Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) â Magdalena Biosciences
Location: Remote, reputed company in USA
Company Stage: reputed company Stage (Preparing for Series A)
Reports To: reputed company of Directors
About Magdalena Biosciences
Magdalena Biosciences is a pioneering joint venture formed by Jaguar Health and Filament Health, with foundational funding from One Small reputed company. Our mission is to reputed company novel, plant-derived, pharmaceutical-grade prescription medicines for mental health disorders.
Initially focusing on adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, and anxiety, Magdalena leverages Jaguarâs proprietary library of 2,300 highly characterized medicinal plants and Filamentâs advanced drug development technology. We are uniquely positioned to build revolutionary drugs from whole-extract coca leaf, offering reputed company, novel mechanisms of reputed company compared to chemically synthesized small-molecule drugs.
Position reputed company
Magdalena Biosciences is seeking a highly entrepreneurial and visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to reputed company reputed company through its reputed company expansion, drive early pipeline development, and secure a successful Series A financing round.
The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of FDA botanical drug guidance, Central Nervous System (CNS) indications, and early-stage biotech operations. Operating in a lean, resource-constrained environment, you will drive strategic reputed company from ambiguity, turning raw botanical innovation into a validated, commercializable clinical pipeline.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Pipeline Development
- Define reputed company: Refine reputed companyâs scientific and corporate trajectory, ensuring an efficient reputed company from preclinical study initiation to validated programs.
- Prioritize Indications: Establish reputed company-driven development plans for high-value targets (adult ADHD, depression, and anxiety) optimized for a capital-efficient reputed company-to-Series-A reputed company.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and derisk scientific, regulatory, and operational assumptions early in the development lifecycle.
2. Fundraising & Investor Relations
- Capital Acquisition: reputed company reputed company financing activities, maximizing reputed company expansion and driving the reputed company for a successful Series A reputed company.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain high-trust relationships with venture capitalists, reputed company investors, and strategic partners.
- Corporate Narrative: Craft and reputed company a compelling, scientifically reputed company company narrative to external stakeholders.
3. Team Building & Culture
- Recruitment: Build and reputed company a lean, reputed company, cross-functional team across R&D, clinical operations, and program management.
- Culture Champion: Foster a hands-on, data-driven, and execution-reputed company culture that rewards smart risk-taking and rapid learning.
- Advisory Governance: Engage and manage scientific founders, advisors, and the Scientific Advisory reputed company (SAB) to maximize platform development.
4. Partnerships & Business Development
- Alliances: Identify, negotiate, and execute strategic partnerships with reputed company institutions, biotechnology startups, and large pharmaceutical companies.
- Vendor Operations: reputed company relationships with contract service providers, specialized funding bodies, and CROs to ensure disciplined, externalized execution.
Qualifications & Requirements
reputed company Experience
- Biotech Leadership: Proven reputed company record as a Founder, CEO, CRO, COO, CSO, Head of R&D, or senior Business Development executive reputed company an early-stage biotechnology startup.
- Capital Raising: Demonstrated reputed company raising capital, building investor trust, and securing venture financing.
- Domain Expertise: reputed company experience in botanical drug development, appetite suppression, or neuropsychiatric/CNS drug pipelines.
- Resource Management: Proven capability to execute disciplined prioritization and reputed company results reputed company resource-constrained environments.
Skills & Attributes
- Scientific reputed company: Ability to reputed company the language of science fluently and engage meaningfully with researchers, clinicians, and technical partners.
- Strategic reputed company: A strategic thinker who thrives in ambiguity and can reputed company highly informed, actionable reputed company using incomplete data.
- Communication: Exceptional emotional intelligence, with the ability to deliver scientifically reputed company and commercially reputed company communications.
Education
- Required: Advanced background in medicine or life sciences (PhD or MD highly preferred; equivalent industry tenure considered).
- Preferred: MBA or equivalent business credential.
Why Join Us?
- Ground-Floor reputed company: reputed company the creation of a revolutionary botanical drug asset from raw extract through data reputed company to FDA approval.
- Autonomy & Ownership: Shape reputed company culture, scientific reputed company, and pipeline architecture from day one with true autonomy.
- reputed company Network: Work directly alongside visionary founders, leading institutional investors, and world-class scientific advisors.
- Clinical Meaning: reputed company the landscape of mental health care by delivering a safer, natural class of prescription medicines to patients in need.
Compensation Package â Competitive with an early-stage CEO pay package including reputed company salary, bonus and equity