Vice President, Global Program Head

The role

The Global Program Head is the single accountable leader for a therapeutic program from late-stage development through launch and lifecycle management. You will lead a cross-functional global team to set program vision, strategy, and budget.

What you will do

• Own the integrated development and commercialization strategy from late-stage clinical development through regulatory submission, launch, and lifecycle management.
• Define program goals, milestones, and timelines, and build the budget and the resource and investment case.
• Weigh scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial evidence to guide prioritization and go/no-go decisions.
• Lead a global team across Clinical, Regulatory, Safety, Manufacturing and Supply, Medical, and Commercial.
• Drive progress against milestones, anticipate risks, remove obstacles, and escalate trade-offs.
• Partner with functional leaders to secure resources and raise resource, timeline, and budget issues.
• Prepare the program for engagement with global health authorities and for launch readiness.
• Present progress, risks, and investment needs to the CEO, Executive Committee, and Board of Directors.
• Represent the program with external partners, collaborators, investigators, and key opinion leaders.
• Coach and develop team members and emerging program leaders.

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences or medicine (MD, PhD, or equivalent).
• Track record of advancing a program through major clinical and regulatory milestones.
• Proven ability to influence, resolve conflict, and drive decisions among cross-functional teams, senior executives, and external partners.
• Strategic and analytical judgment, with the ability to build and execute complex strategies and make sound decisions with broad organizational impact.
• Proven negotiation and alignment skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to senior executives and boards.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of biopharmaceutical experience in drug development, including both early- and late-phase programs and pre-commercial preparation.
• 10+ years of experience leading and developing people and cross-functional teams, including in a matrix environment.
• Cardiovascular or cardiometabolic development experience.
• Experience leading a program through regulatory filing and approval; post-launch experience a plus.
• Experience with alliances or external collaborations, including negotiation and joint governance.
• Experience across more than one therapeutic modality.
• Strong planning and financial skills, including budgeting and defining the right metrics to track progress.

About the company

Kardigan is a heart health company working to make cardiovascular disease preventable, curable and no longer the leading cause of death in the world. It is Kardigan’s mission to develop multiple targeted treatments in parallel that bring people with cardiovascular diseases to the cures they deserve.