Salary
💰 $300,000 - $400,000 per year
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.