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Lindus

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

☁️ SaaS

💰 Grant - Lindus on 2025-04

Healthcare • Biotechnology • SaaS

Lindus is a next-generation contract research organization (CRO) that combines integrated clinical trial delivery with an AI-assisted trial operating system. They offer end-to-end trial services—including patient identification and enrollment, flexible site models, decentralized trial capabilities, and integrated services—under a milestone- and performance-based commercial model that ties payments to timelines and operational performance. Lindus emphasizes real-time visibility, a single accountable team for study design through database lock, and expertise across cardiometabolic, respiratory, psychiatry, women’s health, dermatology, and diagnostics. The company operates across the US, UK, and Europe with APAC partnerships and reports over 160 full-time staff and high enrollment performance (82% of Lindus trials completed enrollment on or ahead of proposed timelines in the past three years).

📋 Description

• Owning clinical development strategy across the LTx portfolio, determining how each asset reaches a value-generating Phase 2 proof-of-concept readout quickly and capital-efficiently. • Take a voting position on Lindus’ investment committee (alongside CEO and CMO), selecting which assets to in-license and develop • Designing Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies, including FIH and dose-escalation strategy, endpoints, patient population, biomarker approach and go/no-go criteria. • Leading scientific and clinical diligence on shortlisted assets alongside the deal team and external experts, and making the developability call. • Building and directing a virtual development organization: recruiting and managing fractional and consultant CMC, regulatory, pharmacology and clinical talent. • Designing each program backward from the exit, ensuring the Phase 2 clinical and CMC package is built for what a strategic or specialty pharma buyer will pay for. • Partnering with the VP Corporate Development on asset evaluation, deal structuring and negotiation, providing the development view into diligence. • Leading regulatory interactions with the FDA, EMA and other agencies, including pre-IND meetings, Type B interactions and scientific advice procedures. • Representing LTx's development thesis with investors, partners and the board.

🎯 Requirements

• A senior clinical development leader. You have led clinical programs through Phase 1 and Phase 2 at pharma or biotech companies across more than one non-oncology therapeutic area. • Experience with in-licensed and partnered assets. • You design around the exit. • Portfolio experience. You've led or overseen multiple programs simultaneously and are comfortable making hard prioritization calls between assets. • Able to run lean in a biotech setting. You've delivered strong Phase 1 and Phase 2 data within tight constraints. • A network to draw on. You can stand up regulatory, CMC, pharmacology and clinical capabilities as each asset needs them. • Comfortable with AI tools. You use them across research, planning and analysis, with a clear sense of where they help and where scientific judgment is needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity; you'll own a piece of what we're building • $2,000 annual Learning & Development budget for courses, certifications and conferences • $800 monthly employer contribution toward insurance for US team members (via TriNet PEO) • $40 monthly wellness allowance with flexibility on how to spend it, including company private health insurance or a Wellhub membership • Access to gym and retail discounts through Happl • Regular company events and team gatherings (both virtual and in-person) • Charity partnerships and volunteering opportunities with Forward Trust • Work with a team that's changing healthcare for the better