Academic Partnerships Director

🕒 October 20

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Account Manager

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Beacon Biosignals

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

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Beacon Biosignals is a company focused on powering precision medicine for the brain. Their EEG neurobiomarker platform is engineered to accelerate clinical trials and enable new treatments for patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases. The platform captures a rich array of the brain's activity in real time and utilizes machine learning to analyze EEG data for treatment efficacy, dose selection, and population stratification. Beacon Biosignals partners with biopharma companies, academic medical centers, and neurotechnology developers to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

📋 Description

• Grow adoption of the Beacon Platform and research use of its medical devices within academic and research institutions • Build and manage relationships with principal investigators, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia • Identify, cultivate, and secure partnership opportunities for grant-funded and foundation-sponsored research • Support PIs during proposal development by positioning Beacon’s Waveband EEG platform and analytics capabilities • Support scientific and budgetary narratives during grant-writing • Apply knowledge of U.S. academic grant funding cycles and mechanisms, as well as EU and international regulatory frameworks • Grow relationships with academic core facilities and research consortia for institution-wide or multi-site adoption • Own pipeline generation, negotiation, closing, CRM activity tracking, and forecasts • Represent Beacon at academic and scientific conferences and build networks among grants administrators, research development offices, and technology transfer offices • Serve as a scientific thought partner to PIs and research teams • Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams • Report pipeline health, win/loss patterns, and emerging opportunities to leadership • Manage and extend the Academic strategy, including pricing structure • Report directly to the President of Life Sciences and Chief Business Officer

🎯 Requirements

• MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience • 3+ years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role • Firsthand familiarity with the academic research and grant funding environment, gained through prior lab, postdoctoral, or research administration experience • Strong scientific acumen, with experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain preferred • Demonstrated ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs for delivery teams • Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted relationships with PIs, research administrators, and academic leadership • Track record of self-generated pipeline and creative demand generation that becomes revenue-generating partnerships • Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to navigate academic funding cycles while managing a disciplined pipeline • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including proposal language and presentations for scientific and administrative audiences • Ability to use CRM tools to track accounts and opportunities • Experience contracting with academic institutions, including Tech Transfer Offices and Legal teams • Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings 1–3 times per quarter • Empathy for stakeholders, coworkers, users, and patients

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive compensation • Equity • PTO • Other benefits • Remote work arrangement • Periodic travel to customer meetings, academic conferences, and site visits

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