What: This is an opportunity to join an elite, experienced group of people from the ground up.  You will be instrumental in constructing a biotech portfolio and foundational to the culture.  If you are a creative problem-solver, excited to take ownership and responsibility, and prepared to play a key role in establishing a successful biotech fund, then this is for you.

Strategy: Fundamental-value based, equity long/short hedge fund focused on mid and small cap therapeutics, with the ability to lead deals both public and private.

Role: Senior Investment Professional

Timing: Immediately

Responsibilities: 

• Work directly with the CIO to deploy capital
• Evaluate companies and efficiently narrow in on the most promising opportunities for further diligence
• Conduct robust, process-oriented, and relevant fundamental analysis on those potential investments, including analysis of: preclinical assays, medical literature, clinical data, statistics, financial modeling, regulatory documents, financial filings, intellectual property, market considerations, valuation, and other
• Travel as needed to conferences
• Maintain proprietary databases and work with the CIO on portfolio considerations

Culture fit and integrity will be of upmost importance.  We will be looking for someone hard-working, open-minded, and eager to learn.  We believe in continuous growth and development.

Requirements:

• Several years of buyside therapeutics experience (preferably fundamental value orientation, long/short)
• Strong, relevant, academic background (Masters, PhD, PharmD, MD, undergraduate hard science degree)
• Complete fluency in the English language to ensure effective collaboration among team members

Qualifications:

• Resourceful
• Articulate
• Self-motivated
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Independent thinker
• Ability to collaborate effectively and contribute positively to firm culture
• Passion for investing in biopharmaceuticals
• Must be able to synthesize complex data and concepts into readily digestible formats
• Demonstrable capability of thinking creatively to develop novel insights and to solve problems
• Innately curious with the ability to narrow that curiosity to only purposeful pursuits
• Strong modeling skills in Microsoft Excel, with a plus if there is familiarity of any programming languages such as Python

Location: Southeast U.S.

Compensation: Competitive, with participation in fund performance

Please submit a CV, brief introductory commentary, and what excites you about investing long/short in drug development companies.