Academic Partnerships Director

🕒 August 4

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Beacon Biosignals

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

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Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

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

• Build and manage relationships with principal investigators, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia pursuing grant-funded studies. • Partner with principal investigators during proposal development to position Beacon’s Waveband EEG platform and analytics capabilities for grant-funded studies. • Support scientific and budgetary narratives during grant-writing. • Apply knowledge of U.S. academic grant funding cycles and mechanisms, including R01, R21, U01, SBIR/STTR, foundation, and philanthropic grants. • Use knowledge of EU and international regulatory frameworks to time outreach and shape proposals. • Grow relationships with academic core facilities and research consortia for institution-wide or multi-site platform adoption. • Own account-level pipeline generation, negotiation, and closing for academic and grant-funded opportunities. • Record activity and forecasts in Beacon’s CRM. • 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 principal investigators and research teams. • Translate Beacon’s technology and data assets into value for study designs and aims. • Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams to scope and deliver partnerships. • Provide leadership with visibility into pipeline health, win/loss patterns, and emerging opportunities. • Manage and extend the Academic strategy, including pricing structure.

🎯 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 academic research and grant funding environments through prior lab, postdoctoral, or research administration experience. • Strong scientific acumen; experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain preferred. • Ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs. • Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted relationships with PIs, research administrators, and academic leadership. • Track record of self-generated pipeline and demand generation that produces revenue-generating partnerships. • Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort navigating long, unpredictable academic funding cycles. • 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 Technology Transfer Offices and Legal teams. • Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings 1–3 times per quarter. • Empathy for academic researchers, research administrators, coworkers, and patients.

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive compensation • Equity • PTO • Other benefits