Director, Medicinal Chemistry

Proud to be recognized as one of Forbes' America's Best Startups!  Also proud to be recognized as a Most Loved Workplace! Enveda is looking for a Director, Medicinal Chemistry to join our team in Hyderabad, India The contribution you will make: We are looking for a Director, Medicinal Chemistry with a demonstrated track record ofdelivery of optimized leads and clinical candidates for advancing them into human clinical trials. You will lead medicinal chemistry activities for two or more projects in parallel. You will be involved in identifying pre-leads, design and optimization of leads for potency, selectivity and druggability and also strong IP generation. You will recruit PhD and M. Sc. synthetic chemists and mentor them as medicinal chemists and manage their performance and improve their productivity. You will collaborate with your peers in Medicinal Chemistry and work as a team to increase delivery of compounds to the Clinical Pipeline of Enveda. You will also collaborate with Senior Leaders in other functional departments such as ADME, Analytical Sciences and Pharmacology and deliver high value molecules to Enveda. As a member of the broader Drug Discovery team, you will report to the VP, Discovery Chemistry.