Scholar Rock

Scholar Rock

Director, Program Management

Cambridge, MA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$215k-$250kDetected 134 days ago
Project ManagementLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • As a global leader in myostatin biology, a field focused on proteins that regulate muscle mass, the Company is named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures.
  • Learn more at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock on X and on LinkedIn.
  • As the organization advances apitegromab through late-stage development and into commercialization, this role ensures the Core Team operates with precision, velocity, and alignment.

Responsibilities

  • Meeting Governance & Rigor: Own the architecture of Core Team interactions. This involves more than scheduling
  • you will drive the agenda to ensure decision-making, personally capture and disseminate critical actions, and relentlessly follow up to ensure completion.
  • You will create the forum for these functions to align, ensuring that launch readiness activities are fully integrated with the ongoing development lifecycle.
  • Lifecycle Management: Support the Myostatin franchise beyond the initial launch.
  • You will help the team manage the operational complexity of a "pipeline in a product," ensuring that near-term launch goals do not compromise future indications or lifecycle expansion.
  • Proactive Risk Mitigation: Serve as the team's early warning system. You will identify operational risks-particularly those in the "white space" between functions-and drive them to resolution before they impact the critical path.
  • Meeting Governance & Rigor: Own the architecture of Core Team interactions.
  • This involves more than scheduling; you will drive the agenda to ensure decision-making, personally capture and disseminate critical actions, and relentlessly follow up to ensure completion.
  • Professional Orientation: A low-ego, high-output mindset. You prioritize team success over hierarchy and demonstrate a willingness to own tasks of all sizes-from strategic planning to administrative execution-to ensure the program succeeds.
  • Scholar Rock is seeking a Director of Program Management to serve as the primary operational partner for the Myostatin Core Team.

Requirements

  • You will provide the feasibility assessments and data required to evaluate trade-offs and make informed business decisions.
  • MS or BS Degree in a Scientific or related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology drug development, with specific experience transitioning a program from late-stage development (Phase 3/BLA) to commercial support.
  • Must possess a working knowledge of both Regulatory milestones and Commercial launch dynamics.
  • The ideal candidate has "lived in both worlds" and understands how program governance evolves post-filing.
  • Demonstrated ability to handle confidential and potentially material information with professional judgment and integrity.
  • Expert proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, MS Project) is required to drive reporting standards and visibility.
  • Technical Proficiency: Expert proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, MS Project) is required to drive reporting standards and visibility.

Compensation

  • $215k-$250k

Benefits

  • Education: MS or BS Degree in a Scientific or related field.

Company info

  • Scholar Rock is a late-stage global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing apitegromab for children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and other rare, severe, and debilitating neuromuscular diseases.
  • Our commitment to unlock fundamentally different treatment approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity.
  • Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients through its highly innovative anti-myostatin program, including opportunities in additional rare neuromuscular diseases.

Equal opportunity

  • Scholar Rock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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