Market Product Lead

The role

You will own the peptide and protein platform as a commercial product: the market analysis behind it, the target product profiles it is judged against, the decisions about what we build and license first, the go to market strategy and the positioning that partners hear. You will sit between our model and science teams and our business development function, and you will be accountable for the peptide portfolio having a defined buyer, a defensible claim and a credible price.

Target product profiles and programme definition

• Author and defend target product profiles for internal programmes, specifying which properties are differentiated in the market and define evidence needs.

• Translate partner-supplied target product profiles into feasible research plans in collaboration with scientific leadership, including honest assessments of what our platform can and cannot address today.

• Define stage gates and go or no-go criteria for peptide programmes, and make the recommendation when a programme should stop.

Essential experience and skills

• Ten or more years in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with substantial exposure to peptide, protein or biologics therapeutics in discovery, development, product strategy or business development.

• Demonstrable command of what makes peptides difficult as drugs: proteolytic stability, oral and systemic exposure, receptor selectivity and off-target risk, immunogenicity, formulation and manufacturability, and the trade-offs between them.

• A track record of shaping and closing commercial partnerships, licensing agreements or platform deals with pharmaceutical companies, or of owning commercial strategy for a platform sold into pharmaceutical R&D.

• Proven ability to author target product profiles, competitive assessments and commercial cases that senior stakeholders act on.

• Credibility in both directions: able to hold a substantive technical discussion with computational and experimental scientists, and a commercial discussion with a vice-president of platform technologies, without over-claiming in either.

• Comfort operating with incomplete evidence, and the discipline to distinguish clearly between what is validated, what is promising and what is aspiration.

• Excellent written English. A great deal of this role is producing documents that must be right.

• Travel including to represent Basecamp Research at clients and industry meetings

Desirable experience

• Experience in metabolic disease, immunology, anti-infectives or another therapeutic area with an active peptide pipeline.

• Familiarity with macrocyclic peptides, peptidomimetics, non-canonical amino acids, conjugation strategies or oral delivery technologies.

• Direct experience of AI-enabled drug discovery platforms, from either the platform side or the pharmaceutical side of a partnership.

• A postgraduate degree in a life science, chemistry or a related business areas, or equivalent depth acquired in industry

Compensation and benefits

• Competitive base salary, benchmarked against London and Boston market rates for the level; band shared at first conversation.

• Meaningful equity in a company backed by $140M from investors including NVIDIA.

• Discretionary performance bonus.

• Private medical and dental cover, life assurance, and enhanced pension contributions.

• 33 days annual leave inclusive of public holidays, plus a company shutdown between Christmas and New Year.

• Enhanced parental leave, flexible and hybrid working, and support for part-time or compressed arrangements where the role allows.

• Annual budget for conferences, training and professional membership, plus support for continued publication where appropriate.

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