Product Lead Peptide Therapeutics
Basecamp Research is an AI-biology company building the BaseData genomic dataset and EDEN biological foundation models for therapeutic design.
About Basecamp Research
The company uses proprietary evolutionary sequence data to train EDEN foundation models, including models that can be accessed through Claude for antibiotic-peptide design and immunogenicity prediction. Its therapeutic platform also includes AI-Programmable Gene Insertion (aiPGI).
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the peptide platform as a commercial product, connecting scientific and model work with business development. You will define market strategy, target product profiles, product roadmaps, commercial models, evidence standards, and partner-facing positioning. You will assess competitive activity and deal structures, gather pharmaceutical customer insights, guide programme stage gates, support partner engagements, and contribute to intellectual-property strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years of pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience with peptide, protein, or biologics therapeutics.
- Knowledge of peptide drug challenges, including stability, exposure, selectivity, off-target risk, immunogenicity, formulation, and manufacturability.
- Experience shaping and closing pharmaceutical partnerships, licensing agreements, platform deals, or commercial strategy for a platform sold into pharmaceutical R&D.
- Ability to author target product profiles, competitive assessments, and commercial cases.
- Ability to discuss technical topics with scientists and commercial topics with pharmaceutical stakeholders.
- Excellent written English.
- Willingness to travel internationally once or twice a month.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain market and competitive intelligence for peptide therapeutics.
- Track competitor activity and translate insights into roadmap and pricing implications.
- Maintain deal-structure, comparable, and valuation benchmarks for licensing and co-development.
- Run voice-of-customer research with pharmaceutical R&D leaders and produce prioritised requirements.
- Author and defend target product profiles for internal peptide programmes.
- Translate partner target product profiles into feasible research plans.
- Define programme stage gates and go or no-go criteria.
- Decide which platform capabilities become licensable products and sequence them.
- Own the peptide product roadmap and manage scope.
- Define packaging and commercial models for platform offerings.
- Specify partner data requirements for platform improvement.
- Build positioning materials, validation packages, and competitive comparisons.
- Set standards for accurate, appropriately caveated external claims.
- Support business development in partner meetings, conferences, and diligence.
- Collaborate on intellectual property strategy, freedom-to-operate, and novelty positioning.
Benefits
- Equity
- Healthcare
- Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend
- 401(k)
- Life insurance