Executive Vice President, Co-Director of Allen Institute’s Neural Dynamics Accelerator

• Foster a collaborative, high-performing scientific culture that emphasizes rigor, innovation, and inclusion
• Mentor and guide research staff, including group leads, postdocs, and early-career scientists
• Supervise the scientific and operational teams and foster their growth and development
• Co-lead the Program Management team with Operations Lead to establish, coordinate, and maintain cross-team alignment towards achieving research priorities and scientific goals

• Co-lead the strategic research agenda across core areas:
  • Advance understanding of how large groups of cells connect into neural circuits, process information and generate cognition and behavior
  • Monitor and manipulate spikes with high specificity to open up new avenues for understanding the neural underpinnings of behavior
  • Combine cutting-edge tools for recording electrical activity, such as Neuropixels probes, with reagents for identifying and perturbing specific neuronal cell types in living brains
  • Develop and advance technologies to support neuroscience research. This includes creating innovative tools and infrastructure to monitor and manipulate neural activity, as well as designing systems for data acquisition and analysis - their work is essential for advancing our understanding of how neural circuits function and how they can be influenced to study behavior and cognition
  • Map connectivity between defined cell type across the brain
  • Measure and control brain function using optical devices and light-sensitive molecules
  • Develop mathematical and computational models to understand how neural circuits process information and generate behavior
  • Accelerate scientific discovery by creating a best-in-class open, reproducible, and scalable platform for scientific data storage, analysis, and sharing. This team manages data standardization, automated processing, analysis infrastructure, and sharing
• Advise the scientific leadership team in the development of overall strategy and goals
• Support the development and implementation of tools, data resources, and standards to accelerate discovery
• Partner with other scientific leaders and teams across the Institute to drive cross-disciplinary projects
• Promote and support open science through data sharing, publications, and external engagement
• Represent the Allen Institute at national and international forums and serve as a thought leader in neuroscience
• Work with the scientific leadership team and Allen Institute executive leadership team to coordinate collaborative research, translation, and outreach efforts
• Development of tools and infrastructure to make data accessible and useable to the broader scientific community
• Pursue funding opportunities and collaboration across internal and external teams to accelerate discovery and impact

• Operationalize goals, milestones and timelines, through leadership of the accelerator’s scientific and operational teams with the support of an operations lead
• Provide oversight of budget management and forecasting and achieving operational efficiency towards deliverables
• Lead the annual goal setting process, working closely with the scientific Co-Director, the Operations Lead and program managers to implement and monitor performance metrics
• Proactively monitor and identify at-risk deliverables, transparently communicate issues, and work with stakeholders to identify options and implement mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with the Allen Institute Legal team in developing an Intellectual Property strategy
• Secure external funding and collaborate with philanthropic, academic, and industry partners to amplify impact
• Partner closely with the scientific leadership team and Allen Institute Communications team, in planning, preparing and successfully executing Scientific Advisory Board meetings, as well as completing Annual Reports and Annual Budget Reporting

Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., or equivalent in neuroscience, bioengineering, computer science, or a closely related field
• 12+ years of relevant post-PhD experience in scientific and/or technical leadership role(s)
• 15 years of research leadership with a strong track record of scientific achievement
• 7+ years of experience in leading operational efforts around research
• 7+ years of direct or indirect supervisory/management experience; building, leading and working across large research programs in nonprofit, academic, industrial or institutional settings
• Direct experience and successful record undertaking and managing multi-disciplinary and/or matrixed and integrated scientific programs of complexity and scale
• Understanding of diverse research relationships, operational frameworks, and research networks
• Expertise in two or more of the core focus areas
• Demonstrated ability to lead large research initiatives and mentor diverse scientific teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage with varied audiences

• Strong external partner relationship management skills working across disciplinary, geographic and cultural boundaries
• Understanding, appreciation for, and experience with, open science principles and practice
• Thoughtful partnership and emotional intelligence abilities to productively influence thinking and decision making across diverse initiatives and stakeholders
• Ability to work with abstract ideas and situations across various functional areas of the business/Institute operations
• Bold leadership and ability to think strategically to advance programs and initiatives

• May enter laboratory environment, including potential exposure to lasers, biohazards

• Fine motor movements in fingers/hands to operate computers and other office equipment; repetitive motion with lab equipment
• Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or reach

• This role is currently working onsite and is expected to work onsite for the majority of working hours. The primary work location for this role is 615 Westlake Ave N., with flexibility to work remotely on a limited basis. We are a Washington State employer; any remote work must be performed in Washington State.

• The successful applicant may be invited to attend occasional national and international conferences

• **Please note, this opportunity offers relocation assistance**
• **Please note, this opportunity may offer work visa sponsorship**

• $349,950 - $519,750 *
  
  * Final salary depends on required education for the role, experience, and level of skills relevant to the role, along with work location, where applicable.