Senior Program Manager, GSK

$131.8-178.3k

+ This position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role.

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Confluence

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA or Cambridge, MA)

Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.

Job no longer available

Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.

1001+ employees

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

Job no longer available

$131.8-178.3k

+ This position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role.

JIRA

Confluence

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA or Cambridge, MA)

1001+ employees

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

Company mission

At GSK, we use technology to deliver what matters most, better and faster. Whether it’s life-saving medicines or life-enhancing products, Tech at GSK helps scale and accelerate our expertise.

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Role

Who you are

Bachelors degree in IT Program Management, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant work experience
6+ years job-related experience
Experience with Program delivery for software applications
4+ years experience in Agile program/project management
Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence

Desirable

Demonstrated comfort operating and leading across organizational boundaries a matrixed team
Metrics-first mindset

What the job involves

The Senior Program Manager is accountable for supporting the Onyx Application Engineering vertical with program and project management needs, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of working including appropriate documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to ensure successful program/project delivery
The incumbent partners with Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable and high-quality plans that describe tasks required to deliver Onyx products across multiple engineering teams
A senior PM is expected to be able to consistently take a poorly defined problem with a large degree of ambiguity, work it to a well-defined problem / specification, and execute on it at a high level
Development and management of project plans; driving execution within scope, time and budget which may dynamically evolve to reflect change in customer needs or business constraints
Leading shiprooms and agile sprint ceremonies, project tracking/reporting and managing backlogs with product managers. This to include a single view of each project within the portfolio of work and their interdependencies, establishing effective OKRs, robust documentation and project value/financial tracking
Partner with Onyx engineering leads and product owners to implement good project management discipline (tools and process) across all product deliverables, including use of Jira, Confluence, and similar productivity software
Partner with Tech and partners in R&D to ensure that interdependencies are well understood and that all ingredients needed to understand complex multi-organizational work are brought together and presented as a whole. This includes identifying critical path items, milestones and interdependencies across Onyx
Defines appropriate tracking measures and building automated comprehensive as well as meaningful reports/dashboards; synthesizing data and insights from across a project or program of work to support teams make informed tactical and strategic decisions
Ensure that good risk management practice is embedded within Onyx projects and that risks and opportunities are identified, addressed or that risks requiring collective senior discussion are escalated to the Onyx leadership team

Our take

GSK Tech is set to build a suite of next-generation platforms for data- and prediction-driven drug discovery in support of GSK's Research and AI/ML organizations, and an industry-leading data engineering function in support of AI/ML and Genomic Sciences.

GSK’s ambitions go far past the data lake: they’re building a comprehensive data and machine learning ecosystem that can speak to the customers in their own scientific and technical language and semantics. Enabled by GSK Knowledge Graph, powered by machine learning, and underpinned by natural language processing, GSK's vision is for accessibility to data (and, importantly, the knowledge it represents). GSK wants to increase this tenfold, taking mere moments to find, access, and integrate the right information.

The creation of GSK Tech shows GSK's commitment to making a major investment in changing how we think about data in the research space, and levelling up the data experience for GSK's researchers, scientists, computational scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and ultimately decision-makers. As of 2024, GSK is putting more energy into its Cyber Security features, thus widening its market reach.

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Insights

45% female employees

6% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Company benefits

An annual bonus based on company performance
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support
Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements
Long term incentives through share ownership link your rewards to our longer term performance
Coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes
Plenty of opportunities for open conversations with people who can help to shape your career
A range of health and wellbeing programmes and support services to help employees understand how to feel healthier, happier and more energised at work and at home

Company HQ

Brentford, UK

Leadership

Luke Miels

(CEO)

Luke became CEO on Jan 1, 2026, after serving as CEO designate since Sept 2025. He joined GSK in 2017 as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for our commercial portfolio of medicines and vaccines.

Shobie Ramakrishnan

(Chief Digital and Technology Officer)

Has a broad experience in biotech and hi-tech companies. Has led Digital and Technology for GSK’s Global Commercial organisation, transforming the company’s capabilities in digital, data & analytics.

Michael Elmore

(SVP & Global Chief Information Security Officer)

Experienced in building and leading tech teams across cyber security, IT infrastructure, application development, and more. A trusted advisor to VCs and startups focusing on cybersecurity advancements.

Shubha Chaudhari

(SVP, Development Digital & Tech)

Previously worked at Novartis in several roles, including Head of Clinical Informatics, Global Head of Development Informatics, and Head of Digital Transformation.

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