Senior Director, Project Team Leader

- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead a matrixed team of experts across Discovery, Preclinical, Clinical, and CMC (Manufacturing), to drive project advancement.

- Strategic Planning: Develop and present options for the program for senior management, including timing, target profiles, and cost.

- Financial Oversight: Manage the program budget, including resource allocation, forecasting.

- Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of communication for executive leadership. Lead discussions within the team to interpret data and develop recommendations. Lead governance and technical discussions.

- Risk & Mitigation: Proactively identify "deal-breakers" in the development path. You don't just report risks; you build contingency plans to bypass them.

- Education: Ph.D, M.D.. or Master's degree in Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, etc.) or business.

- 15+ years in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, with at least 4 years in a dedicated project leadership or program management role

- Proven track record moving assets from research through IND-enabling and clinical studies.

- Ability to manage cross-functional teams, delegate appropriately, and strong understanding of what goes into high quality decision making

- Experience in areas from target validation and drug discovery through clinical trials.

- Experience utilizing AI tool in drug discovery and development

- Building effective organizational relationships at senior and peer levels to get important work completed

- A startup mindset-comfortable with ambiguity and able to alter direction when needed..

- Able to distill critical decisions to facilitate decision making. Able to clearly communicate in writing or presentation, and to so while minimizing misunderstandings or negative reactions.

- Through modeling and artful interactions, continue to build a culture of honesty, integrity and respect for the Altos organization and demonstrate our Altos Behaviors.

- Teamwork and Collaboration: focus on what is best for Altos