Generate Biomedicines
Project Team Lead (PTL, cardio-renal-metabolic)
Somerville, MA · Director
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About the role
- This is a Director-level role with broad matrix leadership responsibilities and significant influence across research, platform, translational, and portfolio decisions.
- This role is accountable for the overall success of assigned programs, including project-level decisions, go or no-go recommendations, and clear communication of program strategy, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
- Be accountable for the progress of assigned programs, including overall scientific direction, team effectiveness, execution quality, and readiness for key stage-gate decisions.
Responsibilities
- The PTL combines deep scientific judgment, strategic program leadership, and operational rigor to shape integrated research plans, drive execution, and ensure programs progress efficiently through key decision points.
- Working closely with the Portfolio Lead, project managers, and functional leaders, the PTL will facilitate cross-functional discussions, make recommendations, and own final project decisions within the team structure.
- The PTL will also represent programs in governance forums, shape portfolio strategy, and drive alignment across functions in ways that support broader company priorities.
- Develop and maintain integrated program strategies and plans that align scientific objectives, timing, dependencies, resourcing, budgets, critical path activities, and decision points.
- Facilitate team discussions, synthesize diverse inputs, make clear recommendations, and drive timely project team decisions and go or no-go recommendations.
- Partner with the Portfolio Lead and senior functional leaders to shape portfolio strategy, refine program direction as data emerge, and ensure execution remains aligned with company priorities.
- Drive execution across wet lab, computational, platform, and translational workstreams, ensuring scientific rigor, strong documentation, reproducibility, and high-quality data packages.
- Develop program resource plans and budget assumptions, and partner with the Portfolio Lead and functional leaders on final resource and budget decisions.
- Anticipate and resolve risks, gaps, and cross-functional dependencies to maintain program momentum in a fast-moving environment.
- Set clear performance expectations for the core team and build a high-performing, collaborative team culture grounded in accountability, transparency, and urgency.
Requirements
- Identify and advance therapeutic opportunities and target proposals by applying a strong understanding of biology, translational relevance, clinical context, and Generate's differentiated platform capabilities.
Nice to have
- Experience working on protein therapeutics and related modalities in discovery or development settings, including peptides and conjugate-based approaches.
- Experience with target selection and target validation, including assessment of biological rationale, tractability, translational relevance, and overall fit with portfolio strategy.
- Understanding of translational strategy, including PK/PD considerations and the role of translational studies in guiding program decisions.
- Familiarity with IND-enabling studies and early clinical development.
- Who Will Love This Job:
- A biomedical scienstist who loves hunting for novel targets and turning early scientific ideas into well-defined therapeutic opportunities.
- A scientifically grounded leader who enjoys owning complex programs and making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information.
- A person who enjoys connecting biology, platform capabilities, translational thinking, and portfolio priorities to move the most promising ideas forward.
Compensation
- The base salary range provided reflects our current estimate of what we anticipate paying for this position.
- Your actual base salary will be based on several factors, including job-related skills, experience, internal equity, relevant education or training, and market dynamics.
- In addition, you will be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a competitive benefits package.
- Per Year Salary Range
- $177,000 - $260,000 USD
Company info
- Founded in 2018, we are advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities.
- We bring diverse perspectives to a shared goal of delivering better medicines to patients in need, faster, guided by our values and leadership behaviors.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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