Director/Sr. Director/Head of Medicinal Chemistry (multiple openings)
Greater Bay Area
Competitive Compensation + excellent bonus/benefits
Responsibilities:
- Lead and contribute to all phases of the drug discovery, including HTS, hit identification, hit to lead, lead optimization, IND enabling studies up to clinical candidacy
- Creating and implementing creative scientific strategies to address synthetic and medicinal chemistry issues through conducting lab-based experiments
- Contribute to drug design, development of new synthetic routes, and perform SAR analyses
- Collaborate & manage CRO chemists
- Maintain clear and accurate records of experimental work and provide progress reports and updates to executive leaders/affiliates
Qualifications:
- PhD required, ideally in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry or Medicinal Chemistry with over 10+ years of experience
- Experience in managing diverse & multiple CRO external partners
- Need hands on experience designing and performing organic synthesis
- Enthusiastic self-starter with strong leadership, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Proven track record in medicinal chemistry as detailed by successful advancement of drug discovery projects is highly sought after