
Director, Quality
Braveheart Bio
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Serve as a quality leader for Braveheart Bio and will be responsible for manufacturing quality oversight, and inspection readiness for our late-stage clinical program in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Execute the manufacturing quality oversight framework for investigational and commercial product to support global Phase 3 execution and to prepare for future regulatory submissions and commercialization activities
- Partner closely with Manufacturing, Regulatory, partners, and CDMOs to ensure best-in-class quality oversight across all programs
- Build a small team as the company grows
- Demonstrate end-to-end oversight of outsourced GMP activities across CDMOs, CMOs, and contract laboratories
- Monitor vendors and ensure compliance with Quality Agreements
- Use risk-based approaches to prioritize oversight activities
- Manage the quality transition from clinical to commercial manufacturing
- Align GMP systems with regulatory commitments and post-approval requirements
- Maintain focus on sustained state of control
- Build and sustain a continuous inspection readiness culture
- Lead teams through mock inspections and document readiness
- Ensure rapid, thorough, and strategic responses to inspection findings
- Work closely with CMC teams to embed quality expectations into the product development lifecycle
- Participate in project team meetings and cross-functional planning activities to ensure quality considerations are integrated into decision-making
- Provide ad hoc quality support across broader GxP activities as business needs evolve
- Support quality systems activities as needed
- Support enterprise quality system activities as needed
- Contribute to cross-functional quality initiatives, inspections, and issue resolution
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related discipline; advanced degree preferred
- 12+ years of GxP quality experience in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry, including deep experience in GMP and GDP oversight and global product development; GCP, GLP, GVP a plus
- Strong knowledge of global GMP regulations and regulatory expectations for late-stage clinical programs and commercialization
- Proven success executing manufacturing and supply chain quality oversight in a small or emerging biotech environment, including outsourced and virtual manufacturing models
- Experience collaborating with vendors and CDMOs, supporting inspection readiness and regulatory interactions
- Demonstrated experience with quality oversight of analytical method validation and process validation (PPQ)
- Has deep understanding of global regulatory inspection expectations
- Skilled in inspection management and communication (clear, concise, controlled responses)
- Demonstrated experience providing hands-on functional leadership, with the ability to set clear direction aligned to corporate strategy, regulatory requirements, and program objectives
- Ability to assess risk, solve complex problems, and implement practical, scalable quality solutions
- Demonstrated experience supporting global Phase 1 through commercial products, including interaction with QPs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity
- Flexible, proactive, and hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GxP quality experienceGMP oversightGDP oversightGCPGLPGVPanalytical method validationprocess validationinspection managementquality systems activities
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityteam-orientedrisk assessmentstrategic thinkingflexibilityproactivity