Program Manager, Overleaf
Pharma
Online LaTeX editor
Job no longer available
Online LaTeX editor
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help make science and research faster, more open and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- Education In pharma or chemistry, PhD is a plus
- Experience of working on projects within the pharmaceutical industry or chemistry environment (whether directly or through a data solutions platform provider)
- Hands-on experience and proven success in leading projects using agile methodology and tools in a consulting set up, and experience with associated software (e.g. Jira, MS Project, Monday.com, Basecamp)
- Familiarity with technologies and trends in industry
- Familiarity with data analytics and business intelligence and related technologies such as databases and visualization/BI tools
- Proven experience with direct external customer interaction in a project management, technical or scientific role
- Self-starter, with experience of working under pressure and managing multiple conflicting priorities, across more than one project
- Efficient and thorough, with effective time management skills and flexibility in a rapidly changing environment
- Excellent organizational skills, the ability to run meetings and help schedule delivery as part of agile projects
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, presentation and demonstration skills in German and English. In particular, to clearly and accurately articulate complex solutions to all hierarchical and technical levels within a customer organization
- Proactive team player, with ability to identify problems and apply creative solutions
- PMP/Prince/Agile certification preferred
- Genuine interest in science and technology and the desire to continue learning to drive career development
What the job involves
- Manage all phases of project delivery for strategic custom projects
- Schedule and facilitate project review meetings for the purpose of updating and understanding project and delivery status
- Communicate effectively with clients, product sales managers and data science team on requirements and solutions
- Define key performance parameters and create regular variance reports to track progress
- Maintain ownership of, and accountability for, project schedules and budgets, ensuring milestones are being met on time and within budget
- Effectively communicate status of projects — including schedule variances and mitigation options
- Helping the client to create outstanding custom-built solutions
- Maintain compliance with corporate and public regulations
- Identify and make recommendations for improvement to existing processes and procedures
- Manage risks and issues that may arise as well as take appropriate measures to correct them when they occur
- Coordinate across multiple projects and their interdependencies. If relevant, ensure deliverables are aligned across related projects
- Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations
- Manage internal communication and expectations, escalation paths and any other internal comms required to ensure on time and as expected project delivery
Our take
Dubbed the Google Docs for science, Overleaf enables modern collaborative authoring tools for academics. Its primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports, and so on, written in the LaTeX markup language.
Despite being founded in 2012, it has experienced its largest phase of growth only relatively recently. This is partially due to an increased need for collaborative tools among scientists who are working in globally distributed teams, but also because of Overleaf's growing reputation as a sophisticated platform for academics. It passed the 10 million user mark in 2021 and has continued to grow steadily in popularity.
The company, in its own words, has entered a new era, and describes its goal as becoming the first port of call for scientific writing for researchers, students and enterprises alike. With a product under constant development and a large and enthusiastic community of users, it is well poised to achieve its aim.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Remote and flexible working
- You would join a small, dedicated and growing team
- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source
- We're backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we're part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech
- Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there's lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work
- You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we'll provide what you need
- We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
- We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
John Lees-Miller
(CTO)Previously served as a Systems Engineer for Advanced Transport Systems - Ultra PRT, Network and Website Supervisor for Lister Hall Student Association, and as CTO for A Virtual View.
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