Senior Director of Structural Biology

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Discovery Biotherapeutics and Leads Discovery and Optimization (DBTx-LDO) is a multidisciplinary group of scientists providing critical molecular discovery, structural, functional, and mechanistic datasets to discover differentiated therapeutics. The Structural Biology team within LDO plays a critical role in enabling high resolution structure determination, rational design and AI/ML enablement, across modalities (small and large molecules) and therapeutic areas. The team works collaboratively across adjacent functions including protein sciences, biophysics, protein engineering, synthetic chemistry and computational chemistry for structure-based design of novel therapeutics.

We seek a Senior Director, who will be accountable for structural biology portfolio oversight, strategic vision setting and cross-geography (San Diego, CA and Lawrenceville, NJ) Structural Biology team management. The ideal candidate will be a passionate and experienced drug discovery scientist, and proven portfolio leader, collaborator, and innovator. This is an on-site role.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage and lead state-of-the-art structural biology team of 20+ structural biologists in NJ and CA, both using x-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)
• Manage cross-site structural biology portfolio across discovery organization for traditional small molecule, degrader, biologic and other therapeutic modalities
• Close coordination of resources and projects and alignment with cross-departmental protein sciences, biophysics and computation teams to impact drug discovery programs
• Supervision, mentoring and talent development of multiple PhD scientists and their teams Management of budgets for internal and external data acquisition and working with CROs, key instrumentation including cryo-EM, x-ray generator, automated liquid dispensing and imaging, etc.
• Developing and implementing strategy for future innovation and methodology, including cryo-EM and related methods, computational needs and capabilities, and automation
• Effective decision making, prioritization and communication with key stakeholders within DBTx-LDO and beyond, to drive drug discovery across cross-functional teams
• Foster a culture of transparency, innovation, and collaboration

Qualifications:

• Passionate and innovative scientist with PhD degree in Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Protein Sciences, Chemistry or related field, with at least 10 years experience in pharmaceutical, biotech or other relevant drug discovery experience

• Demonstrated management and team leadership experience, with at least 8 years managerial experience and proven ability to collaborate effectively, act decisively and drive team performance
• A track-record of proven accomplishments in relevant drug discovery including publication record in peer-reviewed journals
• Passion for learning and advancing structural biology capabilities and drug discovery pipelines, including proactive investigation of new techniques and capabilities, advanced software/hardware and innovative experimental approaches
• Strong background and deep knowledge of structural biology methods and technology, and high proficiency with protein structure analysis
• Expertise in protein biochemistry, protein-protein interactions, structure-function relationships and biophysical methods strongly preferred
• Significant experience working effectively with cross-disciplinary integrated drug discovery teams utilizing structure-based drug design and hit-to-lead activities
• Expertise with computational methods or experience in collaborating with computational and discovery groups would be advantageous
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, highly effective in interacting with key internal and external stakeholders, and a commitment to working collaboratively across organizational boundaries to solve complex technical issues

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