Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemsitry

Position Description:
Vir Biotechnology is a commercial-stage immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to treat and prevent serious infectious diseases. Vir has assembled four technology platforms that are designed to stimulate and enhance the immune system by exploiting critical observations of natural immune processes. Its current development pipeline consists of product candidates targeting COVID-19, hepatitis B virus, influenza A and human immunodeficiency virus.
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Job Summary:
Vir Bio is seeking an experienced medicinal chemist to join our innovative drug discovery efforts. The successful candidate will contribute to all phases of drug discovery and play a leading role in our medicinal chemistry efforts. Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in both hit-to-lead and lead optimization strategies. The candidate should have a proven track record of leading medicinal chemistry teams with demonstrated success in small molecule drug discovery lead optimization.
Responsibilities:

• Design and execute medicinal chemistry strategies to design, synthesize, and progress lead compounds
• Direct internal and outsourced chemistry efforts
• Use lead optimization expertise to drive progression of drug discovery projects
• Advance drug discovery initiatives through cross functional collaborations with internal and external partners (including pharmacology, functional genomics, machine learning, and DMPK)
• Provide strategic, scientific, and managerial leadership for junior chemists
• Contribute to the overall scientific strategy and success of Vir Research

Qualifications:

• PhD in Organic or Medicinal Chemistry with 4+ years industrial experience in medicinal chemistry
• Strong proficiency in fundamental aspects of small molecule lead optimization and demonstrated ability to advance drug discovery projects
• High level of creativity and productivity in chemical synthesis with strong synthetic problem-solving skills, synthetic methods, and reaction mechanisms
• Breadth of experience collaborating and utilizing principles of DMPK, pharmacology, and structure-based drug design in lead optimization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively with Vir scientific leadership

Vir's compensation and benefits are aligned with the current market and commensurate with the person's experience and qualifications. All full-time employees receive a package that includes: compensation, bonus and equity as well as many other Vir benefits and perks such as: health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance benefits, non-accrual paid time off, one Friday a month paid-time off, company shut down for holidays, commuter benefits, child care reimbursement, education reimbursement, 401K match and lunch for all lab essential personnel!
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