Beacon Biosignals - Academic Partnerships Director

• MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience. • 3+ years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role, ideally supporting grant-funded research, core facilities, or academic medical centers. • Firsthand familiarity with the academic research and grant funding environment, gained through prior lab, postdoctoral, or research administration experience. • Strong scientific acumen, with experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain preferred. • Demonstrated ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs for delivery teams • Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with PIs, research administrators, and academic leadership. • A track record of self-generated pipeline, managing not only inbound interest but also building new interest with PIs, core facilities, and consortium relationships through creative demand generation that become revenue generating partnerships • Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable navigating the long and often unpredictable timelines of academic funding cycles while managing a disciplined pipeline. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build compelling proposal language and presentations for scientific and administrative audiences. • Ability to use CRM tools to track accounts and opportunities. • Experience contracting with academic institutions, including Tech Transfer Offices and Legal teams. • Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings, 1-3 times per quarter. • Empathy for all stakeholders, including academic researchers, research administrators, co-workers, and most of all patients. • The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills, and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes incentive compensation, equity, PTO, and other benefits. • At Beacon, we’ve found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we’re always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and, most of all, a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.