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Executive Director, Clinical Development
Avidity BiosciencesSan Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Aug 2024
💰 $380,000/yr($350,000/yr – $380,000/yr)
About the role
Strive to Bring a Profound Difference to our PatientsAt Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people’s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients. Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn.
The Opportunity
This position will serve as the Clinical Development Lead for one or more of Avidity’s clinical programs. The role will be responsible for leading the design and successful implementation of clinical trials, will be a key member on the program core team, and will lead the cross-functional development subteam. Responsibilities include driving development of strategies to identify, monitor and mitigate program level issues and risks that affect execution of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP) and for ensuring timely communication to the program team and management. The Clinical Development Lead will be responsible for leading the design of clinical trials and development of protocols to meet the CDP objectives and for contributing to key regulatory documents and study level documents including the review and dissemination of study results and related publications.What You Will Contribute
- Work with key internal and external stakeholders to lead the design and implementation of the CDP and the design of clinical trials to meet the objectives of the CDP
- Role will partner closely with Global Program Head and will be a member of core team responsible for overall program oversight including strategy, launch readiness and life cycle management
- Lead the cross-functional development subteam implementing and overseeing the clinical trials; develop strategies to identify, monitor and resolve program issues and risks
- Play a key role in communicating across lines and functions to facilitate timely and effective decision-making and to identify key q
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