Ohalogenetics

Ohalogenetics

Biotech Program Manager

South San Francisco, CA · Full-time

No sponsorship$160k-$210kDetected 19 days ago
ForecastingBudgetingMolecular BiologyLeadershipCommunicationWritingOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • The anticipated base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000 per year for our South San Francisco location, which represents several levels for this function.
  • About Ohalo: Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential.

Responsibilities

  • Own program success for one or more programs focused on discovery, process development, or production workstreams.
  • Design high throughput and other technology-led methods for screening, discovery, and process engineering.
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders and executive leadership and ensure crisp decision-making, escalation, and accountability.
  • Own budgeting, forecasting, and analytics of managed programs.
  • Build and maintain integrated program plans that connect complex biological systems with, for example, hardware and software systems, ensuring dependencies and critical paths are explicit and managed.
  • Lead execution across science, engineering, lab and greenhouse operations, -coordinating interdependent projects into a single coherent program plan.
  • Directly manage and drive execution of cross functional program team members.
  • Create clear communication artifacts for diverse audiences-from technical deep dives to executive summaries.
  • Ohalo is hiring a Biotech Program Manager (PM) to lead one or several discovery, development, or production programs.
  • You will manage and oversee programs focused on discovering molecules, or developing transformation or acceleration techniques, working at the molecular, cellular, and whole plant levels.

Requirements

  • 2-8+ years experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or portfolios (R&D, biotech, agriculture, engineering, or related), with clear accountability for outcomes.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, computer science, or similar is a plus.
  • Strong technical foundation and systems thinking: comfort operating across biology + hardware + software/data and synthesizing ambiguity into executable plans.
  • Experience developing and utilizing high throughput automated screening and workflows.
  • Understanding of molecular biology, cellular systems, or plant biology.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional workstreams and deliver against timelines, milestones, and stakeholder commitments typical of program management roles.
  • Proven excellence in communication-able to influence without authority, negotiate tradeoffs, and create alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • High ownership, intrinsically motivated leader who is energized by mission-driven work and holds a high bar for follow-through.
  • Tech savvy, with strong AI utilization habits and comfort adopting new tools quickly.
  • The anticipated base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000 per year for our South San Francisco location, which represents several levels for this function. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.
  • About Ohalo:
  • Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, computer science, or similar is a plus.

Skills

  • The ideal person thrives in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment and is excited by leading breakthrough scientific discovery efforts.

Compensation

  • The anticipated base pay range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000 per year for our South San Francisco location, which represents several levels for this function.

Company info

  • Ohalo™ aims to accelerate evolution to unlock nature's potential.
  • Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population.
  • Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture.
  • For more information, visit www.ohalo.com.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
  • Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • No visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time.
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