structuretx
Senior Director, Business Development
South San Francisco, California · Director
Sponsorship not specified$254k-$321kDetected 20 days ago
Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentValuationIntellectual PropertyResearchAnimal StudiesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- This individual will play a key role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing business development opportunities that align with Structure's therapeutic strategy and pipeline priorities.
- Experience in metabolic disease is also highly valued.
- Provide sell-side expertise to help position assets, evaluate partnering strategies, and structure compelling external narratives for potential collaborators or counterparties.
Responsibilities
- Support the identification, assessment, and execution of external innovation, in-licensing, partnering, and transaction opportunities.
- Lead or contribute to business development workstreams, including opportunity sourcing, strategic assessment, competitive landscape analysis, valuation, diligence, and transaction support.
- Independently drive business development projects from initial opportunity screening through internal recommendation, coordinating cross-functional input and maintaining momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams to conduct scientific, clinical, commercial, financial, legal, and intellectual property diligence.
- Support negotiations, term sheet development, transaction structuring, and execution of licensing, collaboration, acquisition, or other strategic partnership agreements.
- Serve as a trusted business development partner to internal stakeholders, bringing strategic perspective, transaction execution discipline, scientific fluency, and strong ownership.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical partners, venture investors, investment banks, scientific founders, key opinion leaders, and other external stakeholders to generate proprietary or differentiated deal flow.
- Structure Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director, Business Development to support the company's strategic growth through high-impact external innovation, in-licensing, partnering, and transaction execution.
- Strong, active external network that can be leveraged for sourcing opportunities, market intelligence, expert input, and partner engagement.
- Scientific, clinical development, or R&D strategy experience that supports independent assessment of therapeutic opportunities and development risk.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical business development, corporate development, investment banking, venture capital, strategy consulting, or a related field.
- Significant sell-side business development or transaction advisory experience, ideally involving biotechnology or pharmaceutical assets.
- Strong understanding of drug development, including translational research, preclinical data, clinical development strategy, trial design, regulatory considerations, competitive positioning, and clinical differentiation.
- Ability to critically evaluate scientific rationale, mechanism of action, clinical data, development plans, and therapeutic area fit in collaboration with internal subject matter experts.
- Proven ability to synthesize complex scientific, clinical, financial, and strategic information into actionable recommendations.
- Strong executive presence, communication skills, and ability to influence across functions and levels of seniority.
- Travel Required
- Demonstrated experience supporting or leading out-licensing, in-licensing, strategic partnership, collaboration, acquisition, or asset transaction processes.
- Established network across the biopharma ecosystem, including biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies, investors, bankers, advisors, academic institutions, scientific founders, and key opinion leaders.
- Proven ability to proactively source opportunities, develop relationships, generate deal flow, and engage external counterparties at senior levels.
- Excellent analytical, financial, presentation, and project management skills.
Nice to have
- Dedicated sell-side experience involving lung disease, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary arterial hypertension, or broader fibrosis indications, is a strong plus.
- Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, business, or a related field preferred
- MBA, PhD, MD, PharmD, or equivalent experience strongly valued.
- Experience in lung disease, including IPF, PAH, pulmonary fibrosis, or broader fibrosis-related indications, is highly preferred.
- Experience in metabolic disease, cardiometabolic disease, obesity, diabetes, or related therapeutic areas is a plus.
Compensation
- For this role, the anticipated base pay range is $254,000-$321,000.
Benefits
- The successful candidate will be eligible for an annual performance incentive bonus, new hire equity, and ongoing performance-based equity.
- Structure Therapeutics also offers various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, unlimited PTO, and a number of paid holidays including winter shutdown.
Company info
- Structure Therapeutics develops life‐changing medicines for patients using advanced structure‐based and computational drug discovery technology. The company's platform combines the latest advancements in visualization of molecular interactions, computational chemistry, and data integration to design orally available, superior small molecule medicines that overcome current limitations of biologic and peptide drugs. We are advancing a clinical‐stage pipeline of differentiated treatments focused on chronic diseases with high unmet need, including cardiovascular, metabolic, and pulmonary conditions.
- Structure Therapeutics is led by an experienced group of international drug innovators and financed by top-tier global life sciences investors. The company completed an initial public offering (IPO) in February 2023. With offices in California and Shanghai, Structure Therapeutics has the benefit of being at the center of life science innovation in both the US and China and capitalizing on the strengths of each geographic location.
- Position Summary:
- Structure Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director, Business Development to support the company's strategic growth through high-impact external innovation, in-licensing, partnering, and transaction execution. This individual will play a key role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing business development opportunities that align with Structure's therapeutic strategy and pipeline priorities.
- Structure Therapeutics develops life‐changing medicines for patients using advanced structure‐based and computational drug discovery technology.
- The company's platform combines the latest advancements in visualization of molecular interactions, computational chemistry, and data integration to design orally available, superior small molecule medicines that overcome current limitations of biologic and peptide drugs.
- We are advancing a clinical‐stage pipeline of differentiated treatments focused on chronic diseases with high unmet need, including cardiovascular, metabolic, and pulmonary conditions.
- Structure Therapeutics is led by an experienced group of international drug innovators and financed by top-tier global life sciences investors.
- The company completed an initial public offering (IPO) in February 2023.
- With offices in California and Shanghai, Structure Therapeutics has the benefit of being at the center of life science innovation in both the US and China and capitalizing on the strengths of each geographic location.
- The ideal candidate will bring deep business development transaction experience, particularly from the sell side, with a strong understanding of pharmaceutical and biotechnology deal processes, asset positioning, diligence, valuation, and partner engagement.
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