Global Research Program Manager

About the role

The Global Research Program Manager will serve as the connective tissue between departments, driving operational efficiency and coordinating cross-team projects. This role involves managing key partnerships, overseeing technical tools and operations, and ensuring that training data is synchronized with frontier AI model releases. The successful candidate will support field scientists and production teams to ensure they can focus on pioneering research and development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop relationships with external technical and scientific partners, including universities and sequencing vendors.
• Own the operational coordination between the Global Research team and external sequencing providers, tracking timelines and resolving quality or capacity issues.
• Coordinate publication timelines across collaborations and ensure commitments regarding data return and sampling deliverables are met.
• Work across Global Research, Data Science, and Science teams to plan and execute cross-functional initiatives for foundational model development.
• Identify bottlenecks in internal workflows and implement new processes or tools to boost operational efficiency.
• Oversee the selection, implementation, and optimization of software tools and platforms used by technical teams.

Required skills

• Program management
• Project management
• Genomics
• Sequencing workflows
• Data pipelines
• Vendor management

Nice to have

• Access and benefit-sharing frameworks
• DSI governance
• Scientific publication coordination

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in life sciences, computational sciences, or a related field

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Private healthcare
• Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend
• Salary sacrifice pension
• Bike to work scheme
• Life insurance

About the Company

Basecamp Research is building frontier AI for therapeutic design using EDEN models trained on the world's largest proprietary genomic dataset. The company partners with biopharma companies and academic institutions worldwide to design cell and gene therapies, enzymes, and peptides.