Technical Program Manager (Technical Infrastructure), London

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

We are on a mission to accelerate the speed, increase the efficacy and lower the cost of drug discovery. 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. 

Come and be part of a multi-disciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.

Your impact 

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. Your work will be a crucial component of enabling company-level computational research objectives spanning ML, engineering, computational physics, computational biology, and drug discovery.

What you will do

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

  • Partner with the Chief Technical Officer, Chief AI Officer, and other heads of engineering and research to deeply understand technology roadmaps and translate these into Technical Infrastructure (TI) requirements.
  • Partner with technical leaders and the finance group to establish and effectively manage a TI budget of $XXM.
  • 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.
  • Troubleshoot any arising issues with hardware procurement and operation.
  • Keep track of progress, make updates, and communicate TI status to all stakeholders (including executive leadership team) to ensure that everyone is informed and consulted as appropriate.
  • 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.

Skills and qualifications 

Essential:

  • 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 in solving challenging technical problems, implementing scalable and sustainable solutions, bringing simplicity to complex processes and ideas.
  • 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.
  • Analytical approach and ability to connect seemingly unrelated information and ideas, as well as different technical specialties.
  • Confident communicator, able to build meaningful relationships and use this to influence action and outcomes.
  • Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly changing environments - ideally in a start-up - acting as a sounding board as individuals go through the change cycle.
  • Proactive about acquiring knowledge to enhance the impact you have, demonstrate a curious attitude, and a commitment to learning and understanding more about work within the org
  • Experience working within either life science and medical research and/or ML research domains.

Nice to have:

  • Detailed knowledge of cloud-based technical infrastructure especially GPU and TPU
  • Background in software engineering / coding
  • Understanding of machine learning principles 
  • Basic understanding of the drug discovery process


Culture and values

What does it take to be successful at IsoLabs? It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way, but we do have some shared values:

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

In this together
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.


Creating an inclusive company

We realise that to be successful we need our teams to reflect and represent the populations we are striving to serve. We’re working to build a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared. 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

It’s hugely important for us to be able to share knowledge and establish relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. 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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