Director of Technical Delivery

About Life Science Connect

Life Science Connect is dedicated to uniting life sciences professionals and suppliers to accelerate research, development, and manufacturing. We help professionals discover market opportunities by facilitating mutually beneficial connections between audiences and strategic partners. This accelerates the advancement of life-improving, life-extending, and life-saving therapies and devices. We serve a loyal, satisfied readership that demands original, compelling content with utility. Our comprehensive suite of capabilities for B2B sales and marketing enablement contributes significantly to the creation and maintenance of robust business development pipelines for our partners.

The Mission

Life Science Connect is pivoting from a traditional publisher to a Data Authority. We are transforming our infrastructure by migrating to a modern "Efficiency Stack" (Next.js, Snowflake, Azure).

We have strong technical leadership in place to build the platform. We are now seeking a strategic leader to partner with the CTO in ensuring that our execution is predictable, data-driven, and aligned with business goals.

As the Director of Technical Delivery, you will own the operational rhythm of the engineering organization. You will focus on performance intelligence, resource forecasting, and cross-team orchestration, ensuring that we ship high-value work on time and on budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Performance Intelligence & Data-Driven Insight
• The "Scoreboard" Owner: You are responsible for the truth of our progress. You will define, track, and report on critical delivery metrics (e.g., Cycle Time, Planned vs. Actual, Release Predictability).
• Executive Visibility: You will transform raw Jira data into actionable intelligence for the Executive Team. You will answer the question "When will this ship?" with data-backed confidence.
• Process Optimization: While Engineering Leads own the code workflow, you identify the bottlenecks. You use data to highlight where the process is stalling (e.g., "QA is the bottleneck," "Requirements are unclear") and drive the operational changes needed to fix it.
• Strategic Resource Planning & Forecasting
• Capacity Modeling: You will own the "Tetris" of resource allocation. You will forecast our capacity against the product roadmap, ensuring we have the right mix of FTEs and contractors to hit our targets without burning out the team.
• Vendor & Budget Orchestration: You will manage the operational side of our "elastic" workforce (contractors/agencies). You will track SOW utilization, monitor burn rates, and ensure we are getting maximum ROI from our external partners.
• Program Orchestration & Risk Management
• Cross-Functional Alignment: You act as the bridge between Product, Engineering, and TechOps. You ensure that dependencies are identified early—so that a Product launch doesn't fail because TechOps wasn't told about a server requirement.
• Governance Tracking: You will project-manage our compliance initiatives (SOC 2, GDPR). You don't implement the security controls, but you ensure the tasks are tracked, the evidence is collected, and the deadlines are met.
• Release Train Management: You coordinate the logistics of major releases, ensuring communication plans, rollback strategies, and stakeholder approvals are in place before deployment.
• Operational Leadership
• Meeting Hygiene: You ensure that our agile ceremonies (Standups, Retrospectives, Planning) are efficient, focused, and high-value. You protect the team's "Flow State" by minimizing administrative overhead.
• Communication Hub: You are the central nervous system for status updates. You proactively communicate risks and changes to stakeholders, preventing surprises and maintaining trust across the organization.
  
  

The Ideal Candidate Profile

• Experience: 8-12 years in Technical Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO) Leadership, or Agile Delivery Operations. You have experience running the "Business of Engineering."
• Data-First Mindset: You live in the metrics. You are comfortable using tools like Jira to visualize team health and performance. You believe that "what gets measured gets managed."
• Operational Discipline: You are highly organized and structured. You excel at taking a chaotic roadmap and turning it into a disciplined, executable plan.
• Stakeholder Fluency: You can speak "Engineer" and "Executive." You can translate technical blockers into business impact and vice versa.
• Certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, or Advanced Scrum certifications are highly valued as evidence of your structured approach to delivery.
  
  

Why Join Now?

• Strategic Impact: You will provide the operational backbone for our evolution into a Data Authority, ensuring our ambitious vision translates into reality.
• Modern Environment: Work within a forward-thinking, remote-first organization leveraging the latest tools and platforms.
• Empowerment: You report directly to the CTO with a mandate to bring predictability and transparency to the organization.
  
  

We Invest in YOU

At Life Science Connect, our commitment to empowering innovation and facilitating growth within the life sciences sector extends to our employees. We offer a comprehensive total compensation program designed to support your overall health, financial well-being, and professional development.

In Addition To a Competitive Salary, You'll Enjoy

• Medical/vision/prescription/dental coverage for you and your family
• 100% company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance
• 100% company-paid life insurance
• 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%
• 15 vacation days and 6 personal days on day 1
• 13 company-paid holidays
  
  

To view all our job postings and showcases for some of our employees, visit: https://lifescienceconnect.com/careers/

Principals only. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.