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About the Role

We are seeking a Project Manager, Biologics R&D to support the planning and coordination of biologics programs and projects across our early pipeline, from early-stage discovery through lead optimization and lead selection, with growing support into IND-enabling studies. This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong scientific background who has transitioned into a project or program management role or has taken on cross-functional project management responsibilities within research settings. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in biologics R&D, with the ability to manage timelines, track deliverables, and partner closely with scientific leads. This position emphasizes scientific understanding, team coordination, and milestone tracking, making it a strong fit for someone with a bench science background who has taken on increasing responsibility for project organization and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

Support day-to-day planning and coordination of biologics research programs, ensuring execution of key activities from discovery through lead selection and into IND-enabling work.
Build and maintain project timelines that capture critical path, major milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple concurrent programs.
Partner with scientific leads and functional stakeholders to align on scope, priorities, resources and progress.
Collaborate with scientific teams to define key project milestones, decisional experiments and translate into actionable, resource-informed timelines.
Help compile project data, timelines, risks, value-realization, and trade-offs to support informed decision-making.
Coordinate and facilitate planning and documentation of decisive experiments, and update project plans based on results and next steps.
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across research to ensure effective communication and documentation of decisions, alignment of priorities and timelines.
Schedule and run cross-functional meetings, ensuring clear agendas, effective documentation, and follow-up on action items.
Monitor interdependencies across functions and proactively identify, flag and resolve conflicts across workstreams.
Coordinate outsourced workstreams with CROs/CDMOs where applicable, including timeline integration and deliverable tracking.
Track project status, risks, and mitigation strategies; provide updates to internal stakeholders.
Coordinate with functional leads to understand resource needs and potential impacts to timelines.
Contribute to scenario planning and contingency thinking for critical path activities.
Identify operational challenges and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency and coordination.
Work closely with functional and team leads to understand resourcing needs, identify gaps and timeline impacts.
Develop scenario plans for critical path development decisions to support contingency and investment planning.

Requirements

Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or equivalent) in life sciences or a related field strongly preferred.
Minimum of 6+ years of industry experience, including hands-on biologics or drug discovery research with demonstrated project or timeline management responsibilities.
3+ years of project management or cross-functional project leadership within research settings preferred.
Experience supporting biologics discovery programs through stages such as target validation, hit discovery, and lead optimization.
Exposure to lead selection governance or IND-enabling workstreams is a strong plus.
Solid understanding of biologics discovery processes.
Familiarity with downstream nonclinical, CMC, and regulatory components is a plus.
Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills.
Excellent communication, time management, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with basic project tracking tools (Smartsheet, Confluence, Google Workspace, etc).
Working familiarity with project and program management principles.
Comfortable managing projects in a start-up environment which is fast-paced, cross-functional, and where processes are still being built.
Demonstrated ability to lead without authority and influence diverse teams.
Passion for science and dedication to improving patient outcomes through innovative biologics development.
Growth mindset with interest in advancing alongside programs as they mature toward IND-enabling development.

Skills

Project Planning
Project Execution
Timeline Management
Deliverable Tracking
Cross-functional Collaboration
Milestone Management
Decision Support
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Resource Planning
Scenario Planning
Smartsheet
Confluence
Google Workspace

Location

San Francisco Bay Area
Seattle
London

Work Type

On-site

Experience Level

6+ years of industry experience
3+ years of project management or cross-functional project leadership

Education Level

MS, PhD, or equivalent in life sciences or a related field

Salary/Compensations

$148,000 - $185,000 annually

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package
Open, flexible, and friendly work environment
Platform to develop long-term careers
Base salary
Bonus
Equity

About the Company

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development.
The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets.
It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification.
Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development.

Equal Opportunity

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer.
We believe that our strength is in our differences.
Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.