comind - Senior Program Manager, R&D

• Owning the planning, coordination, and execution oversight of CoMind’s R&D programme portfolio across optics, data science / machine learning, and supporting clinical research • Working closely with the Chief Scientific Officer to translate scientific strategy and priorities into coherent, executable research programmes with clear milestones, dependencies, and success criteria • Acting as a senior operational partner and proxy to the CSO, representing R&D in internal forums and supporting preparation for executive-level and external-facing meetings • Supporting and enabling R&D managers by providing structure, tools, and processes to improve planning, prioritisation, and execution across teams • Establishing and maintaining effective research-appropriate programme management practices, including planning cadences, review forums, and decision-making frameworks • Defining, implementing, and maintaining high standards for R&D outputs, including reports, internal documentation, research summaries, and executive-level communications • Designing and maintaining lightweight but effective processes for knowledge management and onboarding, including approaches to literature review, internal knowledge sharing, and institutional memory • Working collaboratively across research, engineering, clinical, and product teams to ensure effective handover, alignment, and shared understanding • Continuously identifying opportunities to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and maturity of CoMind’s R&D operating model • Instilling and representing CoMind’s values of Velocity, Simplicity, Ownership, Curiosity, and Customer Obsession across the R&D organisation.