# Science Lead, Intercept

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** immunology, infectious disease, portfolio management, scientific diligence, grant making, investment diligence, product development, Project Management, crm management, sirna, t-cell vaccines, innate immune stimulators
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Science Lead sourcing, diligencing, and managing grants/investments in broad-spectrum preventatives for respiratory viruses. Requires PhD/MD in immunology/infectious disease, 5+ years post-grad experience in biotech/pharma/VC, portfolio management, and translating science into capital deployment strategy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Expand the pipeline of broad-spectrum preventative (BSP) candidates by engaging networks (researchers, investors, founders, funders) to source new ideas and technologies.
- Diligence pipeline opportunities: evaluate science quality, development plans, team, and fit against target product profile (TPP).
- Develop points of view on technologies; contribute to publishing POVs for the 5-10 most promising approaches (e.g., siRNA, T-cell vaccines, innate immune stimulators), identifying key gating datapoints.
- Build and maintain the CRM to capture all known projects and systematically learn about new ones early.
- Support RFP and investment process: publish RFPs highlighting promising areas, drive projects from intake through execution.
- Portfolio management: monitor investments, determine ways to accelerate top projects 2x faster.
- Map demand-side bottlenecks across regulatory, clinical, recommendations, reimbursement, and adoption.

## Nice-to-Haves / Future Growth
- Lead investments independently as a senior deal lead.
- Shape capital deployment strategy informed by POV on promising approaches.

## Requirements
- PhD or MD in immunology and/or infectious disease.
- 5+ years of post-grad research experience in biotech, pharma, VC, or consulting.
- Demonstrated capacity to explore and evaluate a broad range of scientific topics; experience with scientific curation (e.g., research portfolio oversight, grant making, investment experience).
- Experience with portfolio management, including construction and post-award management.
- Ability to translate scientific diligence into strategic investment recommendations and coherent capital deployment views.
- Product development experience (and/or broad exposure via investing or supporting companies).
- Experience with project management from launch to completion; high openness to getting hands dirty.
- Extremely self-directed, diligent, fast learner, excellent communicator, action-oriented.
- Compelled by mission to reduce burden and risks from respiratory viruses.
- Public health / global health / biosecurity experience.

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