Key Criteria/Requirements

• Ph.D. in microbiology with an undergraduate degree in chemistry, metallurgy, or biology
• Minimum 5 years of experimental design experience in bio-cementation, MICP or EICP
• People manager with minimum 3 years’ experience managing teams and technical development programs, determining project requirements, and developing work schedules for the team.
• Experience managing multiple labs and projects to success
• Oversight and Coordination skills, the ability to liaise with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standard.
• Ability to Identify risks and form contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Strong agile project management skills
• Good communication skills: ability to simplify the complex; ability to translate technical concepts into simple terms
• Willing to challenge others/critical thinking
• Boston-based or willing to relocate

Responsibilities & Measurable Accountabilities

• Build and coach a strong team
  • Ensure at least 80% of the team members are A players as defined by the Job Scorecard
  • Conduct quarterly coaching check-ins with all direct reports
  • Ensure individual growth plans (IGP) are complete and progressing for each person on your team
  • Proactively assess team resource needs (@ minimum quarterly)
  • Hire team members required per the growth plan utilizing Allonnia’ s hiring process
  • Foster close collaboration and learning with other Technical Team Leads
• Technical project oversight goals
  • All projects have documented Figures of Merit
  • All projects have clearly defined fast fail milestones with kill criteria
  • All projects have documented risks and mitigation plans
  • Ensure the scientists deliver high quality scientific experiments and results
  • Ensure technical workstream lead(s) achieves 80%+ of key milestones on time and on budget for the technical portion of projects
  • Identify a project as ‘No Go’ when appropriate
  • Ensure clear roles and communication with Allonnia commercial partners on projects
  • Review all results and presentations prior to CTO/VP approval and submission to customers to ensure high quality communication
• Technical workstream leadership
  • Lead technical workstream on 3-5 projects at the same time
  • Achieve 80%+ of project key milestones on time and on budget
• Communication
  • Lead project meetings and team meetings using meeting best practices
  • Ensure consistent and clear communication to Allonnia’s business development team
• Advancing the Allonnia Brand
  • Represent Allonnia with outside labs
  • Foster technical relationships with development partners
  • Present at 1-2 conferences/associations per year

JOB CODE: 1000041