Sr. Associate - Therapeutic Strategy

Who We Are

Vial is a global tech-driven CRO providing next-generation clinical trial management services. The Vial CRO powers its drug discovery arm, Battery Bio, an AI-powered hyper scalable biotech. Battery Bio harnesses Vial's unique 90% lower cost structure to produce more affordable drug development with efficient, streamlined clinical trials.

Our mission is to reimagine the drug discovery process to empower scientists to cure all human disease. We have assembled a talented team of clinical operators, chemists, and innovative thinkers to achieve this vision.

Vial is a San Francisco, California-based company founded by Simon Burns in October 2020. Since our founding, we have become a fast-growing company of 100+ employees with over $100 million in funding from esteemed investors including General Catalyst, Box Group, and Byers Capital.

Vial is rebuilding the infrastructure to advance research. By deploying technology at every step, we are creating a more efficient future for drug discovery.

We are looking for a Sr. Associate, Therapeutic Strategy. In this role, you will assist with multiple projects at Vial, including helping to set and execute firm level strategy. You will report directly to the Strategy Lead, engage closely with the executive team and have significant autonomy in leading analysis related to selecting key areas of investment for Vial.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform market landscaping analyses for the drug discovery pipelines of various indications

• Review research papers and clinical trial readouts

• Make investment recommendations for drug targets, including a strong biological thesis as to how we can win in the market

• Assist with key strategic and operational tasks for our drug discovery business unit

• Manage end-to-end projects with input from key stakeholders across the drug discovery business unit

• Contribute as a thought partner helping set firm direction, brainstorming and collecting thoughts across the org

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in evaluating therapeutic assets (such as in biotech equity research, VC, search and evaluation roles)

• Post-graduate degree in a scientific field strongly preferred (MS, PhD, PharmD)

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities

• Ability to interpret pre-clinical and clinical trial results

• Previous roles in the biotech industry strongly preferred

• Entrepreneurial mindset, experience in startup environment preferred

• Deeply analytical, systems thinker, focused on finding scalable solutions

Why You’ll Love Working At Vial

We are innately curiosity. We found our calling in clinical trials after learning the pain points directly. It is our curiosity that propels us to keep building, finding new challenges, and fulfilling our vision of reimagining clinical trials.

We believe in autonomy. Team members do their best work when given autonomy. In order to make an impact on the scale of the Vial vision, we built our culture to enable each Vial team member to feel ownership of their domain.

We take pride in building mastery. We believe in building master in a craft. Craftsmanship, a pride in one’s craft, is key to prolonged engagement on a difficult challenge. Vial’s culture is one of highly autonomous, deeply focused experts working on an immensely hard problem together.

Our strength is moving fast and staying humble. We believe that if we build a team that is intellectually honest, that we stay nimble and keep an open mind to all solutions - we’ll be adaptive and solve the problems that face us at every turn.

Benefits (Not applicable to Contract or Temp Positions)

Competitive Equity Compensation

Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

401k or RRSP Plan with Company Matching after first 90 days of employment

One time, Remote Office Setup Stipend

Paid Parental Leave

Remote-First, Flexible Work Schedule

Unlimited Vacation