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Arc Institute · 4 hours ago

Product Manager, Virtual Cell Challenge

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$165K/yr - $204K/yr

Arc Institute is a new scientific institution focused on basic science and technology development to tackle complex human diseases. They are seeking a Product Manager to lead the development and management of the Virtual Cell Challenge, coordinating efforts across teams to design the competition, engage participants, and measure impact.

BiotechnologyNon ProfitTraining

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop a clear understanding of competition users and their needs, be the voice of participants in setting vision and strategy for the Challenge

Coordinate the annual competition across Arc teams: Lead a cross-functional team to select data, build and iterate on the competition design, set rules, grow participation, and tell the VCC story

Build and run the competition website: Lead development of the platform with engineering and design teams, managing everything from user registration to final submissions, leaderboards, and data hosting

Manage the VCC community: Answer technical questions, manage help desk operations, troubleshoot application issues, and facilitate community discussions via Discord and other channels

Manage competition datasets: Work with experimental teams to generate, quality-check, and package genetic and chemical perturbation data, coordinating staged releases of training, validation, and final test sets

Plan and execute annual awards: Coordinate strategy and event planning for end of year competition awards, lead vendors to execute on each year’s event

Work with communications team on announcements: Help set comms strategy, create and publish VCC assets, and track participation and other metrics

Evolve the competition format each year: Work with Arc leadership to expand to new cell types, add new perturbation types, and scale to more valuable data

Build partnerships with sponsors and collaborators: Develop relationships with academic institutions, industry partners, and potential sponsors to enhance the challenge's impact and sustainability

Contribute to other Arc software projects: Apply product management skills to Arc's broader computational biology tools and platforms as new opportunities arise

Qualification

Product managementTechnical backgroundCommunity managementBio AI exposureUser interface designOrganizational abilitiesBias for actionLearning agilityCommunication

Required

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Technical background, ie in math, science, or computer science

Experience as a product manager or program manager working with highly technical teams

Excellent communication skills

Exceptional organizational abilities to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously

Strong bias for action and ability to drive results in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Preferred

Previous exposure to bio AI or computational biology

Track record of high impact in a fast moving startup environment

Experience designing user interfaces for technical audiences

Experience with community management

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

Company

Arc Institute

Arc Institute is a biomedical science and research technology company.

Founded in 2021

Palo Alto, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://arcinstitute.org

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