Principal, Clinical Trials & Therapeutics

Taidou LLC.; Texas; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Taidou LLC is seeking a Principal, Clinical Trials & Therapeutics to lead our Atlas life‑sciences segment. You will own client relationships, set go‑to‑market strategy, and direct the team delivering advisory services for biotech, pharma, devices and clinical research founders.

You will build a high‑visibility pipeline, coordinate with investors, CROs and sponsors, and represent Taidou Atlas at industry events. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast‑moving firm.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in biotech, pharma, medical devices, clinical research or life-sciences investing with senior client- or investor-facing responsibility.
• A strong existing network among life-sciences founders, clinical-stage companies, research sponsors and specialist investors.
• A track record of building a business line, portfolio or programme and growing revenue.
• Excellent judgement and communication with founders, investors and executives.
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving firm with high autonomy.
• Experience building or running a marketplace, platform or network business (nice to have).
• Experience leading a small sales or client team (nice to have).
• Based in or regularly in Texas (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Lead Atlas's life-sciences segment: therapeutics, medical-device and clinical-research companies on Taidou Exchange.
• Advise clinical-stage companies on readiness—clinical and regulatory milestones, trial operations, budgets and investor storytelling.
• Route companies to vetted specialist providers (CROs, regulatory, IP, reimbursement) and to life-sciences investors.
• Own the segment's pipeline, revenue and targets, and lead Account Executives, SDRs and client-relationship staff.
• Represent Taidou Atlas at events, on panels and across the ecosystem; co-host programs with partners.
• Work with the consulting practice when a company or fund needs deeper advisory work.
• Keep relationships, pipeline and activity current in the Taidou CRM; report on segment performance.

Skills

Senior leadership

Client relationships

Business development

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Taidou is a private management consulting firm built around real, measurable results. Taidou Atlas is our startup and private-markets practice: through Taidou Exchange we give founders and small businesses one integrated advisory network to build company infrastructure, connect with vetted service providers, complete readiness work, and reach private-market opportunities and curated investor discovery — with no revenue or size minimums.

Atlas works with four groups at once: founders, investors (venture capital, private equity and family offices), the accelerators and ecosystem partners who support them, and the service providers they rely on. Companies move through the Exchange in stages — intake, build, route and raise — and we hold the line on when a company is genuinely ready to meet an investor.

The Role

As Principal, Clinical Trials & Therapeutics, you lead one of Taidou Atlas's core segments: life-sciences founders, clinical-stage companies, research sponsors and specialist investors. You own the relationships, the go-to-market and the quality of the work for this group, and you are the senior voice Atlas brings to the table with them. This is a hands-on leadership role — you build the network, advise directly, and grow the team and revenue behind it.

What You'll Do

• Lead Atlas's life-sciences segment: therapeutics, medical-device and clinical-research companies on Taidou Exchange.
• Advise clinical-stage companies on readiness — clinical and regulatory milestones, trial operations, budgets and the story investors will test.
• Route companies to vetted specialist providers (CROs, regulatory, IP, reimbursement) and to life-sciences investors.
• Own the segment's pipeline, revenue and targets, and lead the Account Executives, SDRs and client-relationship staff who support it.
• Represent Taidou Atlas at events, on panels and across the ecosystem, and co-host programmes with partners.
• Work with the consulting practice when a company or fund needs deeper advisory work.
• Keep relationships, pipeline and activity current in the Taidou CRM, and report on segment performance.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of experience in biotech, pharma, medical devices, clinical research (CRO/site/sponsor) or life-sciences investing, including senior client- or investor-facing responsibility.
• A strong existing network among life-sciences founders, clinical-stage companies, research sponsors and specialist investors.
• A track record of building a business line, portfolio or programme and growing revenue.
• Excellent judgement and communication with founders, investors and executives.
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving firm with high autonomy.

Preferred (nice to have, not required)

• Experience building or running a marketplace, platform or network business.
• Experience leading a small sales or client team.
• Based in or regularly in Texas.

How We Work

• Senior-led delivery — no bench, no handoff between the team that wins the work and the team that runs it.
• Named scope and named exclusions, agreed before work starts.
• Handover after adoption, to named owners, with a follow-up review we schedule ourselves.
• Independence from vendors: no referral fees, reseller margins or commissions.

Engagement & Compensation

This role is contract-to-hire. You join Taidou as an independent contractor for an initial onboarding period (typically 90 days), during which we agree your goals together. Once the conversion criteria set out in your offer are met, you convert to a full-time position with benefits.

Compensation is competitive and set according to experience and scope, and includes commission on the business you originate or grow. Full details are confirmed in your offer letter.

Compensation. Competitive

Equal opportunity. Taidou LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and interview process — email [e-mail] to request one.

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