Associate/Sr. Associate, New Opportunities

Company Overview

Curie.Bio is a founder-focused seed-stage venture firm combined with an industry-grade therapeutics accelerator focused on one thing: helping entrepreneurial founders launch viable therapeutics companies. Curie.Bio does this by giving founders access to a team of the world’s best drug hunters and drug makers, seed capital, and best-of-breed services - everything a founder needs to get from concept to a compelling dataset that enables an awesome Series A financing. In a nutshell, we want founders in control of their own company and focused on their area of expertise and creativity, while we help make the rest happen smoothly.

Curie.Bio was designed by founders for founders. Our founding team of Zach Weinberg, Christoph Lengauer, and Alexis Borisy, has collectively helped start numerous therapeutics companies and been intimately involved with the Series A financing of many more. We have witnessed firsthand the difficulty of going from a seed stage concept to generating the data package necessary for a successful Series A raise; targets need to be properly selected, experiment plans designed, vendors selected and contracted, experiments need to be run, people need to be hired - all with a few million dollars. These perennial challenges are what led to the creation of Curie.Bio. If we want to dramatically increase the number of viable drug companies created every year - we’re going to have to reduce the complexity of getting to a compelling POC data package required for a Series A. Reducing this complexity requires us to provide real support to these new companies - support that is both strategic (think target selection, unique access to strategic partnerships, early introductions to top Series A investors) and operational (experiment execution, vendor management, back office support). 

As an early employee joining us on this mission, you will see firsthand what it takes to successfully bring a company from concept at the seed stage to compelling wet-lab derived POC data with an industry-grade progressible drug (candidate) that enables a Series A financing. You will work alongside the world’s best drug hunters and industry veterans whose experience spans all facets of drug discovery and preclinical drug development - from disease biology to medicinal chemistry, to recruiting, to business development, and more. 

In order for Curie.Bio to achieve its mission, we need the best people. Companies are nothing more than a group of people working together on a shared objective. Great companies are when those individuals come together to form something larger than the sum of its parts. 

The Role

We are looking to hire an Associate/Senior Associate to join our New Opportunities team, where you will play a critical role in helping Curie.Bio catalyze the most exciting early-stage therapeutics companies. Day to day, you will work directly with founders, investors, scientific luminaries, and Curie.Bio leadership to drive sourcing initiatives and optimize internal processes for scaling our organization. We are looking for someone who is passionate about the bleeding edge of biotech and familiar with navigating the biotech ecosystem. Our ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who is detail-oriented, highly organized, and most of all - is excited to build an unparalleled network of the best and brightest people in the biotech ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Relationship Management: Develop, maintain, and manage strategic relationships with universities, foundations, incubators/accelerators, and other key entities to enhance Curie.Bio’s network and sourcing capabilities.
• Deal Flow Management: Oversee and prioritize inbound deal flow from various referral channels, ensuring Curie.Bio engages with top biotech entrepreneurs.
• VIP Engagement: Prepare and manage interactions with high-profile entrepreneurs and partners, ensuring high-quality engagements and long-lasting relationships. Event logistics and operations experience is a plus.
• Data Analytics: Review, clean, and optimize sourcing data to enhance targeting of high-quality investment opportunities, providing regular updates and insights.
• Content Creation: Develop and manage internal and external content, including website updates, newsletters, and social media, to attract founders and support Curie Bio’s internal processes. Public writing and social media experience are a plus.
• Process Improvement: Drive the integration and improvement of people, processes, and software infrastructure to ensure efficient and effective interactions with founders from initial contact through to investment decisions.
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Background
• >2 years of professional experience
• The preferred candidate has experience in biotech investing, management consulting, or operating inside of a venture-backed or public biotech company.
• Master’s degree a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry, or related discipline 
• Hands-on entrepreneurial or drug discovery experience is a plus
• Skills
• Ability to juggle and make independent progress on many disparate workstreams simultaneously
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Does not ever drop the ball
• Data and analytically driven
• A high internal bar for quality 
• Thinks systematically about trade-offs related to process design
• Intrinsically motivated to seek continuous improvement
• Creative thinker - can think outside the box
• Extraordinary interpersonal skills - i.e. high EQ

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