# Academic Partnerships Director

**Company:** [Beacon Biosignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/beacon-biosignals)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Partnerships
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, sleep science, academic grant funding, nih grants, nsf grants, sbir/sttr, eeg, CRM, Business Development, alliance management, academic contracting, regulatory frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> Builds and closes academic and grant-funded research partnerships for Beacon’s EEG and analytics platform, working with principal investigators, academic medical centers, and research consortia. Requires an MD or neuroscience PhD, grant-environment familiarity, commercial partnership experience, and strong scientific communication skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and manage relationships with principal investigators, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia pursuing grant-funded studies in neurology, psychiatry, and sleep-related disorders.
- Partner with principal investigators during proposal development to position Beacon’s Waveband EEG platform and analytics capabilities for grant-funded studies, supporting scientific and budgetary narratives.
- Apply knowledge of U.S. academic grant funding cycles and mechanisms, including R01, R21, U01, SBIR/STTR, foundation, and philanthropic grants, as well as relevant EU and international regulatory frameworks.
- Grow and steward relationships with academic core facilities and research consortia, identifying institution-wide and multi-site adoption opportunities.
- Own account-level pipeline generation, negotiation, and closing for academic and grant-funded opportunities; record activity and forecasts in the CRM.
- Represent Beacon at academic and scientific conferences and build relationships with grants administrators, research development offices, and technology transfer offices.
- Serve as a scientific thought partner to principal investigators and research teams, translating Beacon’s technology and data assets into value for specific study designs and aims.
- Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams to scope and deliver academic partnerships successfully.
- Provide leadership visibility into pipeline health, win/loss patterns, and emerging opportunities.
- Manage and extend the Academic strategy, including pricing structure, to align with academic partner priorities.

## Requirements
- MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience.
- 3+ years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role, ideally supporting grant-funded research, core facilities, or academic medical centers.
- Firsthand familiarity with academic research and grant funding environments through prior laboratory, postdoctoral, or research administration experience.
- Strong scientific acumen, preferably in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain.
- Ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs for delivery teams.
- Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Track record of self-generated pipeline and revenue-generating partnerships with principal investigators, core facilities, and consortia.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to manage long academic funding cycles with a disciplined pipeline.
- Ability to use CRM tools to track accounts and opportunities.
- Experience contracting with academic institutions, including technology transfer offices and legal teams.
- Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings 1–3 times per quarter.
- Empathy for academic researchers, research administrators, coworkers, and patients.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary is determined by experience, skills, and qualifications.
- Total compensation includes incentive compensation, equity, paid time off, and other benefits.

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