Job Description

InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.
Join us to be a part of the AI revolution!
As BioNTech's AI research organisation, InstaDeep is leading the AI revolution in biology with breakthroughs like the Nucleotide Transformer[1], ProtBFN[2], and InstaNovo[3]. In the RNA group we develop AI for BioNTech's core technology, the foundation of the first Covid vaccine[] and the world's leading personalised cancer immunotherapy programme[].
As a Technical Program Manager you will facilitate and initiate projects at the frontier of AI, biochemistry, and medical research. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with world-leading experts in multiple domains, united by a common mission. You will directly influence the progress of pioneering treatments for the most serious diseases, from active trials to early stage research.
Role responsibilities

• The role includes aspects of project management, product management, and business development.
• Drawing support from across the company, ensure successful completion of ambitious initiatives at the forefront of AI and biochemistry.
• Take a pragmatic and hard working approach in supporting and unblocking colleagues.
• Organise information and establish practices to promote clarity and streamline work.
• Identify new opportunities. Coordinate and build momentum for their successful execution.
• Manage stakeholders, their expectations and satisfaction.
• Honestly and directly communicate business realities.
• Depending on your experience, ensure company focus is directed to the highest value opportunities.
• The role is likely to involve international travel several times a year.

Essential skills

• PhD or Master's degree in biology, medicine, AI, mathematics, or a related field.
• Exceptionally proactive, self-directed, and confident in self-learning as needed.
• Constant focus on outcome. Capable of keeping a strategic perspective while persistently addressing practicalities.
• Highly collaborative and personable. Able to create consensus and enthusiasm among stakeholders and participants.
• Highly effective at communicating with diverse audiences, both technical and non-technical, in writing and verbally. Ability to write quickly, clearly, and persuasively on complex topics.
• Experience organising and coordinating team projects.
• Organising and tracking deliverables, requirements, and tasks for teams.
• Identifying risks to successful outcomes in software projects.
• Effective at using modern software tools for all relevant skills.

Desirable skills

• Academic or professional experience as a researcher, software engineer, research engineer, or similar.
• Project management of software or research teams.
• Identifying opportunities in biology, software, and artificial intelligence domains.
• Designing and specifying user interfaces and user interaction.
• Experience communicating to audiences at corporate leadership level.
• Ability to institute processes to enable self-management in teams.
• Experience in geographically distributed teams.
• Educational or professional background in biomedicine or machine learning.

Our commitment to our people
We empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we're proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.
Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work in the location you are applying for.