Job Description

Location: Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York City

Firm Overview:

Foresite Capital is a multi-stage healthcare and life sciences investment firm with $3.5B+ in assets under management. The firm aims to address areas of great unmet need by funding promising healthcare and life sciences businesses at all stages of their life cycles.

Job Description:

Foresite Capital is seeking an Associate to hire for their investment team. This role entails close collaboration with the Therapeutics team to identify, assess, and manage biotech investment opportunities, specifically focusing on pre-clinical and clinical-stage therapeutics. You will be a part of an energetic team with the ability to contribute to a growing, entrepreneurial organization.  

Responsibilities:

• Conduct scientific, clinical and commercial analysis to support due diligence for investment opportunities, including but not limited to: 

  • Create scientific diligence memos for various therapeutic areas of focus

  • Build / maintain financial models and understand industry trends as well as competitive dynamics for portfolio companies and prospective investments

  • Conduct due diligence with key opinion leaders and industry experts; take notes for company meetings and physician calls

• Attend investor events, sell-side conferences, and medical meetings

• Produce company-specific and general healthcare industry reports, presentations, and written summaries 

• Maintain internal databases relevant to new and existing drugs in development

• Support other special projects / ad-hoc requests, as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences from a top-tier academic institution; biopharma-related advanced degree (PhD/MD/PharmD) preferred, but not required

• Minimum one year of experience in an investment banking, sell-side equity research, buy-side, or consulting role, with a focus in healthcare

• Familiarity with all stages of the drug development process, including discovery research, lead selection and optimization, preclinical testing, IND-enabling studies, clinical trial design, and clinical trial execution

• Understanding of human biology and physiology

• Ability to assess the quality and reliability of published data, with a hunger for experimental details

• Ability to work in a collaborative environment with other members of the investment team and thrive in a fast-paced and highly self-motivated professional culture

• Excellent quantitative and problem-solving skills, good attention to detail

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to analyze and summarize complex information both verbally and in writing

• Highly motivated, strong work ethic

• Outstanding organizational skills, able to multi-task and manage various deadlines  

Compensation:

Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000

Other: Annual discretionary bonus, attractive benefits package

All applications must be submitted through this posting to ensure review by our hiring team.

Please do not reach out to FCM employees.