Scientific Project Manager

Summary

Join RefinedScience, a company dedicated to advancing healthcare through scientific discovery, as a Scientific Project Manager. This remote role, with occasional on-site visits to Aurora, CO, requires collaboration with various teams to execute technical and cross-functional projects. You will organize workflows, track deliverables, and facilitate collaboration. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical background in a scientific field and excellent communication and organizational skills. This position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to impactful research.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or technical field
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a strong background in technical writing
• Strong organizational and planning skills, particularly applied to scientific work
• Experience working as a team player in collaborative scientific and/or technical environments
• Willingness to travel to RefinedScience location (Aurora, CO) approximately once per week
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with academic partners, clinicians, data scientists, bioinformaticians, non-technical partners, business personnel, and other stakeholders
• Support planning, coordination, and tracking scientific projects across teams
• Help define project scopes, timelines, dependencies, and resource needs in collaboration with principal scientists and business team members
• Maintain clear documentation of project goals, decisions, risks, and timelines
• Facilitate meetings and onsite visits by project teams; capture and follow through on action items
• Ensure tasks are clearly defined and tracked in project management tools
• Communicate progress and/or blockers proactively to ensure delivery stays on track
• Support internal process improvement and team coordination efforts, helping to build repeatable project management best practices
• Contribute to preparing scientific and technical documents for both internal and external use

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of planning and organization of highly intricate projects/programs
• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) or other training or experience in a scientific or technical field
• Experience working in early-stage biotech environment
• Proficiency in standard project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet)

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Life, AD&D, Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance (none is 100% covered)
• HSA Spending Accounts
• 22 Vacation days
• 10 Paid Holidays and Sick Time (120 hours per year)
• 401(K) Plan
• Eligible for competitive discretionary annual bonus and equity compensation