Senior Director/Director of Translational Collaborations

Position: Senior Director/Director of Translational Collaborations

The position will be hired commensurate with experience.

Background

At Immunai, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the way we treat immune diseases. We believe that by harnessing the power of immunomics and machine learning, we can unlock the key to developing the next generation of immunomodulatory drugs.

Our team, comprised of immunologists, engineers, drug developers, computer scientists, and entrepreneurs, uses cutting-edge technology like single-cell multiomics and functional genomics to map the human immune system like never before. We’re delving deep into its inner workings and uncovering novel insights into immune disease pathology.

With the use of neural networks and transfer learning, we’re sifting through a massive immune database and deciphering the mechanisms of action and resistance of existing drugs. This information is helping us identify and validate new immune targets and target combinations and supports the development of improved therapeutics.

Our ultimate goal is to bring breakthrough medicines to patients as quickly and successfully as possible. With our engineering-first approach, we’re confident we can make it happen. Together, we’re shaping the future of immune disease treatment.

Location - NYC, NY

For details - danielle.scesa@immunai.com

Reports to -VP, Single Cell Immunology

Role

The (Senior) Director of Translational Collaborations will be responsible for creatively leveraging Immunai’s powerful suite of platform technologies to initiate and advance scientific collaborations with industry and academic partners. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in utilizing deep phenotypic and functional immune analyses to support translational research for pharmaceutical discovery, early development, and/or clinical development. This highly collaborative role is expected to interface closely with the platform R&D team to help guide the development of Immunai platform capabilities and resources and to work closely with the business development team to creatively leverage these diverse resources to generate differentiated translational insights to support external collaborations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with platform R&D and business leadership to define and articulate a vision for how Immunai’s integrated lab and computational technologies can add value in tackling key challenges in pharmaceutical discovery and development.
• Provide scientific leadership to the business development team in identifying potential collaboration partners and offer subject matter expertise in formulating and presenting collaborative project proposals.
• Design experiments and analyses utilizing Immunai’s unique platform capabilities to bring differentiated value to pharma partners and lead a cross-functional team of immunologists, computational biologists, and project managers to execute these designs successfully.
• Identify relevant prospective / retrospective patient cohorts and clinical trial opportunities, and initiate and oversee collaborations with academic medical centers to grow Immunai’s strategic data assets to support translational discovery.

Qualifications

• PhD/MD in the biological sciences, with specific experience in immunology and computational biology strongly preferred.
• 5+ years in a translational research role in pharma/biotech supporting either discovery, early development or clinical development on compound specific project teams, with demonstrated evidence of leveraging patient translational analysis to augment the course of therapy development.
• Direct technical experience leveraging high-dimensional immune profiling data and computational approaches, preferably scRNAseq/CITE-seq, for scientific and translational discovery.
• Publication record demonstrating ability to leverage human patient translational data to drive scientific discovery and therapeutic clinical development.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to achieve common goals.
• Must be able to effectively initiate, manage, and lead collaborations with academic and industry partners.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Desired Personal traits

• You want to make an impact on humankind
• You prioritize “We” over “I”
• You enjoy getting things done - with super high quality
• You collaborate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• You have superior skills and experience, and constantly strive to be world-class in what you do
• You constantly challenge your own assumptions, pushing for continuous improvement
• You have a growth mindset
• You make decisions that favor the company, not yourself or your team
• You are candid, authentic, and transparent

Compensation: This position offers a base salary typically between $225,000 and $300,000. There is an opportunity to consider higher compensation above this range based on business need, candidate experience, and or skills.