The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Director of Pharmacovigilance (PV) Operations, the Associate Director, PV Operations will provide vendor oversight and review of ICSR processing for assigned investigational products. They will ensure compliance and adherence to Safety processes and SOPs as well as manage and analyze data from the Global Safety Database. This SME will be responsible for PV operations’ role in Phase 1, 2, & 3 clinical studies, inclusive of inspection readiness, reconciliation, SMP maintenance, and site and regulatory authority reporting oversight. They will work in close collaboration with PV physicians and PV scientists on operational safety and case quality issues.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the relationship with safety vendor(s) to ensure effectiveness, quality and compliance of all outsourced activities.
• Provide Sponsor oversight of operational safety responsibilities, including the timely and accurate execution of the processes defined within the applicable Safety Management plans.
• Participate in daily management, operational oversight and execution of operational safety tasks for assigned Nuvalent clinical programs.
• Review incoming adverse event reports and communications from vendors to determine action required and ensure prompt review, follow-up, and timely submission of expedited safety reports.
• Oversee case workflow (case receipt through submission) between safety vendor and Nuvalent Pharmacovigilance team.
• Ensure safety case queries are resolved as per defined processes (interfacing with safety physicians, clinical operations team, other cross-functional teams within Nuvalent, and clinical vendors, as required) and facilitate case closure within required timelines.
• Serve as PV operations SME on safety reporting processes according to study protocol.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of SOPs, forms, plans, systems, and guidance documents to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements or guidelines, GVP and industry best practices.
• Serve as resource and contact for other functions within the company for pharmacovigilance
• operational activities.
• Serve as Pharmacovigilance representative for the operational aspects of the SAE reconciliation
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• Responsible for the development of safety management plans for assigned programs, and associated documents to ensure that study-specific and Regulatory Authority reporting requirements are met and that workflow responsibilities between CROs, and Nuvalent are clearly delineated and adhered to

Competencies Include:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated communications expertise with the ability to articulate, influence, and work successfully with internal/external stakeholders and within a matrixed environment.
• Ability to plan and handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and still meet high quality and timeliness standards under pressure.
• Demonstrated contribution to strategy and innovation. Contributes to or leads actionable strategies.
• Demonstrated project management and prioritization capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, RN, Pharmacy, Pharm D., or other relevant health-care related fields.
• 8-10 years of progressive drug safety experience in a biotech/pharma company.
• Clinical Development experience.
• Strong knowledge of current and emerging regulatory requirements including EMA GVP Modules, FDA IND and NDA reporting requirements, ICH, CIOMS
• Ability to interpret and follow regulatory guidelines.
• Proven knowledge of Good Documentation Practices and cGXPs.
• Basic knowledge of MedDRA coding.
• Experience in ICSR case-processing and reporting.
• Experience working in and with safety databases.
• Direct experience managing relationships with service providers or external business partners

Additional Information:

Nuvalent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, aiming to provide employees with competitive total rewards packages.

The targeted salary range reflects what Nuvalent reasonably and in good faith expects to offer for this position at the time of posting, but the final salary determination may be within or outside this range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and market factors.  The range will be reviewed regularly and is subject to change.

Nuvalent also offers a comprehensive benefit package to support our employees at each stage of their career, financial, health, and well-being journey, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan, generous paid time off (including a summer and winter company shutdown), and much more.

About Every Cure:   

Every Cure is an AI-driven nonprofit, biotech organization on a mission to save and improve lives by repurposing existing medicines for diseases with significant unmet need. We are working to create a world where every drug is used to treat every disease it possibly can, so that no patient suffers when an existing treatment could help them. We are filling a gap left by the current biomedical system, which doesn’t systematically pursue new uses for old drugs. Through artificial intelligence technologies, collaboration with healthcare professionals, and patient advocacy, Every Cure is dedicated to unlocking the full potential of existing medicines to treat every disease and every patient we possibly can. Inspired by Every Cure’s co-founders' work repurposing drugs for Castleman disease and other rare diseases, Every Cure is advancing repurposed treatments for neglected diseases and has been featured in The New Yorker,  New York Times, USA Today, Good Morning America and other news media. Led by a talented leadership team and an outstanding Board of Directors, Every Cure is supported through funding from leading philanthropic organizations like Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, TED’s Audacious Project, and ARPA-H. 

 Our approach:  

• AI-Powered Identification: We use advanced artificial intelligence to analyze the world’s biomedical knowledge and identify FDA-approved drugs that can be repurposed for untreated conditions. This cutting-edge technology enables us to explore new therapeutic possibilities efficiently.  
• Open-Source Commitment: We are dedicated to making our predictive pipeline open-source, fostering collaboration and transparency within the scientific community and unlocking the potential for discovering new treatments.  
• High-Impact Focus: We prioritize drug repurposing opportunities that will relieve the most suffering and have the greatest impact possible.  
• Rigorous Validation: Promising opportunities are thoroughly validated through laboratory and clinical studies to confirm their efficacy and safety before advancing to broader application.  
• Strategic Marketing and Access: We disseminate information about effective repurposed treatments through multiple channels and are committed to ensuring that new cures are accessible to all patients.

Applicants must reside in the state specified at the top of this job posting. Residency in that state is a requirement for consideration and must be maintained for the duration of employment.

The Head of Clinical Development leads Every Cure’s clinical research and development function, serving as both strategic architect and working clinical lead on priority programs. They manage a diverse portfolio of drug repurposing initiatives including Every Cure-sponsored interventional trials (with full sponsor IND accountability and REMS complexity where applicable), collaborative investigator-sponsored trials, and Every Cure-led patient registries, natural history studies, and other real-world studies. They collaborate directly with computational and data science teams to translate AI-driven repurposing hypotheses into clinically testable programs and represent the organization to external partners and stakeholders. This role owns sponsor compliance under ICH E6(R3) including maintenance of the clinical QMS and SOP infrastructure regardless of CRO engagement  and oversees regulatory strategy and dissemination. The HCD supports Every Cure’s CSO and engages directly with external stakeholders including CROs, clinical trial technology vendors, academic investigators, patient advocacy organizations, the IRB of record, and FDA. The HCD helps build and lead a lean internal clinical development team, modeling the working-leader norm expected in a small, mission-driven organization.

How you will make an impact: 

Strategic Leadership of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs

• Set the direction for Every Cure’s clinical research and development, ensuring alignment with the organization’s mission to repurpose FDA-approved drugs for high-impact unmet needs, while personally leading or co-leading priority programs.
• Lead the execution of organizational goals through operational planning and cross-functional integration, personally owning project timelines, quality standards, and accountability metrics for priority programs rather than delegating all execution.
• Provide expert counsel to the CSO, President and Scientific Advisory Council on medical strategy, program development, and organizational growth.

Research and Clinical Development Oversight

• Design, author, and review key study documents (protocols, statistical analysis plans, informed consent documents, clinical study reports, investigator brochures) for Every Cure-sponsored clinical trials, patient registries, natural history studies, and real-world evidence assessments. Own study design decisions end-to-end, from scientific rationale through data integrity and analysis.
• Serve as sponsor medical lead and/or medical monitor on Every Cure-sponsored IND-holding studies (delegating per-study where appropriate), ensuring all research activities are ethically sound, methodologically rigorous, and regulatory compliant under FDA 21 CFR Part 312, ICH E6(R3), and ICH E9 principles.
• Translate complex medical findings into strategic decisions regarding program continuation, optimization, or sunsetting, based on efficacy, feasibility, and patient impact.
• Responsible for compliance and oversight of the Human Subjects Research program at Every Cure, including IRB (Advarra) submissions and amendments, sponsor safety reporting (IND safety reports, DSURs), SAE adjudication, signal detection, and REMS program participation where applicable (e.g., lenalidomide).

Portfolio Strategy and Program Management

• Partner on strategic prioritization and dynamic management of Every Cure’s diverse portfolio of drug repurposing opportunities, applying a risk-adjusted, impact-oriented lens to maximize outcomes.
• Direct the progression of programs through clinical and dissemination stages, using insights from AI models and external scientific inputs. Personally lead CRO and clinical technology vendor selection, contracting input, and ongoing governance (joint steering committees, KPIs, oversight plans) for highest-priority programs.
• Develop and manage resource allocation frameworks across disease areas and therapeutic modalities, ensuring optimal investment of time, talent, and funding toward the most promising interventions.

Leadership and Team Development

• Build, mentor, and lead a lean, high-performing team of clinical research and medical professionals united around a shared vision of maximizing patient impact through drug repurposing, modeling a working-leader norm in which senior leaders contribute directly alongside their teams.
• Define roles, responsibilities, and performance standards for the clinical team while fostering a culture of excellence, integrity, psychological safety, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Promote continuous learning and growth through coaching, training programs, and development opportunities that build both individual capability and team effectiveness.

Stakeholder Engagement, Compliance, and Dissemination

• Act as medical spokesperson and lead regulatory interface for Every Cure in public, scientific, and regulatory forums (including FDA pre-IND and Type B/C meetings), promoting the organization’s mission and sharing results from preclinical and clinical programs.
• Cultivate and manage partnerships with CROs, patient advocacy groups, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies to ensure successful execution and wide-scale impact of therapeutic programs.
• Guide the regulatory approval and post-study dissemination strategies to ensure timely and effective translation of research into therapies accessible to patients, including peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, and healthcare provider outreach.
• Partner with the Impact lead to provide input and perspective on dissemination and to engage with key stakeholders to ensure medicines reach patients.

What you bring to the team:

Education 

• MD or MD/PhD preferred; PhD DO, or PharmD acceptable

Work Experience (Two-Tier: Head of / VP)

• Minimum for Head of Clinical Development: 8+ years of clinical development experience post-MD (or equivalent), including service as clinical lead on at least one sponsor-held Phase 2 trial from protocol through database lock.
• Demonstrated leadership experience recruiting, mentoring, and managing cross-functional clinical teams, with explicit willingness and proven ability to work hands-on alongside direct reports in a small-organization setting.
• Expertise in drug development, clinical trial design (including interventional trials in rare or ultra-rare populations), and clinical decision-making.
• Sponsor-side experience running Phase 2 trials (distinct from CRO or academic investigator experience).
• Experience working across more than one therapeutic research area.
• Experience with small-sample trial designs and natural history or registry data.
• Proven leadership in driving strategic initiatives and cross-functional collaboration to advance scientific and organizational goals.

Preferred for Vice President designation:

• 12+ years of clinical development experience, including prior functional leadership at a sponsor (Executive Director, Head of, or VP level); multiple sponsor-held INDs led through Phase 2 or beyond; direct experience with REMS programs, risk-based monitoring, or similarly complex regulatory programs; and prior responsibility for building or scaling a clinical QMS under ICH E6(R3) or predecessor standards.

Skills 

• Proficiency in clinical research, real-world evidence assessments, evidence generation, patient registry design, clinical trial execution, and sponsor-side pharmacovigilance.
• Working knowledge of FDA IND regulations (21 CFR Part 312), ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, ICH E9 statistical principles, 21 CFR Part 11 for electronic records, and REMS program requirements; familiarity with EU CTR a plus.
• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to foster and sustain a collaborative, cross-functional culture grounded in shared organizational mission and values.
• Able to partner effectively with computational and data science teams and critically evaluate AI/ML-driven repurposing hypotheses for clinical translatability.
• Strategic thinker with a focus on urgency, efficiency, and impact.
• Passionate about Every Cure’s mission and values.
• Highly adaptable, thriving in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
• Explicit willingness to be hands-on: comfort authoring and reviewing key clinical documents (protocols, SOPs, CSRs), directly managing vendor/CRO relationships, and working alongside junior staff rather than exclusively through delegation. Candidates seeking a purely oversight or figurehead role are not a fit for this position.

Compensations & Benefits: 

• Your paycheck: Competitive salary based on experience, ranging from $250,000 - $275,000 annually. 
• Health and wellness: Comprehensive plans with medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for eligible healthcare expenses. 
• Future nest egg: A 403(b)-retirement plan with an employer match of 3.5% helps you save for your future. 
• Relax and recharge: Generous time off, including paid time off and paid holidays. 
• We have you covered: Comprehensive paid leave for family and medical needs, ensuring you have the support you need during important times. 

This role is based in Cambridge, MA, with an expectation of minimum 3 days per week in office.  

Every Cure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Director of Pharmacovigilance (PV) Operations, the Associate Director of PV Operations will provide vendor oversight and review of ICSR processing. They will ensure compliance and adherence to Safety processes and SOPs as well as manage and analyze data from the Global Safety Database. This SME will be the primary point of contact for quality oversight of the case processing vendor. They will work in close collaboration with PV physicians, PV scientists, and PV Excellence on operational safety and case quality issues The role will expand and evolve in line with Nuvalent’s expansion as we approach potential market authorization.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the relationship with safety vendor(s) to ensure effectiveness, quality and compliance of all outsourced activities.
• Provide Sponsor oversight of operational safety responsibilities, including the timely and accurate execution of the processes defined within the applicable Safety Management plans.
• Monitor performance (metrics, other reports) of the safety vendor and the quality output of the ICSRs; provide appropriate feedback and training.
• Monitor key performance indicators of case processing and present findings to Head of PV and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Participate in daily management, operational oversight and execution of operational safety tasks for assigned Nuvalent clinical programs.
• As needed. review incoming adverse event reports and communications from vendors to determine action required and ensure prompt review, follow-up, and timely submission of expedited safety reports.
• Oversee case workflow (case receipt through submission) between safety vendor and Nuvalent Pharmacovigilance team.
• Ensure safety case queries are resolved as per defined processes (interfacing with safety physicians, clinical operations team, other cross-functional teams within Nuvalent, and clinical vendors, as required) and facilitate case closure within required timelines.
• Serve as PV operations SME on safety reporting processes according to study protocol.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of SOPs, forms, plans, systems, and guidance documents to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements or guidelines, GVP and industry best practices.
• Serve as resource and contact for other functions within the company for pharmacovigilance
• operational activities.
• Serve as Pharmacovigilance representative for the operational aspects of the SAE reconciliation.

Competencies Include:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated communications expertise with the ability to articulate, influence, and work successfully with internal/external stakeholders and within a matrixed environment.
• Ability to plan and handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and still meet high quality and timeliness standards under pressure.
• Demonstrated contribution to strategy and innovation. Contributes to or leads actionable strategies.
• Demonstrated project management and prioritization capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, RN, Pharmacy, Pharm D., or other relevant health-care related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in a biotech/pharma company.
• Direct experience managing relationships with service providers or external business partners
• Clinical Development experience.
• Strong knowledge of current and emerging regulatory requirements including EMA GVP Modules, FDA IND and NDA reporting requirements, ICH, CIOMS
• Ability to interpret and follow regulatory guidelines.
• Proven knowledge of Good Documentation Practices and cGXPs.
• Basic knowledge of MedDRA coding.
• Experience in ICSR case-processing and reporting.
• Experience working in and with safety databases.

Additional Information:

Nuvalent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, aiming to provide employees with competitive total rewards packages.

The targeted salary range reflects what Nuvalent reasonably and in good faith expects to offer for this position at the time of posting, but the final salary determination may be within or outside this range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and market factors.  The range will be reviewed regularly and is subject to change.

Nuvalent also offers a comprehensive benefit package to support our employees at each stage of their career, financial, health, and well-being journey, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan, generous paid time off (including a summer and winter company shutdown), and much more.

The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Medical Director, Pharmacovigilance, the Associate Medical Director, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance is responsible for the medical assessment of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) and other drug safety information. The individual will be responsible for assessing and interpreting safety data from multiple sources, including clinical trials, spontaneous and solicited reports, aggregate, and literature reports. This individual is expected to provide interpretation and summaries of drug safety information and provide input in the generation of safety reports (e.g., DSURs, PSUR and clinical safety assessments). The individual will be an integral part of a group of safety professionals within Nuvalent and will closely collaborate with safety teams in Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and partners. He/she will need to maintain medical knowledge as required by the role, strong and current knowledge of drug safety and pharmacovigilance regulations, pharmacovigilance practices, safety surveillance and risk-management practices.

Responsibilities:

• Provide medical expertise in the assessment of ICSRs
• Contribute to the generation of aggregate safety reports including development safety update reports, periodic benefit risk evaluation reports, and provide medical input in review of new or existing safety documents to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, such as protocols, safety summaries and regulatory reports
• Contribute to signaling and safety surveillance process, including the identification of safety observations, emergent safety concerns and new safety signals, ensure prompt assessment and communication of confirmed safety signals
• Serve as a medical resource for the generation and review clinical trial protocols, informed consent forms (ICFs) and investigator brochures (IBs) and the development of Reference Safety Information
• Contribute to creation or and updates to Risk Management Plans (RMPs) and/or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) and the maintenance of these documents
• Contribute to the development of Standard Operating Procedures, Working Instructions and other guidance documents
• Provide safety and pharmacovigilance training programs as required
• Collaborate cross functionally (e.g. Reg Affairs, Clin Ops, Clin Science) to ensure pharmacovigilance input
• Support other pharmacovigilance and drug safety responsibilities as assigned

Competencies Include:

• Strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment and build effective working relationships across the organization, and with external stakeholders/vendors
• Detail and process orientated, with excellent project management, problem solving, and organization skills.
• Ability to think critically with strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated project management and prioritization capabilities

 Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in Drug Safety / Pharmacovigilance in a Biotech / Pharma company
• 8+ years of industry (Biotech / Pharma) experience
• Healthcare degree required / Medical Degree (MD) from recognized medical school preferred.
• Good working knowledge of US and EU drug safety regulations, CIOMS and ICH guidelines
• Demonstrated experience with medical drug safety assessments, drug safety surveillance and monitoring activities
• Proficiency with medical review of ICSRs, including expectedness assessments, causality assessments, narrative review and generation, generation of Analysis of Similar Event and company comment statements, including benefit-risk assessment.
• Experience with safety data collection and interpretation originating from clinical trials and other sources (such as literature, solicited and post-marketing environment)
• Experience with the medical review and preparation of aggregate reports (DSUR, PSUR/PBRER, PADER)
• Experience with preparation of responses to Regulatory Authorities, preferred experience with IND/NDA submissions and negotiations with Regulatory Authorities as part of marketing approval
• Experience with the development and updates to Reference Safety Information, including IB, Company Core Data Sheet (CCDS) and local labels
• Ability to build relationships, collaborate and influence across disciplines within Nuvalent and with outside stakeholders
• Experience with MedDRA coding, Points to Consider, AoSE, and SMQs
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Additional Information:

Nuvalent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, aiming to provide employees with competitive total rewards packages.

The targeted salary range reflects what Nuvalent reasonably and in good faith expects to offer for this position at the time of posting, but the final salary determination may be within or outside this range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and market factors.  The range will be reviewed regularly and is subject to change.

Nuvalent also offers a comprehensive benefit package to support our employees at each stage of their career, financial, health, and well-being journey, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan, generous paid time off (including a summer and winter company shutdown), and much more.

The Role:

Reporting to the Head of PV Science, the Associate Director, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Scientist is responsible for assessing and interpreting safety data from multiple sources, including clinical trials, spontaneous and solicited reports, aggregate, and literature reports. This individual is expected to provide interpretation and summaries of drug safety information and provide input in the generation of safety reports (e.g., DSURs, PADERs, PBRERs, and clinical safety assessments). This individual may also support the medical assessment of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) and other drug safety information. The individual will be an integral part of a group of safety professionals within Nuvalent and will closely collaborate with safety teams in Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and partners. He/she will need to maintain medical knowledge as required by the role, strong and current knowledge of drug safety and pharmacovigilance regulations, pharmacovigilance practices, safety surveillance and risk-management practices.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the generation of aggregate safety reports including development safety update reports, periodic benefit risk evaluation reports, and provide medical input in review of new or existing safety documents to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, such as protocols, safety summaries and regulatory reports
• Contribute to signaling and safety surveillance processes, including the identification of safety observations, emergent safety concerns and new safety signals, ensure prompt assessment and communication of confirmed safety signals
• Serve as a medical resource for the generation and review of clinical trial protocols, informed consent forms (ICFs) and investigator brochures (IBs) and the development of Reference Safety Information
• Contribute to creation or and updates to Risk Management Plans (RMPs) and/or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) and the maintenance of these documents
• Contribute to the development of Standard Operating Procedures, Working Instructions and other guidance documents
• Provide safety and pharmacovigilance training programs as required
• Collaborate cross functionally (e.g., Reg Affairs, Clin Ops, Clin Science) to ensure pharmacovigilance input
• Support the medical assessment of ICSRs as needed
• Support other pharmacovigilance and drug safety responsibilities as assigned

Competencies Include:

• Design global risk management frameworks for Nuvalent’s medicines
• Translate safety data into clinical insights
• Adapt visualization tools for safety surveillance
• Influence multidisciplinary teams to prioritize patient safety.
• Strong ability to build relationships, collaborate and influence across disciplines within Nuvalent and with outside stakeholders

Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in Drug Safety / Pharmacovigilance in a pharmaceutical or biotech company, CRO or regulatory agency
• 7+ years of Pharma / CRO experience. 
• Degree in a medical or healthcare related discipline like MD, PharmD, RN or PhD.
• Excellent knowledge of US and EU drug safety regulations, CIOMS and ICH guidelines
• Experience with medical drug safety assessments, drug safety surveillance and monitoring activities
• Experience with safety data collection and interpretation from clinical trials, literature and post market
• Experience with preparation of responses to Regulatory Authorities and experience with IND/NDA submissions and negotiations with Regulatory Authorities as part of marketing approval
• Experience with the development and updates to Reference Safety Information, IB, Company Core Data Sheet and local labels
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Additional Information:

Nuvalent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, aiming to provide employees with competitive total rewards packages.

The targeted salary range reflects what Nuvalent reasonably and in good faith expects to offer for this position at the time of posting, but the final salary determination may be within or outside this range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and market factors.  The range will be reviewed regularly and is subject to change.

Nuvalent also offers a comprehensive benefit package to support our employees at each stage of their career, financial, health, and well-being journey, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan, generous paid time off (including a summer and winter company shutdown), and much more.

Company Overview 

Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. (“Fulcrum”) [NASDAQ: FULC] is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to improve the lives of patients with genetically defined rare diseases in areas of high unmet medical need. Fulcrum’s lead program in clinical development is Pociredir, a small molecule designed to increase the expression of fetal hemoglobin for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD).

Description

Reporting to VP of Biometrics, the Director of biostatistics within the Biometrics Department is a hands-on role and is expected to be the statistics subject matter expert for clinical development programs and studies, including oversight of statistical activities in outsourced clinical trials, while ensuring adherence to all regulatory requirements. This individual is expected to have an in-depth understanding of innovative study designs and statistical methodologies, including estimand strategies, endpoint selection, missing data and multiplicity handling. In addition, this individual will have the capacity to understand the relevant multi-disciplinary knowledge and interact effectively within the biometrics department and with clinical development, clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, medical writing, and regulatory affairs.

Responsibilities

• Function as a lead statistician for internal studies.
• Contribute to enterprise strategy through proactive cross-functional collaborations and influence through decision making.
• Provide statistical input to strategic planning, study design, protocol development, sample size calculation, CRF, Results Interpretation, clinical study report, and address statistical questions from regulatory agencies.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses as needed.
• Provide oversight of biostatistics activities in outsourced clinical trials.
• Ensure high quality, timely delivery of statistical analysis plans and statistical outputs.
• Execute quality assurance procedures on work produced by others, ensuring statistical analysis is being done according to specifications.
• Provide support for publications as needed.
• Author or review statistical SOPs and Working Instructions.

Qualifications

• A Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) in Biostatistics or Statistics with a minimum of 8 years of relevant clinical biostatistics experience in pharma, biotech or CRO industry -OR- a Master's degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience is required.
• Comprehensive knowledge of innovative study design and statistical methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of relevant clinical and statistical regulatory requirements (e.g., GCP, ICH, CDISC, etc.).
• Regulatory interaction and submission experience is highly preferred.
• Experience in oversight of biostatistics activities in outsourced clinical trials is highly preferred.
• Proficiency in statistical software (e.g., SAS, R) and simulation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment.

Position Summary:

The Senior Clinical Scientist is responsible for providing scientific leadership and oversight for late-stage (Phase 3) clinical development programs in rare disease ophthalmology. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the scientific integrity, regulatory readiness, and successful execution of pivotal clinical trials intended to support global registration.

As a senior individual contributor, the Senior Clinical Scientist serves as a core scientific partner across clinical development, working closely with clinical operations, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and safety to translate strategy into executable, high-quality Phase 3 studies. This role is well-suited for an experienced hire with demonstrated success in late-stage clinical development within rare disease and/or ophthalmology.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide scientific leadership for Phase 3 clinical trials, including contributions to overall clinical development strategy, study design, endpoint selection, and patient population definition, with a focus on rare disease and ophthalmology indications.
• Lead or co-lead the development of pivotal study protocols, informed consent forms, and key scientific sections of regulatory documents, ensuring alignment with global regulatory expectations (FDA, EMA, and other health authorities).
• Serve as the scientific point of contact for assigned programs, providing ongoing oversight throughout trial execution, including review of emerging data, identification of scientific risks, and interpretation of results.
• Partner closely with clinical operations to ensure Phase 3 trials are scientifically sound, operationally feasible, and executed in accordance with protocol, timelines, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with biostatistics and data management to support statistical analysis plans, data review activities, interim analyses (as applicable), and final interpretation of clinical outcomes.
• Contribute to and support regulatory interactions, including preparation of briefing documents, responses to information requests, and participation in meetings with health authorities as a scientific representative of the program.
• Lead or significantly contribute to the preparation of clinical study reports, integrated summaries, investigator brochures, external presentations, scientific content for regulatory submissions, publications, author responses to questions from health authorities and other stakeholders.
• Support safety monitoring activities, including review and interpretation of adverse events and safety data, participation in safety review meetings, and collaboration with pharmacovigilance to ensure appropriate benefit–risk assessment for late-stage programs.
• Provide scientific input into investigator meetings, site feasibility and selection activities, and key study communications to ensure consistency and clarity across global trial sites.
• Mentor junior clinical scientists and contribute to the development of best practices, processes, and standards appropriate for a Phase 3–stage organization.

Deliver on other related projects and initiatives as assigned, with flexibility to support evolving program needs in a growing biotechnology environment.

Qualifications:

• Education and Certification
  • Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant scientific discipline required
• Work Experience
  • 6–10+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology clinical development setting, experience in Ophthalmology a plus
  • Demonstrated experience supporting or leading Phase 3 clinical trials, including protocol development, data interpretation, and clinical study reporting
  • Prior experience in rare disease and/or ophthalmology drug development strongly preferred
  • Experience supporting regulatory interactions and late-stage clinical submissions (e.g., NDA/BLA/MAA components) highly desirable
  • Experience working in a cross-functional, matrixed environment typical of small to mid-sized biotech companies
• Skills and Key Success Factors:
  • Deep understanding of late-stage clinical development and the scientific and regulatory expectations for pivotal trials
  • Strong scientific judgment with the ability to independently assess data, identify risks, and propose solutions
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in a fast-paced, resource-conscious organization
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to data quality, accuracy, and compliance
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex clinical data to internal and external stakeholders
  • Collaborative leadership style with proven ability to influence across disciplines without direct authority
  • Hands-on, proactive approach with a strong sense of accountability and urgency
  • Highest standards of professionalism, integrity, and ethical conduct

Other Relevant Information:

• Travel: Able to travel as assigned

Compensation

• Base Salary Range: $160K - $240K, with the actual contingent upon several factors such as the selected candidate’s education/work experience/training, and other factors (travel requirements, etc.)
• Discretionary Bonus: 15% - 20% of Base Salary, contingent upon meeting performance components
• Equity: initial grant of incentive stock options
• Benefits: Eligible to participate in group medical/dental/vision insurance plans; short- and long-term disability plans; life insurance; 401(K) plan; flexible time off policies and others. Eligibility and participation requirements vary by plan.

The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Director, Statistical Programming, the Associate Director, Statistical Programming will be responsible for implementing statistical analyses using SAS and performing quality review of SAS programs and deliverables for in-house analyses as well as out-sourced programming deliverables. This individual will also perform programming analyses to generate ad-hoc requests for publications and presentations.

This is a remote position that will work closely with Biostatistics, Data Management, Clinical Operations, Regulatory, Global Pharmacovigilance, and other related disciplines, as well as CROs.

Responsibilities:

• Function as lead programmer to produce and/or validate tables, listings, figures, and analysis datasets in response to regulatory requests, publication requests, and ad-hoc analyses; write specifications to describe programming needs.
• Develop/review TFL shells, SDTM and ADaM specifications in collaboration with biostatisticians and other clinical development colleagues.
• Work closely with Data Management and Biostatistics to ensure final databases, analyses, and reports are accurate.
• Partner with or oversee CROs or Programming vendors to perform the tasks described above.
• Ensure the proper collection, management, and documentation of clinical trial data according to regulatory requirements.
• Manages project timelines and schedules of specific phases of projects and collaborates with internal personnel and outside customer representatives.
• Identify problems and develop global tools that increase the efficiency and capacity of the Statistical Programming group (e.g., macros or graphical user interface applications).

Competencies Include:

•  Adaptability/Flexibility – The ability to adapt to working effectively within a variety of situations; adapts enthusiastically to organizational change and to changes in job demands.
• Communication and Teamwork – Ability to effectively express ideas in written and oral context; to work co-operatively with others; genuine desire to be a part of a team and contribute to organizational and team goals.
• Problem Solving – Ability to understand a situation or problem by breaking it down into smaller pieces using a systematic approach and to identify patterns and connections between situations that are not obviously related.
• Relationship Building – Builds productive working relationships and effectively communicates across a diverse spectrum of people.
• Organizational and results orientation – Ability to plan and handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and still meet high quality and timeliness standards under pressure.

 Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or related scientific/medical field.
• 8+ years of (SAS) statistical programming experience in a clinical trial setting (industry/CRO).
• Advanced SAS programming skills - procedures and options commonly used in clinical trials. reporting, including Macro language, BASE SAS, SAS/STAT, and SAS/GRAPH, validation/QC, experience generating listings, tables, figures.
• Hands-on knowledge of CDISC SDTM and ADaM models and transforming raw data into these standards.
• In-depth understanding of CDISC standards including SDTM and ADaM models and extensive experience of their implementation in clinical trials.
• Familiar with regulatory guidelines (FDA, EMA, ICH) related to clinical trials, statistics and data handling in clinical development setting, and advanced knowledge of submission requirements and standards.
• Experience with outsourcing programming activities and overseeing services provided by CROs and contractors.
• Advanced understanding of statistical concepts in support of clinical data analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of programming standards and processes.
• Oncology experience is required.
• Skilled at performing quality control checks of SAS code and outputs produced by other Statistical Programmers.

The Opportunity:

As a Senior / Medical Director at Relay Tx, you will help advance our clinical pipeline from IND to proof of concept to registration.  Specifically, you will collaborate with senior medical staff to drive clinical strategy, clinical trial design, and execution.  Working cross-functionally with clinical project management, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, biostatistics, data management and medical writing, you will play a key role as Relay Tx continues to introduce product candidates into the clinic.  You will provide clinical leadership to R&D teams and will work closely with Development leadership.   

We are open to remote employees

About You:  

• Collaborate with senior medical staff, drug discovery teams, translational oncology, clinical operations, clinical investigators and disease-specific experts to design and execute early clinical development plans that definitively test key translational hypotheses for Relay Tx medicines and establish clinical proof-of-concept as soon as possible after entering human testing. 

• Write clinical sections of key documents, including Investigator’s Brochures, IND summary documents, CTAs for initiation of ex-US studies and work with senior medical staff for responses to questions from regulatory authorities, IRBs, and ethics committees. 

• Provide expert medical review, assessment, and interpretation of clinical data and prepare results for presentation to internal clinical development leadership and external stakeholder including regulatory authorities.  

• Manage drug safety and pharmacovigilance activities for ongoing trial(s). 

• Attend and support clinical site initiation visits. 

• Rapidly integrate new insights derived from on-going Relay Tx or external clinical trials, translational science or basic science into Relay Tx development plans and clinical trial activities. 

• Collaborate with research leadership and drug discovery teams to shape the Relay Tx drug discovery portfolio. 

• Proactively manage communication and build strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.

• Ensure Relay Tx maintains the highest standards of compliance and ethical behavior in the design, conduct, interpretation and communication of clinical trials, clinical trial data, and clinical trial results. 

Your Background:  

• Experience working with solid tumors.
• A dynamic team player and effective communicator that thrives in a fast-paced environment. 
• MD, MD/PhD or other advanced degree with 5+ years of clinical development experience in academic and/or industry settings with work in oncology.  Motivated candidates with lesser experience and a passion to learn precision oncology clinical development and contribute to cross functional development teams will also be considered.
• Exposure to design and execution of clinical trials; protocol development and design, development of case report forms, and statistical analysis plans. 
• Exposure to working closely with investigative sites, including principal investigators, sub-investigators, study coordinators, and other site personnel involved in clinical trials. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• The successful applicant will thrive in the Relay Tx corporate culture where the core values are relentless, fearless, craftsmanship, candor, and humanity. You will be a key contributor to Relay clinical development and enabled to make a significant positive impact for patients. 

Estimated Salary Range: [$213,000 - $350,000].

The range provided above is based on what we believe to be a reasonable estimate for this job at the time of posting. Actual base salary will depend on a number of factors, including but not limited to, a candidate’s education, experience, skills and location.

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