Academic Partnerships Director (Neuroscience)

Location: Remote with periodic travel to customer meetings, academic conferences, and site visits; in-person hubs preferred in Boston and New York City.

Company

hirify.global develops at-home EEG and cardiopulmonary signal platforms for precision medicine, clinical development, and diagnostics for neurological, psychiatric, sleep, and central nervous system disorders.

What you will do

• Build and manage relationships with principal investigators, academic medical centers, core facilities, research consortia, grants administrators, research development offices, and technology transfer offices.
• Position Beacon’s Waveband EEG platform and analytics capabilities in grant-funded studies and support scientific and budgetary narratives during proposal development.
• Identify and develop opportunities for evidence generation, translational medicine, novel biomarkers, longitudinal datasets, and institution-wide or multi-site platform adoption.
• Own account-level pipeline generation, negotiation, closing, CRM activity tracking, and forecasting for academic and grant-funded opportunities.
• Represent Beacon at academic and scientific conferences and serve as a scientific thought partner to PIs and research teams.
• Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams; provide leadership with pipeline, win/loss, and market visibility; and manage the Academic strategy and pricing structure.

Requirements

• MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience.
• At least 3 years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role.
• Firsthand experience with academic research and grant funding environments through lab, postdoctoral, or research administration work.
• Strong scientific acumen and ability to work with scientific and commercial context; experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain is preferred.
• Ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs for delivery teams.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with PIs, research administrators, academic leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Track record of self-generated pipeline development, including creating demand with PIs, core facilities, and research consortia.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to manage long, unpredictable academic funding cycles with a disciplined pipeline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including proposal and presentation development for scientific and administrative audiences; ability to use CRM tools and experience contracting with academic institutions, Tech Transfer Offices, and Legal teams.
• Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings 1–3 times per quarter.
• Empathy for academic researchers, research administrators, coworkers, and patients.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting grant-funded research, core facilities, or academic medical centers.
• Experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with periodic travel and preferred in-person hubs in Boston and New York City.
• Compensation includes base salary, incentive compensation, equity, PTO, and other benefits.
• Culture emphasizes curiosity, simplicity, composability, self-service, empathy, and leading by example.
• Focus on diverse teams, scientific impact, and improving outcomes for patients.