Vice President, Clinical Development, Oncology
About Xaira Therapeutics
Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
Position summary
Xaira Therapeutics is seeking a Vice President, Early Clinical Development to lead development of the company’s oncology portfolio as it advances from discovery into the clinic. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Translational Science and Early Clinical Development, the Vice President will be accountable for clinical development strategy, IND-enabling clinical planning, first-in-human study design and execution, and the progression of priority programs through clinical proof of concept and into late-stage development.
This is a founding clinical development role. The Vice President will establish the
