Associate Program Manager

Associate Program Manager Location: Bangalore, India About nference nference is an AI-first healthcare technology company dedicated to accelerating biomedical discovery and transforming healthcare through artificial intelligence and large-scale computing. Our platforms help pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and research organizations unlock insights from complex clinical, molecular, and imaging data to drive better decisions and improve patient outcomes. Founded with the vision of solving some of healthcare's most challenging problems, nference combines expertise in software engineering, machine learning, data science, and life sciences to build products that make a meaningful impact on global healthcare. Our People At nference, you'll work alongside software engineers, AI researchers, physicians, scientists, and product leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful, real-world problems. We foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning. Our teams are encouraged to challenge assumptions, contribute ideas, and take ownership of their work from problem definition and experimentation through production. The Opportunity We're looking for an Associate Program Manager with 2–3 years of experience in program management, product operations, consulting, growth operations, startup operations, or similar roles involving cross-functional execution. This role is suited for someone who can take loosely defined objectives and turn them into structured execution plans, coordinate across multiple teams, track progress and risks, and ensure workstreams move forward with clear ownership and accountability. As an Associate Program Manager, you will work closely with Engineering, Product, Clinical, QA, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to execute defined programs and workstreams within larger product or clinical initiatives. The ideal candidate is analytical, highly organized, comfortable working with data and spreadsheets, and able to operate effectively in ambiguous environments while knowing when to escalate issues. You will work under the guidance of Senior or Lead Program Managers while progressively taking ownership of defined workstreams. What You'll Do Own the execution of defined programs or workstreams within larger product, clinical, or operational initiatives, delivering against agreed scope, timelines, and success metrics. Translate high-level objectives from Senior or Lead Program Managers into structured execution plans with milestones, task breakdowns, dependencies, and tracking mechanisms. Coordinate day-to-day execution across Clinical, Engineering, Product, QA, Operations, and distributed stakeholder teams . Track project timelines, milestones, KPIs, and deliverables and maintain clear visibility into execution progress. Maintain risk, issue, and dependency logs and proactively identify potential blockers, mitigation actions,…