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

What we offer in return

• Impactful Mission: This is a rare chance to do work that genuinely matters. You'll join a talented, fast-moving team, access unique biological datasets at scale, and see your contributions shape real breakthroughs in AI and curative therapeutics..

• Collaborative Culture: You'll be surrounded by world-class engineers, scientists, and researchers who care deeply about their work and about each other. With offices in London and Boston, we've built a flexible, cross-functional environment where personal development and real ownership aren't just talking points.

• High Growth: We truly believe in investing our people we make coaching available to team members during steep growth journeys and we have twice yearly promotion opportunities. People who are really successful here own it and go directly to solve problems at pace and we ensure reward increases with impact.

• Comprehensive Benefits: We've built a benefits package people value. That means competitive salary, equity, and private healthcare with no medical history exclusions so strong that means most employees' family members opt into our plan over their own. We also offer Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend, salary sacrifice pension, bike to work scheme, life insurance, and more.

We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of ethnic or national origin, race, religion, sex, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other basis. If you have a disability or additional need that needs accommodating do let us know.