Loyal

Chief Technical Operations Officer

Loyal

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $300,000 - $400,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Strategic oversight of all drug program manufacturing and fulfillment from discovery to commercialization.
  • Risk management and contingency planning, particularly for low-likelihood but high-impact adverse outcomes.
  • Technical, day-to-day oversight of analytical, drug substance, and drug formulation functions.
  • Represent Loyal with external CDMO partners and ensure seamless transition from R&D to commercialization.
  • Ensure facilities, documentation, and operations are in a constant state of inspection readiness and in compliance with national & local regulatory requirements.
  • Design and scale the organizational structure for Loyal’s technical manufacturing operations.
  • Build and sustain a high-performing culture of efficient execution, ethics, truth seeking, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Emerged to leadership role via R&D (ie, strong technical expertise in analytical, drug synthesis or drug formulations).
  • Comfort with ambiguity and extreme ownership.
  • Learner’s mindset.
  • Ability to build and lead teams and own workstreams independently.
  • Experience with both established companies and startups, ideally having previously experienced a company scaling first-hand.
  • Track record of successful FDA interactions and dossier approvals.
  • Expertise managing external manufacturing models.
  • Confident, low-ego leader with excellent communication skills.
  • Strong strategic thinker who enjoys tying manufacturing strategy to the broader company strategy.
  • Deep alignment with Loyal’s mission to extend healthy lifespan in dogs — and eventually humans.