REGENXBIO

REGENXBIO

Senior Director, Global Program Development Lead - DMD/Neuromuscular

Rockville, Maryland · Director

Sponsorship not specified$235k-$335kDetected 173 days ago
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About the role

  • Accountable for cross-functional outputs, you'll guide the program's path forward by anticipating opportunities, mitigating risks, cultivating strategic options, and driving decision-making amid complexity and uncertainty to achieve long-term program success.
  • Identify key development challenges and define strategic options across functions, including timelines, budgets, risks, and trade-offs, enabling timely, high-quality decision-making.
  • Evolving and maturing the program's external communications strategy in partnership with key groups, including the elements of scientific messaging, competitive positioning, and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead overall program strategy, accountable for an integrated Program Development Strategy, Target Product Profile (TPP), and lifecycle management plan aligned with corporate objectives and long-term portfolio goals to maximize asset value.
  • Drive cross-functional strategic integration, ensuring scientific rigor and emerging clinical data, competitive intelligence, and evolving market dynamics inform program direction and critical decisions.
  • Support business development activities, including opportunity assessment and due diligence; represent the program on Joint Steering Committees for partnered assets.
  • Maintain external perspective and scientific credibility through engagement with KOLs, patient advocacy groups, and other external experts.
  • Drive cross-functional program execution within a matrix organization, ensuring high-quality, on-time deliverables while aligning priorities and resources to maximize program value and proactively resolve critical challenges.
  • Anticipate operational and strategic risks, establish contingency plans, and pressure-test assumptions, timelines, and budgets to maintain program agility and informed decision-making.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between the Core Team and governance committees, presenting program materials with clear, data-driven recommendations and actionable options to support timely approvals.
  • Build, influence, and sustain high-performing teams, guiding complex, high-stakes decisions without direct authority.
  • Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact program outcomes, challenging assumptions, timelines, and budgets while developing alternative scenarios to mitigate risk and maximize value.
  • Own the quality, integrity, and timeliness of team outputs, ensuring company-level decisions are informed by robust, high-caliber data; set pace and priorities to achieve milestones in a highly competitive landscape.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of drug development and commercialization processes, ideally within rare disease or gene therapy
  • Deep knowledge of neuromuscular diseases is highly desirable.
  • The ability to work well under intense pressure, tight timelines, and in rapidly changing situations

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Proven leader with 8+ years in pharmaceutical industry leadership, with a strong track record driving drug development programs through pivotal stages to commercialization
  • product launch and early commercialization experience is a strong plus.

Skills

  • Travel up to 20%

Compensation

  • We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefit & compensation package which includes market-competitive salaries, an annual bonus program, education assistance, retirement plan with employer match, stock options at all levels, summer hour

Company info

  • REGENXBIO is an exceptional place to work.
  • You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best and the brightest people, touch amazing science, and be a part of extraordinary plans.
  • Our core values: Trust, Accountability, Perseverance, and Innovation drive everything we do.
  • We aim to bring these values to life every day with all that we do, and we believe that what we do matters - to patients, to their families, and to their communities.
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