Technical Programme Manager, Medical - London, United Kingdom - myGwork

Description

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Isomorphic Labs is a new Alphabet company that is reimagining drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach.

You'll be working at the cutting edge of the new era of 'digital biology' to deliver a transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in planning, procuring, managing and organising Iso's large-scale technical infrastructure (TI) fleet comprising a variety of ML compute clusters focused primarily on cutting-edge machine learning and scientific computing use cases.

You will be responsible for the procurement and management of the Iso technical infrastructure fleet:

Translate technical infrastructure requirements into a sensible fleet design, with a special focus on graphics accelerators like GPUs and TPUs.

Work with partners at Google Cloud Platform and Google-internal infrastructure teams to secure and deliver compute hardware according to the TI plan and taking care of contract negotiation, execution and other vendor management practices as part of regular and ad hoc Alphabet-wide hardware planning activities.

Oversee hardware utilisation and other operational metrics and ensure that the fleet is operated with a high degree of effectiveness, efficiency, and on-budget.

Periodically analyse the TI plan to identify and document risks, bottlenecks, and weak points within a risk management framework and will work with your stakeholders to appropriately design and deploy remediation strategies to keep the projects on track.

Seek opportunities to improve ways of working, tools or processes and lead projects to deliver solutions.

Evaluate the success of TI projects against their aims, goals and objectives, and share lessons and insight across the wider business.

Enable information sharing and create learning opportunities between various technical teams.
Contribute to leading other company projects and programs as necessary.

Extensive knowledge and expertise in program management for technology and interdisciplinary research teams with the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while being able to adjust and adapt plans and strategies as technical conditions and research landscapes change.

Strong foundation in classical project and program management.
Managing budgets of $XXM, including planning, monitoring, troubleshooting and working to identify efficiencies.

Experience managing externally-facing projects with multiple stakeholders, interfacing with collaborators, executing against and co-developing a larger roadmap, managing risks, etc.

Experience with proactive project risk management.
Experience working within either life science and medical research and/or ML research domains.
Background in software engineering / coding
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships.

It's knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we're doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

We value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Hybrid working
This is why we've decided to follow a hybrid model, and for full time positions we would
require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week
(currently Tue, Wed, and one other day depending on which team you're in). For part time positions this may vary.
As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to building an equal and inclusive team.

If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we'd be happy to talk through these if you're selected for an initial screening call.

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