Global Research Program Manager

The Role

We are seeking a highly capable and proactive Global Research Program Manager, Global Research to join our London team, embedded within the Global Research organization. You will serve as the connective tissue between departments, driving internal operational efficiency, coordinating cross-team projects, managing key partnerships, and overseeing the tools and operations that our technical teams rely on.

In this role, you will focus on optimizing processes, facilitating collaboration, goal setting/tracking and supporting the team in meeting deliverables, as well as liaising with counterparts through Partnerships with external partners.

You’ll report directly to the VP of Global Research, operating in tight dotted-line alignment with the Founding Technical Program Manager. In this capacity, you will ensure that training data is synchronised with Basecamp's frontier AI model releases. You will need to ensure that our team of field scientists and production team can focus on pioneering research and development. This is an ideal opportunity for a hands-on operator who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment where no two days are the same and wants to make a big impact on how a cutting-edge biotech company scales its operations.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in programme or project management within a scientific, research, or biotech organisation. You have coordinated complex, multi-workstream programmes with multiple stakeholders and delivered them

• A track record of holding scientists, field teams, and partner organisations accountable to timelines and deliverables without damaging relationships

• Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. You naturally build the process that prevents the problem rather than solving it repeatedly

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; you can produce a clear status report, a partner update, and an internal escalation without needing someone else to translate

• Experience managing relationships with external vendors or partners, ideally in scientific or technical contexts: comfortable evaluating services, tracking SLAs, and keeping providers accountable

• Scientific literacy: you don't need to be in the lab, but you should be familiar enough with genomics, sequencing workflows, and data pipelines to have informed discussions and spot where things are going wrong

• Proactive, resourceful, and independent: you spot issues before they escalate and rally the right people to fix them

• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change; Basecamp is scaling quickly and the playbook is still being written

Advantageous Skills and Experience

• Experience at a research funder (Wellcome, Gates Foundation, CGIAR) or a research organisation (ARIA, Crick, Sanger, EMBL) where scientific deliverables are tracked against contractual commitments

• Familiarity with access and benefit-sharing frameworks, DSI governance, or international biodiversity research partnerships

• Experience coordinating scientific publications across multi-institutional collaborations

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

• Prior experience at a high-growth startup or in scaling operations for a technical team

What we offer in return

• Impactful Mission: This is a rare chance to do work that genuinely matters. You'll join a talented, fast-moving team, access unique biological datasets at scale, and see your contributions shape real breakthroughs in AI and curative therapeutics..

• Collaborative Culture: You'll be surrounded by world-class engineers, scientists, and researchers who care deeply about their work and about each other. With offices in London and Boston, we've built a flexible, cross-functional environment where personal development and real ownership aren't just talking points.

• High Growth: We truly believe in investing our top talent, we make coaching available to team members during steep growth journeys and we have twice yearly promotion opportunities. People who are really successful here own it and go directly to solve problems at pace and we ensure reward increases with impact.

• Comprehensive Benefits: We've built a benefits package people value. That means competitive salary, equity, and private healthcare with no medical history exclusions so strong that means most employees' family members opt into our plan over their own. We also offer Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend, salary sacrifice pension, bike to work scheme, life insurance, and more.