Senior Director, Biotech Partnerships & Licensing

Flagship Pioneering; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Quotient Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director of Business Development to lead partnering, asset in-licensing, and market intelligence, reporting to the CFO. The role shapes the portfolio and executes partnerships with external entities.

The candidate will blend scientific insight with commercial judgment, manage end-to-end deals, and collaborate across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and executive teams in a fast-paced, early-stage setting.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, business, or related field; MBA or equivalent is a plus.
• 10+ years of biotech/pharma business development, corporate strategy, licensing, or related function.
• Proven experience executing or contributing to biopharma partnership and licensing transactions.
• Strong understanding of drug development and biopharma industry.
• Experience evaluating external assets and cross-functional diligence.
• Ability to perform market, competitive, and commercial analyses for drug programs.
• Strong financial/analytical capabilities incl. asset valuation and deal economics.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to work hands-on in early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive business development strategy aligned with scientific, clinical, and corporate objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, and cultivate relationships with potential pharma and biotech partners.
• Lead partnership opportunities from identification through valuation, negotiation, and execution.
• Develop partnership materials including assessments, rationales, valuations, and exec presentations.
• Build and maintain a network across biotech and pharma industries.
• Identify opportunities for co-development, licensing, and other strategic transactions.
• Support corporate strategy by providing external market and competitive intelligence.
• Lead evaluation of external assets and technologies to expand the pipeline.
• Establish processes for sourcing and prioritizing in-licensing opportunities.
• Coordinate cross-functional due diligence with scientific, regulatory, IP, legal, and finance teams.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for external program investments.
• Lead licensing negotiations around economics, development responsibilities, milestones, royalties, territories, governance.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of emerging technologies and platform opportunities.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Business development

Relationship building

Education

Advanced degree in life sciences/medicine/business

Job description

Quotient Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director of Business Development to lead partnering, asset in-licensing, and market intelligence, reporting to the CFO. The role shapes the portfolio and executes partnerships with external entities.

The candidate will blend scientific insight with commercial judgment, manage end-to-end deals, and collaborate across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and executive teams in a fast-paced, early-stage setting.