Director/Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry

Job description

JOB SUMMARY: We seek an accomplished and creative medicinal chemistry leader with a proven track record of success in advancing drug discovery programs, setting scientific strategy, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver impact. Candidates should be motivated to work in an intensely collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-based setting. The role will entail leading drug discovery projects, coordinating a medicinal chemistry team with internal and external experimental capabilities, as well as proactively interfacing with diverse teams working on automated experimentation, ML-driven molecular generation, property predictions, and bioassay data generation. This position will be on-site at our San Diego Headquarters. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead a group of project scientists and drive molecular discovery efforts to deliver development and clinical candidates Devise strategies to execute hit ID, identify lead molecules and optimize them for potency, selectivity, and ADME properties using multivariant SAR analysis and hypothesis driven design principles. Act as a liaison between Iambic, CROs, and other external collaborators, including partnered research projects Influence the prosp...