Translational project manager

About Serova

Serova builds personalized cancer vaccines. Each vaccine is made for the individual patient from their own samples and given in partnership with their treating physician.

The role

You'll run our blood-directed vaccine programs alongside our trial and vaccine lab lead, from the lab to patients: setting the plan, coordinating the teams, and driving go/no-go decisions on each candidate.

What you'll do

• Run each blood-directed vaccine program from lab results to first patients
• Get wet lab, bioinformatics, manufacturing, regulatory and clinical onto one timeline, and cut turnaround per patient
• Present patient-level results and program progress, and drive go/no-go decisions on candidates
• Manage our sequencing and CLIA lab partners to shorten turnaround
• Pull together the inputs for protocols, IND submissions and publications
• Coordinate with clinical on the observational and biobank studies that feed the programs

Who you are

• A scientist turned program leader who has run personalized therapy programs end to end
• You know the science well enough to make the call
• You keep everyone on one timeline
• High agency, friendly and low ego

Requirements

• A PhD in genetics, immunology, computational biology or a related field
• 3+ years leading translational or clinical programs across scientific, clinical and operations teams
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or London, or willing to relocate
• Authorized to work in the US or UK, or a realistic path to get there

What will make you stand out

• Personalized cancer vaccine or neoantigen programs, ideally across several trials
• Immunogenomics: neoantigen pipelines and tumor sequencing
• FDA-regulated, IND-enabled trials, with published outcomes
• You've worked with CLIA labs to speed up clinical sample turnaround
• Program leadership at a diagnostics or therapeutics company
• You've led and mentored teams of scientists

Details

• Location: San Francisco or London
• Type: Full-time