Investment Lead
Lead sourcing, diligence, execution, and portfolio management of biotech investments and grants in broad-spectrum preventatives for respiratory viruses. Requires MD/PhD in immunology/infectious disease plus 5+ years biotech investing or equivalent, strong scientific and strategic skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Expand the pipeline of candidates by proactively engaging networks (researchers, investors, founders, funders, etc.) to source new ideas and technologies. Manage referral channels (open RFP, referrals, etc.) and screen investment and grant opportunities.
- Own projects through diligence and transaction execution. Advance companies through early and deep/technical diligence: evaluating science quality, development plans, team, and fit against our TPP. Drive the investment or grantmaking process, coordinating with internal and external legal and diligence consultants. Bring projects through internal approval processes and act as the internal owner/champion.
- Develop points of view on technologies. Contribute to publishing a POV for the 5-10 most promising approaches (i.e., siRNA, T-cell vaccine, innate immune stimulators) and identify the key 'gating datapoints' that would make us kill or double down on that approach and when we'll get that datapoint (or if there is a gap).
- Build and maintain the CRM. Help ensure our CRM captures ~all known projects, and we have a process to systematically learn about/capture the best new projects early.
- Portfolio management. Supporting portfolio projects and leading on efforts to accelerate and support projects post investment. Determine what would let the top projects in the field move 2x faster beyond funding and make sure those things happen.
- Map demand-side bottlenecks. Help map key stakeholders and address key evidence needs and bottlenecks across regulatory, clinical, recommendations, reimbursement and adoption/uptake.
Future opportunities for growth
- Lead investments independently. Grow into a more senior team lead, owning deals from start to finish, managing investment teams, and generating / pursuing new investment theses.
- Shape capital deployment. Contribute to our capital deployment plan informed by a clear POV of the most promising approaches.
Minimum requirements
- MD/PhD in immunology or infectious disease with 2+ years of investing, BD/partnering, or grantmaking experience or minimum 5 years of biotech investor experience in immunology or infectious disease at VC fund
- Experience with portfolio management, including portfolio construction and post-award management
- Ability to translate scientific diligence into strategic investment recommendations and a coherent capital deployment view
- Product development experience (and/or broad exposure via investing in or supporting companies)
- Experience with project management from launch to completion / project quarterback with a high openness to getting hands dirty
- Extremely self-directed, diligent, very fast learner, excellent communicator, very action oriented (vs talking about things)
- Compelled by our mission to greatly reduce the burden of and risks from respiratory viruses
Preferred qualifications
- Public health / global health / biosecurity experience
- MBA or MPH degrees
- Experience with issuing non-dilutive funding / grant programs
Skills
Investing, Portfolio Management, Scientific Diligence, Biotech, Immunology, Infectious Disease, Grantmaking, Business Development, Project Management, CRM, Sirna, T-Cell Vaccine, Innate Immune Stimulators
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