Senior Director, Target Validation & Immunology

Eli Lilly and Company; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Pension

Vacation benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Eli Lilly and Company in San Diego seeks a Director/Senior Director for New Target Validation within Discovery Immunology. You will guide biological strategy, validate targets, and lead cross-functional teams across internal and external partners to enable translational readiness and robust mechanism understanding.

The role emphasizes pharmacology design, functional assays, and collaboration with CROs, academics, and technology partners to advance candidates.

Qualifications

• Projects require leadership and strong collaboration across teams.
• Candidates should demonstrate data-driven decision making.
• Ability to present complex data to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead end-to-end strategy for new target validation.
• Drive innovation with human systems for target validation.
• Integrate multimodal profiling to strengthen disease relevance.
• Communicate plans across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Train discovery biologists in molecular designs and assays.
• Guide cross-functional teams through a matrixed organization.

Skills

Leadership

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Immunology

Job description

Eli Lilly and Company in San Diego seeks a Director/Senior Director for New Target Validation within Discovery Immunology. You will guide biological strategy, validate targets, and lead cross-functional teams across internal and external partners to enable translational readiness and robust mechanism understanding.

The role emphasizes pharmacology design, functional assays, and collaboration with CROs, academics, and technology partners to advance candidates.