# Senior Manager, Projects and Programs - Research at Xaira

- Company: Xaira
- What the company does: We’re pioneering the discovery and development of life-changing medicines through the transformative power of artificial intelligence. Backed by Lightspeed, NEA and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://xaira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $148K to $185K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xairatherapeutics/jobs/5205076007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xaira-senior-manager-projects-and-programs-research/

## About the role

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification.

## What they're looking for

- Support day-to-day planning and coordination of biologics research programs, ensuring execution of key activities from discovery through IND-enabling work
- Build and maintain project timelines that capture critical path, major milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
- Partner with scientific leads and functional stakeholders to align on scope, priorities, resources and progress
- Collaborate with scientific teams to define key project milestones, decisional experiments and translate into actionable, resource-information timelines
- Help compile project data, timelines, risks, value-realization, and trade-offs to support informed decision-making
- Coordinate and facilitate planning and documentation of decisive experiments, and update project plans based on results and next steps

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