Vice President, Research & Product Development
Description
Our client is an exciting cutting-edge life sciences organization that is focused on bringing more effective therapeutics to patients via proprietary nanoparticle drug delivery technology. In this newly created position of VP, Research & Product Development, you will play a critical role in developing and implementing comprehensive strategic planning and decision-making across their diverse portfolio while also managing technical, scientific, and operational resources.
The ideal candidate will bring a broad Research & Product Development background, strong organizational skills, and the ability to lead a small team of scientists and collaborate across academic and industry partnerships. As you’ll be joining this company before its breakout stage, you will have the opportunity for a significant equity position. As such, they require people who are self-directed and thrive when being held accountable and visible to corporate partners, management, and investors.
Location
Our client is based in the Midwest. This position is remote-based, with the ability to travel to headquarters, meetings, and conferences a total of approximately 20%.
Features
- All-encompassing – You will have the opportunity to directly affect this organization's growth, strategy, and ultimate path forward. You will collaborate with all company leadership while also maintaining hands-on responsibilities.
- Growth Opportunity – Join this organization before it grows larger. This newly created position reports directly to a personable and highly experienced CEO.
- Cutting Edge – Create and deploy therapies that will transform patient lives across multiple clinical arenas including Cystic Fibrosis, COPD, Diabetes, Metabolic Disease, Genetic Therapy, Vaccines, Cancer, and many more. Transform targeted and precision medicine from theory to practice by delivering small molecules, peptides, and nucleic acid vaccines and therapies.
- Strong Equity Stake – Receive a generous amount of equity at the ground floor. Your hard work and dedication will be rewarded.
- Pipeline Leadership – While you will handle day-to-day responsibilities, this position also grants you the opportunity to lead and navigate the larger Research & Product Development roadmap.
- People & Culture – Our client offers a positive, collaborative and creative culture that thrives on new ideas and better ways to get things done.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all Research & Product Development across an innovative slate of early development drug delivery programs. Responsible for decision-making, timeline management, scientific experiments/rigor, pipeline prioritization, cross-functional collaboration, external relationships, budgets, etc.
- Hands-on/tactical responsibilities across scientific experiments and technical operations to include, but not limited to, PK assays, bioavailability, toxicology, analytical development/methods, etc.
- Contribution across documentation, communication, etc. related to regulatory activities.
- Management of both short-term and long-term planning/decision-making.
- Establish and develop relationships externally across Pharma/Biotech, CROs, Academic centers, etc.
- Manage and collaborate with the internal research team to design, execute, coordinate, and interpret experiments.
Qualifications / Requirements
- PhD degree with a preferred focus in biology/biological sciences/pharmacology.
- 5-10+ years of relevant experience gained working within both the Academic and Biotech/Pharma industries.
- Pharmaceutical product development, including analytical, in vitro, and in vivo study design, implementation, and interpretation.
- Results focused with project planning and tracking, portfolio management, and strong communication skills.
- Experience with nanoparticle delivery systems, peptide-based pharmaceuticals, nucleic acid vaccines and/or therapies, cell transfection, oral delivery technology are a plus.
- Experience related to cystic fibrosis/pulmonary, rare disease therapies, diabetes, vaccines, targeted therapies, animal health are a plus.
- Experience beyond the bench is required. This will include program prioritization/decision-making, cross-functional collaboration and communication, general organizational skills, and a big-picture/strategic mindset.
- Detailed Visionary – ability to paint a picture and support with details with high level academic and industry partners. Ability to identify gaps and complete the data sets required to secure industry investment and licenses.
- Ability to influence and effect change across the organization to include with executive leadership.
- Must be flexible to serve in a leadership role that also demands a “hands-on/attention to detail” work ethic.
- Our client is a smaller, growing company. As such, candidates must be comfortable being highly visible and accountable across the organization.
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