Project Manager

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, C++, Effective communication skills, Java Programming, Large Language Models - LLMs, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Project management, Python Programming

Job Description

​​Pangaea Data (Pangaea) is a South San Francisco and London based business founded by Dr Vibhor Gupta and Prof Yike Guo (Director Data Science Institute at Imperial College London; Provost, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). They have worked in medicine and computing for over 20 years and have raised over $300 million through their academic research, including a recent $110 million grant focused on development work on large language models in medicine. Pangaea’s product platform enables financially sustainable and scalable collaborations between the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries to help find more undiagnosed and miscoded patients across 7,000 hard-to-diagnose conditions. Pangaea’s advisors include industry veterans from healthcare and the life sciences, including Lord David Prior (former chairman, NHS England) and Mr. Andy Palmer (former CIO, Novartis). Pangaea was recognized as ‘Digital Solution of the Year’ 2023 by the UK government and awarded top tier co-sell partnership status by Microsoft, which is exclusive to only 25 of the 30,000 companies Microsoft works with globally.

The Role

As a Project Manager, you need to be able to understand the product and client requirements so as to bridge the communication between the clients and the technical team. Knowledge in NLP, AI and biomedicine will help you understand the product and client requirement better.

Key technical responsibilities:

• Understand the clients in life science (such as biopharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers) they engage with and the problems, pain points and requests they are seeing.
• Clearly communicate the client requirements to the technical team and clinical team, and clearly communicate the product features to the clients.
• Collaborate with the technical team, clinical team, and manage client projects with clear timeline.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (such as technical team, sales team, marketing team, clinical team) to prepare materials including presentation, grant applications, posters, research papers and other publications.
• Run early rounds of internal feedback gathering, before we launch to users.
• Understand the high-level company vision and goals, and make sure these are reflected in ongoing project management and client communication.

Requirements

Personal Traits:

• A strong intuition for what makes products a joy to use.
• Empathy for how different users will need different things out of a product at different stages, and how to effectively serve these different needs in one product.
• Strong communication and mediation skills.
• Strong people skills and the ability to engage all levels of the organization (especially the front line).
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English.
• A strong project management background in Life Science to understand how the user facing product will tie into project management, backend and architectural decisions. ​

​Technical Skills:

• Relevant work experience, including internships, full time industry/academia experience as a project manager.
• Experience in biopharmaceutical/healthcare industry, research and technology.
• With university qualification (Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate) who have completed at least two years of university study in Life Science, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or related.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Knowledge or experience (classroom/work) in AI, NLP.

Nice To Have

• Experience (classroom/room) on general programming languages: Python, C++, Java, etc.
• Experience with research communities and/or efforts, including having published papers (being listed as author) at conferences and/or journals in AI and/or medicine.

Perks And Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Salary dependent on experience.
• Benefits include private medical insurance, life insurance and travel cards.
• You would join a small, dedicated and fast-growing team.
• You will have the opportunity to learn about building a startup business from experienced professionals and serial entrepreneurs.
• We are currently supported by serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. You will have the opportunity to experience an investment life cycle for a startup and meet leading venture capitalists.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. ​

Application Contact Information

This position will be highly visible to senior management within our company and at our customer organisations. Experience and knowledge of managing AI and Data solutions for drug discovery or clinical trial or real-world evidence-based projects at scale is desirable.

Please send your latest resume along with a cover letter highlighting your relevant experiences to careers@pangaeadata.ai.

General Information

Pangaea Data’s headquarters is in London (UK) with teams in San Francisco (US) and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.pangaeadata.ai.

Pangaea Data is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.