About this role
The Associate Director, Strategic Program Management (SPM) will focus on management of the ECO Synthesis® technology platform, including Codexis R&D programs, key corporate initiatives, and customer programs supporting ECO Synthesis®. This role serves as the operational partner to program leads and cross-functional teams, creating and maintaining the program infrastructure needed to deliver objectives, milestones, budgets, risks, and outcomes aligned with Codexis’ strategic goals. The Associate Director, SPM will partner with program leads, functional leadership, and subject matter experts to define program scope, clarify roles and accountabilities, manage timelines and decision points, prepare materials for program reviews and governance forums, and ensure timely escalation of risks, trade-offs, resource constraints, and decisions. This role is expected to bring structure, visibility, and disciplined execution to cross-functional programs while enabling faster decision-making, clear communication, and continuous improvement across the SPM operating model. The Associate Director, Strategic Program Management will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and driving integrated program plans in alignment with Codexis policies, procedures, and governance expectations. For Codexis R&D programs and key corporate initiatives, this role partners with program leads and functional teams to establish program charters, objectives, milestones, decision points, risks, issues, and cross-functional accountabilities. For customer programs, this role supports coordinated execution across Commercial, Research, Development, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Finance stakeholders to enable on-time and in-full delivery against customer commitments. Lead SPM execution for complex, cross-functional Codexis R&D programs, key corporate initiatives, and ECO Synthesis® customer programs from scope definition and program chartering through delivery against schedule and agreed objectives. Create and maintain standardized program infrastructure, including Smartsheet timelines, milestones, dashboards, risks and issues logs, decision logs, action trackers, and meeting documentation to provide accurate visibility into program status, priorities, and execution risks. Build strong working relationships with internal departments to coordinate priorities, resolve execution barriers, and support proactive resource and schedule planning. Support customer programs from planning through completion by coordinating internal and client-facing meetings, managing action items, tracking deliverables, and escalating scope changes, resource allocation needs, scheduling conflicts, and risks to customer commitments. Prepare clear, decision-oriented program documentation for governance forums, including status summaries, recommendations and key risks/trade-offs to support timely leadership alignment and program decisions. Facilitate escalation through the appropriate governance pathway when decisions impact timelines, deliverables, budgets, corporate goals, functional resources, or cross-functional alignment. Contribute to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of SPM processes, templates, metrics, and ways of working that improve execution discipline and decision quality across Codexis programs. Support retrospective reviews and lessons learned to identify opportunities to improve speed, communication, role clarity, risk management, and program outcomes.