Customer Success Lead

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Lever was founded ten years ago to tackle the most strategic challenge that companies face: how to recruit and hire top talent. We’re building the next generation of hiring software that companies like Netflix, Yelp, Cirque du Soleil, Shopify, and Spotify rely on to grow their teams. We've rethought the talent acquisition paradigm and are the innovation leaders in our space and looking for the right people to join us as we scale. We’re extraordinarily proud of the company we’ve built so far (not to mention humbled to be recognized as the #1 place to work in San Francisco, as well as a top workplace in the entire United States). Our people are Lever’s biggest competitive advantage and we’ll continue investing in our “Leveroos” and people-first culture.

We are looking for a scientist with expertise in drug discovery to grow our biology capabilities and contribute to our emerging drug pipeline. As Director, Lead Generation you will leverage your scientific experience and leadership skills to generate hypotheses, drive projects, develop strategy, and manage a group of scientists supporting progression of compounds from our discovery platform into optimization and the clinic. You will have an opportunity to work closely with management and with colleagues from across the company to develop and implement novel strategies for drug discovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilize knowledge, internal data, and external literature to develop and test hypotheses to link observed biology to human disease
• Lead drug discovery projects, working collaboratively with team members to progress projects and proactively communicating with stakeholders and management
• Build and manage a group responsible for in vitro assay development and compound profiling activities to support project progression
• Coordinate internal resources and external CRO efforts to ensure timely generation of high-quality in vitro and in vivo data
• Bring creativity and innovative approaches to target validation, assay development, and disease association
• Define and implement scientific and portfolio strategy

Key Skills

• Ph.D. in cellular or molecular biology, pharmacology, biochemistry, or a related discipline with 7+ years relevant industry experience or MS/BS with 10+ years relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated success as a scientific leader of multiple drug discovery projects with experience progressing compounds from identification through characterization and optimization in different therapeutic areas
• Demonstrated ability to lead a discovery biology group by hiring, mentoring, and motivating team members
• Experience with assay development for biochemical and/or cellular assays
• Experience with managing CRO activities to ensure generation of quality data to defined timelines
• Ability to work independently and to contribute in a cross-functional team environment
• Disease area expertise, especially dermatology or immunology, with knowledge of in vitro assays and in vivo models to link biology to human disease is preferred
• Experience working in biotech is preferred