This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Identify and establish external business opportunities for out-licensing, co-development, and other structured transactions.

• Oversee the creation and presentation of business cases for prioritized external opportunities, including comprehensive analyses, key assumptions, risks, and both internal and external insights.

• Initiate, lead, and present external opportunities with minimal supervision.

• Direct cross-functional due diligence and alliance management, collaborating with R&D, CMC, Clinical, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, and executive reporting.

• Manage business development operations and transactions, including proposals, term sheet development, negotiations, deal closure, and alliance management.

• Contribute to the formulation and revision of business development and licensing strategies that are consistent with corporate and portfolio objectives.

• Represent Biocytogen at industry, investor, and partnering events.

• Build and maintain relationships with participants in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Ph.D. in pharmacology, immunology, cancer biology, or a related field within biomedical sciences.

• Strong expertise in antibody drug discovery, with a profound understanding of target validation and hit-to-lead optimization.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex biological data (affinity, specificity, and in vivo efficacy) and translate it into a persuasive therapeutic and licensing narrative.

• Familiarity with contemporary antibody modalities, including monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), bispecific antibodies, and ADCs.

• Strong strategic thinking capabilities to align internal scientific platform strengths with the gaps in pharmaceutical partner pipelines.