Associate Director, Innovation Lab

Summary

Join Tarsus Pharmaceuticals as an Associate Director Innovation Lab to drive internal innovation and creation of new eye care pipeline programs. The ideal candidate has experience in a pharmaceutical or biotech startup environment and is driven to find disruptive business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Work very closely with cross-functional executive and senior leadership as resources to critically identify and evaluate unmet needs in eyecare
• Establish a business plan in sync with early technical development
• Iteratively test and refine the business model
• Conduct market analyses for potential commercial indications of the innovation; assess the competitive landscape
• Analyze the clinical, regulatory, reimbursement pathways
• Engage with cross-functional teams in early-stage testing, validation, and refinement of business ideas to ensure product-market-fit
• Identify early in-license opportunities, if required, and specifically related to the innovation
• Initiate and further develop business relationships
• Partner with current Innovation Lab leadership to co-lead strategy and developing the current early unmet needs pipeline
• Partner on intellectual property diligence and filings relating to the innovation
• Initiate and further develop business relationships with them, and participate in the structuring, drafting, and negotiating of term sheets and agreements, partnering with Legal, Business Development, Finance, and others
• Contribute to a culture of innovation, translation, and entrepreneurship within Tarsus