Biotech Program Manager

Position: Biotech Program Manager Location: South San Francisco Type: Full-time Ohalo is hiring a Biotech Program Manager (PM) to lead one or several discovery, development, or production programs. You will manage and oversee programs focused on discovering molecules, or developing transformation or acceleration techniques, working at the molecular, cellular, and whole plant levels. This is a full-accountability leadership role: you will act as the general manager for a set of breakthrough technology programs, owning outcomes, defining strategy, and managing the work of cross-functional individuals from science, engineering, and operations. You will be responsible for setting deliverables, assigning work, developing and updating timelines, and ensuring on-time delivery of outcomes. This role requires a candidate who is competent with molecular or cellular biology or biochemistry (but is not necessarily a plant scientist), has experience designing, developing, and managing high throughput and automated lab workflows, has strong leadership and organizational skills, and is very capable and proven in leveraging AI tools to accelerate and scale work output. The ideal person thrives in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment and is excited by leading breakthrough scientific discovery efforts. Responsibilities: Program General Management & Accountability Own program success for one or more programs focused on discovery, process development, or production workstreams. Design high throughput and other technology-led methods for screening, discovery, and process engineering. Drive alignment across stakeholders and executive leadership and ensure crisp decision-making, escalation, and accountability. Own budgeting, forecasting, and analytics of managed programs. Cross-Functional Orchestration & Execution, Communications Build and maintain integrated program plans that connect complex biological systems with, for example, hardware and software systems, ensuring dependencies and critical paths are explicit and managed. Define program architecture at the “system level” (workstreams, interfaces, handoffs, validation strategy), and ensure teams execute to an integrated sched ule. Lead execution across science, engineering, lab and greenhouse operations, —coordinating interdependent projects into a single coherent program plan. Directly manage and drive execution of cross functional program team members. Proactively identify bottlenecks and unblock teams through clear prioritization, fast follow-through, and structured problem-solving.