Associate Director, ​Head of Compound & Data Management

About the role: 

Superluminal Medicines, Inc. is seeking a highly organized, detail oriented, and experienced Head of Compound and Data Management to help us build fully integrated, automated, and data-driven compound management and assay biology workflows. This role is essential to ensure that the scientists can focus on the science and trust that every experimental data point that is collected is underpinned by confidence in the compounds being tested. The person that fills this role understands how fundamental and critical compound management is to the experimental data being generated and how important data capture, recording, and communication is to drug discovery. 

Superluminal’s platform aims to develop candidate-ready compounds with unprecedented speed using a combination of deep biology, computational and medicinal chemistry, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure. This role will sit at the interface of biology, chemistry, and technology and requires the candidate to have experience in cross-functional collaborations. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, thrives in a startup environment, and brings strong experience in management.

Key responsibilities: 

• Key business partner to chemistry, biology, and digital data & technology (DDT) groups
• Oversees strategy, roadmaps, and long-term plans of the group
• Participate in project team meetings to anticipate and respond to needs and keep the team informed of capabilities and bottlenecks
• Manage external CRO relationships and internal compound manager
• Lead the build of internal compound management capabilities
• Collaborate with biology and DDT to:
• establish dashboards, new CDD vault protocols, run-booking systems, data pipelines, etc.
• develop harmonized experiment templates, assay workflows, and metadata models to ensure scientific and operational consistency across projects
• improve process from plate maps to CDD upload
• improve integration across ELN/instruments/CDD
• Own the assay tracking Smartsheets across programs
• Investigate new automation, LCMS, and other capabilities. Develop a business case as appropriate and lead new capability builds if approved.
• Assist leadership with laboratory expansion planning and scaling strategy and ensure efficient execution
• Ensure compliance with all laboratory safety requirements including OSHA, biosafety, chemical hygiene and other regulatory standards
• Identify inefficiencies in our operational processes and implement solutions to address them

Qualifications & Skills:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

• Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, or closely related field with 10+ years of industry experience or M.S. degree with 7+ years of industry experience
• Experience managing direct reports, CROs and key stakeholders
• Experience building or overseeing compound management capabilities 
• Experience with laboratory automation
• Experience managing lab buildouts or expansions
• Experience with research informatics, data science, or scientific programming is a plus
• Experience with compound shipping logistics, particularly with international shipments and customs documents a plus
• Highly organized self-starter with a strong ability for problem solving and effective execution
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple tasks
• Ability to work onsite full-time