Academic Partnerships Director

The role

The Academic Partnerships Director will grow adoption of the Beacon Platform within academic and research institutions. This person will build and manage relationships with principal investigators, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia.

What you will do

• Build and manage a portfolio of relationships with PIs, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia.
• Partner with PIs during proposal development to position Beacon's platform for grant-funded studies.
• Apply knowledge of U.S. academic grant funding cycles and international regulatory frameworks to shape proposals.
• Grow and steward relationships with academic core facilities and research consortia.
• Own account-level pipeline generation, negotiation, and closing for academic and grant-funded opportunities.
• Represent Beacon at relevant academic and scientific conferences.
• Serve as a scientific thought partner to PIs and research teams.
• Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams.
• Provide leadership with visibility into pipeline health and emerging opportunities.
• Manage and extend the Academic strategy, including pricing structure.

Required qualifications

• MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience.
• 3+ years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role.
• Firsthand familiarity with the academic research and grant funding environment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills.
• A track record of self-generated pipeline.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to use CRM tools to track accounts and opportunities.
• Experience contracting with academic institutions, including Tech Transfer Offices and Legal teams.
• Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings, 1-3 times per quarter.

Nice to have

• Experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain

Benefits

• Incentive compensation
• Equity
• PTO
• Other benefits

About the company

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. They offer an at-home EEG platform for clinical development and are building a platform for precision diagnostics.