Director, Scientific Data

About the Role

Drug Hunter is a B2B scientific intelligence platform for biotech/pharma R&D scientists that empowers them to discover the medicines of the future. We serve >250 R&D institutions, including most of the top global biotech & pharma companies. We're a mission-driven, product-focused company backed by top-tier investors and trusted by the world's leading R&D organizations.

The Director, Scientific Data will own the integrity, structure, and evolution of Drug Hunter’s scientific data across our knowledge platform and scientific databases. You will lead the scientific data team within our Technical organization and be the bridge between our scientists and our engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary internal subject-matter expert for cheminformatics and scientific data, with sufficient breadth across bioinformatics and drug discovery data to guide data decisions spanning chemistry and biology.
• Own the scientific strategy for how Drug Hunter acquires, represents, integrates, normalizes, and maintains scientific data, partnering with Engineering on the architecture and systems that operationalize that strategy and Science on both automated and manual data curation processes.
• Define how chemical entities are represented, registered, standardized, and resolved across sources, and establish curation standards, controlled vocabularies, QA rules, and tooling that