Biology Program Manager Jobs in Newark, NJ (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Columbia University Irving Medical Center is seeking a Scientific Program Manager to coordinate machine learning projects in the AlQuraishi Lab. The role involves managing multiple research projects, ensuring timely deliverables, and facilitating communication among teams and external partners in biopharma and tech industries.
Responsibilities:
• In conjunction with PI, help manage and administer multiple team projects. Oversee general operation of key projects and ensure that ongoing administrative and operational processes support the goals and objectives of the research agenda. Plan and lead routine project team meetings.
• Decompose large projects into tasks and subtasks, and assign and track responsibilities across team members, ensuring timely execution of project requirements in accordance with deadlines.
• Direct and prioritize resource allocation to ensure that research deliverables are met.
• Informally and formally communicate results to, and receive and distill feedback from, external partners in participating consortia.
• Independently interact with external partners (such as pharmaceutical and tech company representatives) and key project personnel on behalf of Principal Investigator.
• Write formal and informal communications and reports regarding project progress and share directly with sponsors, collaborators, and other members of the leadership team.
Qualifications:
Required:
• B.S. in computer science / machine learning, computational biology, or related quantitative fields plus five years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Strong familiarity with key components of the research program, including machine learning, computational biology, and molecular sciences.
• Experience with scientific writing and sufficient familiarity with scientific aspects of research to draft text independently.
• Project management experience, preferably experience overseeing a large, multi-component project.
• Ability to troubleshoot tissue processing protocols including the isolation of viable cells of multiple lineages from disparate human tissue sites.
• Ability to troubleshoot the analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and high-dimensional flow cytometry data with computational biology collaborators.
• Ability to prioritize the distribution of tissue resources across a variety of projects in consultation with the PI.
• Support PI by maintaining oversight of all personnel working for the program (>15 personnel).
• Maintain awareness of team engagement; identify and respond to key challenges and areas of opportunity.
• With PI, set the strategy and establish standards for hiring, performance appraisal, and competency assessment.
• Establish job expectations and methods for measurement of standards for all personnel.
• Apply (and develop, to the extent necessary) tooling required for project management and tracking, including that of human-developed artifacts as well as computational artifacts and experiments.
• Help manage and organize sizable machine learning training runs (100s – 1000s of GPUs) and computational experiments (petabytes of data).
• Informally and formally communicate results to, and receive and distill feedback from, external partners in participating consortia.
• Independently interact with external partners (such as pharmaceutical and tech company representatives) and key project personnel on behalf of Principal Investigator.
• Write formal and informal communications and reports regarding project progress and share directly with sponsors, collaborators, and other members of the leadership team.
Preferred:
• M.S. degree in a relevant field is strongly preferred.
• Working experience with machine learning runs and job management is strongly preferred.
• Published scholarly work in related field is preferred.
Company:
Columbia University Irving Medical Center is a clinical and educational enterprise that offers medical, dental, and nursing services. It is a sub-organization of Columbia University. Founded in 1767, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.