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Basecamp Research is building frontier AI for therapeutic design, using proprietary genomic data (BaseData) and EDEN models to design cell and gene therapies, enzymes, and peptides. The company recently closed a $140M Series C led by S32 with participation from NVIDIA, Anthropic's Anthology Fund, and others. They have offices and labs in London and Boston.
You will own the peptide and protein platform as a commercial product, sitting between the model/science teams and business development. You are accountable for the peptide portfolio having a defined buyer, defensible claims, and credible pricing.
Key responsibilities include:
**Market & Competitive Intelligence:** Build and maintain a rigorous view of the peptide/protein therapeutics landscape by segment, indication, and modality. Track competitor activity across AI-enabled discovery platforms, peptide-focused biotechs, and pharma capabilities. Maintain a live map of deal structures, comparables, and valuation benchmarks in platform licensing and co-development. Run structured voice-of-customer work with pharma R&D leaders and translate findings into prioritized requirements.
**Target Product Profiles & Programme Definition:** Author and defend target product profiles for internal programmes, specifying differentiated properties and evidence needs. Translate partner-supplied profiles into feasible research plans with scientific leadership. Define stage gates and go/no-go criteria for peptide programmes.
**Productization & Roadmap:** Decide which platform capabilities become licensable products and in what sequence. Own the peptide product roadmap end-to-end, balancing near-term revenue against durable differentiation. Define packaging and commercial models for each offering, including access arrangements, bespoke model fine-tuning, co-development structures, and asset-level licensing. Specify data needs from partners.
**Positioning, Evidence & Partner Engagement:** Lead partner engagement and revenue generation with the Business Development team. Build the peptide narrative and supporting materials: capability maps, benchmark summaries, validation packages, and competitive comparisons. Set and enforce standards for external claims regarding validation, benchmarks, and limitations. Support BD through partner meetings, scientific exchanges, conferences, and diligence. Collaborate on IP strategy, freedom-to-operate considerations, and novelty positioning.
**Requirements:**
- Ten or more years in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with substantial exposure to peptide, protein, or biologics therapeutics in discovery, development, product strategy, or business development.
- Demonstrable command of what makes peptides difficult as drugs: proteolytic stability, oral and systemic exposure, receptor selectivity and off-target risk, immunogenicity, formulation and manufacturability, and trade-offs between them.
- Track record of shaping and closing commercial partnerships, licensing agreements, or platform deals with pharmaceutical companies, or owning commercial strategy for a platform sold into pharma R&D.
- Proven ability to author target product profiles, competitive assessments, and commercial cases that senior stakeholders act on.
- Credibility in both technical discussions with computational and experimental scientists and commercial discussions with VPs of platform technologies, without over-claiming.
- Comfort operating with incomplete evidence and discipline to distinguish between validated, promising, and aspirational claims.
- Excellent written English; significant portion of role involves producing documents that must be accurate.
- Willingness to travel to represent Basecamp Research at clients and industry meetings.
**Desirable Experience:**
- Experience in metabolic disease, immunology, anti-infectives, or another therapeutic area with active peptide pipeline.
- Familiarity with macrocyclic peptides, peptidomimetics, non-canonical amino acids, conjugation strategies, or oral delivery technologies.
- Direct experience with AI-enabled drug discovery platforms from either platform or pharmaceutical side.
- Postgraduate degree in life science, chemistry, or related business area, or equivalent depth acquired in industry.
