Sr Strategy, Business Development, and Upstream Marketing Manager

About Synchron 

Synchron is a clinical-stage endovascular brain computer interface (BCI) company. Since 2012, the company has been developing a BCI platform that avoids the need for open brain surgery by using a minimally-invasive procedure. The Synchron Switch™ BCI received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2020, and is currently in human clinical trials in the US and Australia.

The company recently announced an oversubscribed $75 million Series C financing round led by ARCH Venture Partners, with participation from Gates Frontier, Bezos Expeditions and other top-tier investors. The funds will accelerate product development, facilitate commencement of a pivotal clinical trial, and advance Synchron towards a first-in-class BCI market approval for the treatment of paralysis.

The Synchron Switch™ brain computer interface is implanted in the blood vessel on the surface of the motor cortex of the brain via the jugular vein, through a minimally-invasive endovascular procedure. Once implanted, it is designed to detect and wirelessly transmit motor intent out of the brain, restoring a capability for severely paralyzed patients to control personal devices with hands-free point-and-click. Synchron is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary and rapidly growing team.

Join our mission of developing a first-in-class commercial BCI for more than 100 million people worldwide with upper limb impairment. Help people with previously untreatable conditions regain connection to the world.

As the first company to conduct clinical trials of a minimally invasive brain-computer interface, Synchron is in a unique position with the potential to restore human capabilities to people with paralysis. There have been 10 clinical trial participants implanted with the company’s technology. This is an opportunity to help shape next steps on the pathway to a commercial product as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary and growing team.

We are currently seeking to fill the position of Sr Strategy, Business Development, and Upstream Marketing Manager. This position is located in New York City, and ability to travel into Brooklyn is ideal. 

POSITION OVERVIEW: 

The Sr Strategy, Business Development, and Upstream Marketing Manager will be the marketing expert across a range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications for Synchron’s Stentrode.  They will have a strong understanding of upstream marketing, including competencies in: market assessment, competitive intelligence, requirements development, road mapping, and scenario planning to build platform strategies for long-term business value.   

The Sr Strategy, Business Development, and Upstream Marketing Manager will translate market and technical knowledge gained into tangible outputs including opportunity assessments, technology feasibility points, customer requirements, pre and post market claim strategies, and competitive analysis.  

In this role you will use your ability to think strategically and participate actively in decision analysis using internal and external data, problem formulation, meeting facilitation, data collection, financial model development and implementation, and presentations to senior management. 

Responsibilities:  

• Strategy Development and Execution 
  • Lead the business activities for the development of product line expansions, platform strategies and future vision, including needs finding, market sizing, and defining clinical value propositions. 
  • Act as a business partner to R&D as the core team member on platform expansion programs 
  • Collaborate with commercial and R&D teams to ensure a robust R&D pipeline, including roadmap ownership. 
  • Assist in development of portfolio management and business development tools for opportunity identification, opportunity evaluation, opportunity valuation, and opportunity prioritization. 
  • Develop detailed product proposals and product presentations.  
  • Develop strong “hand off” to Downstream marketing at the appropriate phase of product development   
• Market Knowledge and Development 
  • Develop market research and analysis for new technology / products, competing products and companies within target diagnostics, therapies, and clinical indications.  
  • Identify market opportunities and work closely with R&D and commercial team members to implement development strategies.  
  • With market research, competitive intelligence & partner engagements, keep abreast of key market drivers, trends and changes in the competitive & commercial landscape. 
  • Quantify tradeoffs in R&D, clinical, reimbursement, and regulatory strategies to recommend best paths to market