Investment Lead

Stripe

Investment Lead at Stripe investing in biotech and biohealth technologies for respiratory virus solutions. Responsible for diligence, portfolio management, and developing investment strategies in a small team environment.

Posted 7/25/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in evaluating scientific quality and development plans within the biotech sector, particularly in immunology and infectious disease. Proven ability to manage portfolios, translate scientific diligence into strategic investment recommendations, and drive projects through to completion.

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MD/PhD In ImmunologyBiotech Investment ExperiencePortfolio ManagementProject ManagementStrategic Investment Recommendations

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Hard Skills

Scientific DiligencePortfolio ConstructionCapital DeploymentProduct DevelopmentProject Execution

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicatorSelf-DirectedDiligentFast LearnerAction Oriented

Tools & Technologies

CRM Management

Industry Keywords

ImmunologyInfectious DiseaseBiotechInvestmentGrantmaking

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Expand the pipeline of candidates. Proactively engage networks (researchers, investors, founders, funders, etc.) to source new ideas and technologies. Manage referral channels (open RFP, referrals, etc.) and screen investment and grant opportunities.
Own projects through diligence and transaction execution. Advance companies through early and deep / technical diligence: evaluating science quality, development plans, team, and fit against our TPP. Drive the investment or grantmaking process, coordinating with internal and external legal and diligence consultants. Bring projects through internal approval processes and act as the internal owner/champion.
Develop points of view on technologies. Contribute to publishing a POV for the 5-10 most promising approaches (i.e., siRNA, T-cell vaccine, innate immune stimulators) and identify the key 'gating datapoints' that would make us kill or double down on that approach and when we'll get that datapoint (or if there is a gap).
Build and maintain the CRM. Help ensure our CRM captures ~all known projects, and we have a process to systematically learn about/capture the best new projects early.
Portfolio management. Supporting portfolio projects and leading on efforts to accelerate and support projects post investmentDetermine what would let the top projects in the field move 2x faster beyond funding and make sure those things happen.
Map demand-side bottlenecks. Help map key stakeholders and address key evidence needs and bottlenecks across regulatory, clinical, recommendations, reimbursement and adoption/uptake.

Requirements

What you’ll need

MD/PhD in immunology or infectious disease with 2+ years of investing, BD/partnering, or grantmaking experience or minimum 5 years of biotech investor experience in immunology or infectious disease at VC fund
Experience with portfolio management, including portfolio construction and post-award management
Ability to translate scientific diligence into strategic investment recommendations and a coherent capital deployment view
Product development experience (and/or broad exposure via investing in or supporting companies)
Experience with project management from launch to completion / project quarterback with a high openness to getting hands dirty
Extremely self-directed, diligent, very fast learner, excellent communicator, very action oriented (vs talking about things)
Compelled by our mission to greatly reduce the burden of and risks from respiratory viruses

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Flexible work hours