Gordian Biotechnology

VP of Discovery Biology

South San Francisco, CA · Vp

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago

A/B TestingClinical TrialsNGSExperimental DesignAnimal StudiesCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Your primary mission as the VP of Discovery Biology is to captain and pace our target discovery engines across multiple therapeutic areas, treating early drug discovery as a team race to beat conventional industry timelines.
Reporting directly to the CSO, you will act as a core contributor to our executive therapeutic portfolio strategy, translating corporate milestones into immediate platform output and capability goals.
In your first month, you will absorb our overarching company strategy, 5-year pipeline plan, and program strategic blueprints.

We then develop drugs and run clinical trials, both internally and in collaboration with multiple partners.
applying our technology to create comprehensive atlases of therapeutic targets across multiple diseases, partnering for financial and intellectual support, and translating these insights into new medicines.
Our building is in the heart of the biotech capital of South San Francisco.

You have a track record of success in high-agency work, consistently creating momentum rather than waiting for direction.
You want to do your best work alongside exceptional teammates and are energized by environments where people push each other to think more clearly, work at a higher standard, and grow into better versions of themselves.
You possess broad exposure directing target discovery efforts across two or more therapeutic indications, moving fluidly from in vivo disease physiology and cell biology through computational approaches.
Crucially, you have governed the successful transition of multiple novel assets from initial discovery programs into formal drug discovery pipelines, thinking critically about every dimension of new targets' potential.
You are an exceptional manager of managers, having directly led three or more distinct teams managers reporting to you.
You are energized by cultivating scientific talent, a commitment evidenced by the clear growth in capacity of your previous teams and a history of excellent upward reviews from those you have mentored.
You bring a strong conceptual and experiential understanding of modern genomic platforms, including single-cell transcriptomics, RNA sequencing, and pooled perturbation screens.

Our mission is audacious, and the path will be full of both challenges and excitement.
Gordian Biotechnology is a therapeutics company whose mission is to cure age-related disease and wake up every morning more capable than the day before.
We are running this discovery engine in successive indication areas, currently focused on cardiometabolic, to map the in vivo effects of every druggable target across every relevant organ.
Our culture is a source of great pride; it represents both who we are and who we wish to be.

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