, and deliverables

Data quality control and report analysis/presentation

Work with Finance to support the development and implementation of a standard process to invoice Biopharma customers in an expeditious manner as and when required

Assist Finance with navigating through the payments processed for invoiced milestones

Maintain a “real-time” revenue reporting system that includes all customer (revenue-generating) biopharma projects

Working with Product Management, the Biopharma team, and Finance, develop a Biopharma menu of services and sub-services with accurate COGS and end-user pricing to support customer quotes and proposals

Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements

What You’ll Bring to the Team

A passion for antibody discovery and development

Excellent client-facing experience and ability to successfully manage multiple projects

Experience managing cross-functional programs

Therapeutic antibody drug discovery expertise, ideally utilizing single-cell workflows.

Deep In vivo and antibody discovery industry experience and knowledge

Moderate to advanced knowledge of biologics characterization assays (SPR/BLI affinity ranking/measurement, ELISA, FACS) and functional assays (epitope binning, neutralization screening

Ability to troubleshoot scientific data and present data to customers

Strong written and verbal communication skills (required)

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree in relevant scientific or technical discipline required

Minimum 12+ years of Program / Project Management experience in the Life Science / Biotech Industry

Experience with both agile and waterfall project management, PMP Certification Preferred

Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to operate in a fast-paced environment

A team player looking to contribute strongly in a growing, hard-working, collaborative, employee-owned company environment

About Twist BioscienceTwist Bioscience synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. Just as children learn to read and write, the next development phase for the genomics revolution is the ability to write DNA.

At Twist Bioscience, we serve people who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals, and data storage, our unique silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers.

Twist Bioscience Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Twist Bioscience Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic characteristics, or any other category protected by law.

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