Data Program Manager, Science

The role

You will help researchers develop and execute scientific data programs by connecting research priorities with data, expertise, and external partners. The role involves developing data strategies, building scientific partnerships, and managing commercial and operational execution.

What you will do

• Develop data strategies with Research.
• Find distinctive sources for research and build relationships across research and industry.
• Assess opportunities in scientific context by inspecting samples for provenance, context, quality and completeness.
• Shape partnerships with lasting scientific value.
• Lead commercial and operational execution including proposals, pricing and negotiation.
• Coordinate Legal, Privacy, Security, Procurement and engineering.
• Navigate sensitive collaborations and identify ethical, privacy, security and misuse concerns.
• Follow through into research use by coordinating preparation, ingestion, access and documentation.
• Make thoughtful portfolio decisions based on research value, cost, timing and capacity.
• Use code, APIs, automation and AI tools to improve sourcing, assessment and delivery.

Required qualifications

• Substantial grounding in biology, chemistry or related sciences through research, industry or equivalent experience.
• Delivered complex scientific, data or partnership projects.
• Depth in one or more of scientific data and evaluation, commercial partnerships or research collaborations across organisations.
• Ability to use Python, SQL, APIs and AI-assisted coding to work directly with data.

Nice to have

• Different combinations of scientific, technical and partnership experience.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through their products.