[Hiring] Science Lead @Stripe

Role Description

Intercept is looking for a strategic, execution-oriented life sciences operator to join our team. Intercept is laser-focused on making sure the portfolio of broad-spectrum preventatives needed to radically reduce the burden of respiratory viruses exists. Our goal is to advance 2+ products that meet our target product profile through Phase 2. We make both grants and investments, using the most capital-efficient tool to advance our target product profile.

This role will focus on sourcing and diligencing pipeline opportunities to select the most promising broad-spectrum preventatives that meet our target product profile (TPP), developing views on the most promising approaches, identifying new cutting edge areas of science, mapping key technical and clinical/regulatory bottlenecks, developing plans to de-risk them, and managing the grant/investment process from intake to diligence to award select to post-award monitoring.

We need someone who can:

• Evaluate the quality and value of the science for impact vs probability of success.
• Zoom out to synthesize what that means for our capital deployment plan and long-term goals.

A successful candidate will be action-oriented, comfortable working independently, and a great communicator who can translate complex science for diverse audiences. Intercept is a small team; you'll work with the entire team, under Intercept’s Head of Science, many partners, and wear many hats. You'll own specific outcomes end-to-end and have a chance to contribute to BSP strategy over time.

Qualifications

• Must have a PhD or MD in immunology and/or infectious disease with 5+ years of post-grad research experience (biotech, pharma, VC, or consulting) experience.
• Demonstrated capacity to explore and evaluate a broad range of scientific topics and experience with scientific curation (e.g., oversight of a research portfolio, grant making experience, investment experience, etc.).
• 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.
• Public health / global health / biosecurity experience.

Requirements

• Expand the pipeline of BSP candidates by engaging all networks (researchers, investors, founders, funders, etc.) to source new ideas and technologies.
• Diligence pipeline opportunities by bringing projects through early and deep / technical diligence: evaluating science quality, development plans, team, and fit against our TPP.
• Develop points of view on technologies and contribute to publishing a POV for the 5-10 most promising approaches (i.e., siRNA, T-cell vaccine, innate immune stimulators).
• Build and maintain the CRM to ensure it captures ~all known projects, and have a process to systematically learn about/capture the best new projects early.
• Support our RFP and investment process by publishing our initial RFP, highlighting promising-but-underloved areas we're especially excited to fund.
• Portfolio management including monitoring and how we help / accelerate post investment.
• Map demand-side bottlenecks by helping map key stakeholders and address key evidence needs and bottlenecks across regulatory, clinical, recommendations, reimbursement and adoption/uptake.

Benefits