Program Leader

**About Aqemia** Our most advanced programs are currently in vivo optimization. **About the team you’ll join** Within Aqemia’s drug discovery portfolio team, Project leads play a critical role at Aqemia as they drive our drug discovery projects. Objective of such projects is to invent therapeutic molecules (hits / leads) against a given target protein and related disease, leveraging our unique technology combining new Physics and Machine Learning algorithms. Projects can be in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies to invent molecules for their targets, or within Aqemia internal project portfolio. A project is run by a core team - ie a drug hunter, a project leader, plus part of a Chemist and Biologist - and relies on the technology and ways of working developed by Aqemia platform. Projects typically last several months and a Project Leader can manage up to 2-3 projects at a time. **Your role as a project lead at Aqemia**: - Be the owner of project objectives and progress towards those objectives, including potential recommendation to stop the project if the progress is not good enough. - Clarify initial objectives, set up work plan and ways of working - Manage on a day-to-day basis the evolution of the project: challenge team members to reach project objectives in time and provide thought leadership - Manage the project team (3+ people), including giving regular feedback (good and bad) and coach the team to improve - Drive proactively the relationship with external partners (Pharma and/or CRO), at operational and management levels - Be the guardian of Aqemia’s ways of working in the team (how to run meetings, take decisions etc) - Beyond the project, coordinate proactively with other Project Leaders and Aqemia Technology platform to share best-practices and suggest further technological developments to grow Aqemia **The competencies we are looking for**: - You have a wealth of hands-on experience in project management: 4+ years of consulting experience and / or 6+ years of project management experience in a fast growing environment. - You have a scientific background (Masters degree in a science field), in any scientific discipline such as Engineering, Machine Learning, Chemistry, Biology. - You have objective-driven mindset and a high degree of organization, commitment and drive. Preferred mindset - You are eager to play an active role in contributing to Aqemia’s strategy to develop drugs for patients. - You are anxious to bring your wealth of knowledge and skills to the table to inspire and coach brilliant people from diverse backgrounds. - You are keen to solve tough problems on issues that truly matter, with a proactive and a can-do attitude. - You thrive on working collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment that keeps everyone on track. **Our recruitment process**: - 1 - Hiring Manager’s interview : you’ll meet directly with your future manager - 2 - Technical assessment of your skills - 3 - Cultural fit interview with our co-founder and COO Emmanuelle - 4 - Final interview with our co-founder and CEO Maximilien **About us** - We work for a mission: joining us means having your own impact on changing the way drugs are discovered, and helping to shape the direction of our fast-growing company and team._ \uD83D\uDE80** Mission-Driven**:We want to find many drugs and change drug discovery paradigm \uD83D\uDC8A** Fast-growing drug discovery pipe and proofs: Internal pipeline** with multiple programs against cancer for now, most advanced ones currently in vivo proof of concept/ patent stage + **Collaborations** with several top Pharma companies such as Sanofi, J&J (...) incl. 140M$ deal with Sanofi \uD83D\uDC65 **Interdisciplinary world-Class team**:built a team of 60 top tier people at the crossroads of tech and life sciences \uD83D\uDC64** Experienced Founders**:15+ years experience including resp. leading research at ENS, Oxford, Cambridge and career in strategy con>sulting at BCG. \uD83D\uDCAB **DeepTech Innovators**: Part of the French Tech 120 and France 2030, spinoff of Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS \uD83C\uDFE2 **Prime Location**: Paris (1 Bd Pasteur) with 2 days of remote per week. \uD83C\uDF0E** International environment**:Our working language is English. We offer a relocation package for those who wish to join us in France, which includes assistance in finding an apartment, help with all administrative tasks, and optional French lessons. \uD83D\uDCB8 **Fundraising**: $60M with European tech/deeptech funds - Elaia Partners (French leader deeptech VC), Eurazeo (largest European investment fund), Bpifrance Large Venture (largest French fund and fund of funds) and Wendel (PE tech fund).