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Xaira Therapeutics · 1 month ago

Senior Project Manager, Research

Seattle, Washington, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$148K/yr - $215K/yr

6+ years exp

Xaira Therapeutics is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The Senior Project Manager, Research will support high-priority programs in the research organization, managing timelines and deliverables while collaborating with scientific leads and cross-functional teams.

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Responsibilities

Support day-to-day planning and coordination of platform research programs, ensuring clear communication of next steps, expected deadlines, and needs to stakeholders

Build and maintain project timelines that capture critical milestones, dependencies, and deliverables

Partner with scientific leads and functional stakeholders to align on scope, priorities, and progress

Collaborate with scientific teams to define key project milestones, decisional experiments and translate into actionable, resource-information timelines

Help compile project data, timelines, risks, and trade-offs to support informed decision- making

Coordinate and facilitate planning and documentation of decisive experiments, and update project plans based on results and next steps

Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across research to ensure effective communication and documentation of decisions, alignment of priorities and timelines

Schedule and run cross-functional meetings, ensuring clear agendas, effective documentation, and follow-up on action items

Monitor interdependencies across functions and proactively identify, flag and resolve conflicts across workstreams

Track project status, risks, and mitigation strategies; provide updates to internal stakeholders

Coordinate with functional leads to understand resource needs and potential impacts to timelines

Contribute to scenario planning and contingency thinking for critical path activities

Identify operational challenges and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency and coordination

Work closely with functional and team leads to understand resourcing needs, identify gaps and timeline impacts

Develop scenario plans for critical path development decisions to support contingency and investment planning to address potential delays, bottlenecks, or shifts in scope

Qualification

Biologics ResearchMachine LearningProject ManagementAnalytical SkillsStakeholder ManagementProject Tracking ToolsCommunication SkillsTime Management

Required

Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or equivalent) in life sciences or a related field strongly preferred

Minimum of 6+ years of industry experience, including hands-on biologics research with demonstrated project or timeline management responsibilities

Proven track record of managing research programs, both in wet-lab and dry-lab

Deep understanding of processes in biologics research and ML research

Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills; able to translate complex scientific ideas into clear plans

Excellent communication, time management collaboration, and stakeholder management skills

Experience with basic project tracking tools; advanced PM certifications or software expertise preferred but not required

This position will be required to be on-site in the Seattle office. Exceptions may be made for candidates who can work out of our SSF office, but Seattle is preferred

Preferred

Comfortable managing projects in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment

Hands-on experience both with wet-lab and computational research. Experience with data generation for training large machine learning models in biology would be greatly preferred

Demonstrated ability to lead and influence diverse teams, both functionally and at different levels of seniority

Passion for science and dedication to improving patient outcomes through innovative biologics development