Managing Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia.

📋 Description

• Oversee and develop 6–8 senior leaders as a true manager-of-managers, providing coaching, enhancing their leadership skills, and maintaining a high-performance standard with empathy.

• Foster a culture that emphasizes trust and high energy, blending rigor and urgency with the morale and momentum essential for demanding work.

• Take ownership of execution across Blueprint's programs, including key initiatives like Project AIR, translating the overarching goals into ambitious, measurable objectives.

• Make and take responsibility for difficult decisions—evaluating trade-offs, identifying risks early, and ensuring projects reach completion.

• Direct the communications strategy, guaranteeing that Blueprint's efforts are communicated effectively to funders, partners, policymakers, and the public.

• Oversee the government affairs function, maintaining the policy momentum that influences funding and deployment for pandemic preparedness.

• Enhance the capacity of the Executive Director by representing Blueprint externally with funding partners, research institutions, and government stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• High integrity, sharp intellect, and a strong work ethic—these are non-negotiable attributes.

• A dynamic, hands-on leader who builds and does, bringing energy to those around you.

• Self-aware and genuinely receptive to feedback, comfortable with challenges, and quick to adapt.

• A collaborative, evidence-driven decision-maker with the judgment to make decisive calls when necessary.

• Alignment with Blueprint's values—Maximizing Impact, Agency, Extreme Ownership, Truth Seeking, Excellence, and Strategic Thinking.

• Driven by the mission, with a real sense of urgency for pandemic prevention.

• Over 10 years of leadership experience, demonstrating a successful track record of building and leading high-performing teams towards ambitious goals.

• Proven experience in people management—having managed other managers and intentionally cultivated a healthy, high-trust team culture.

• A history of translating strategic plans into actionable execution and complex initiatives into scalable outcomes.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across scientific, policy, and implementation audiences, with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• *Nice to have:* familiarity with biosecurity, public health, or pandemic preparedness (or a demonstrated ability to quickly learn in a technical field); experience in nonprofits, startups, or other high-growth, high-ambiguity settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO along with paid holidays.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits through an ICHRA, available for you and your family.

• Fully compensated family leave.

• Annual 401(k) contributions matching 10% of base salary.

• $5,000 each year allocated for professional development and enhancing remote work productivity.

• Access to numerous state-of-the-art LLMs and institutional subscriptions to major news outlets and publications.