Market Product Lead

Basecamp Research • Boston, MA

15h • $160,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Basecamp Research is hiring a Market Product Lead to own its peptide and protein platform as a commercial product. The role is responsible for market analysis, target product profiles, decisions about what to build and license, go-to-market strategy, and partner-facing positioning. It bridges model and science teams with business development, ensuring the peptide portfolio has a defined buyer, a defensible claim, and a credible price.

The role leads market and competitive intelligence, programme definition, productization and roadmap, and partner engagement. It works with scientific, business development, and legal colleagues to define product offerings, support commercial partnerships and revenue generation, prepare evidence-based partner materials, and address intellectual property strategy and freedom-to-operate considerations. The position includes travel to represent Basecamp Research at client and industry meetings.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with substantial exposure to peptide, protein, or biologics therapeutics in discovery, development, product strategy, or business development.
• Demonstrable command of peptide drug-development challenges, including proteolytic stability, oral and systemic exposure, receptor selectivity and off-target risk, immunogenicity, formulation, manufacturability, and related trade-offs.
• Track record of shaping and closing commercial partnerships, licensing agreements, or platform deals with pharmaceutical companies, or owning commercial strategy for a platform sold into pharmaceutical R&D.
• Ability to author target product profiles, competitive assessments, and commercial cases that senior stakeholders act on.
• Ability to hold substantive technical discussions with computational and experimental scientists and commercial discussions with pharmaceutical platform-technology vice-presidents without over-claiming.
• Comfort operating with incomplete evidence and discipline in distinguishing validated findings from promising results and aspirations.
• Excellent written English.
• Willingness to travel, including to represent Basecamp Research at client and industry meetings.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in metabolic disease, immunology, anti-infectives, or another therapeutic area with an active peptide pipeline.
• Familiarity with macrocyclic peptides, peptidomimetics, non-canonical amino acids, conjugation strategies, or oral delivery technologies.
• Direct experience with AI-enabled drug discovery platforms, on either the platform side or the pharmaceutical side of a partnership.
• A postgraduate degree in a life science, chemistry, or a related business area, or equivalent depth acquired in industry.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an analysis of the peptide and protein therapeutics landscape by segment, indication, modality, mechanism trends, and delivery technologies.
• Track competitor activity across AI-enabled discovery platforms, peptide- and protein-focused biotechs, screening technology providers, and pharmaceutical internal capabilities; translate findings into roadmap and go-to-market implications.
• Maintain a current map of deal structures, comparable agreements, and valuation benchmarks for platform licensing and co-development, and advise on agreement positioning.
• Conduct structured voice-of-customer research with pharmaceutical R&D leaders and convert findings into prioritised, written requirements.
• Author and defend target product profiles for internal programmes, defining differentiated market properties and evidence needs.
• Translate partner-supplied target product profiles into feasible research plans with scientific leadership, including candid assessments of platform capabilities and limitations.
• Define stage gates and go/no-go criteria for peptide programmes and recommend when a programme should stop.
• Determine which platform capabilities become licensable products and in what sequence, balancing near-term revenue with durable differentiation.
• Own the end-to-end peptide product roadmap, agree priorities with model, data, and science teams, and manage scope.
• Define packaging and commercial models, including access arrangements, bespoke model fine-tuning on partner data, co-development structures, and asset-level licensing.
• Specify the partner data needed to improve the platform and turn broad collaboration offers into precise written requests.
• Support partner engagement and revenue generation in collaboration with the Business Development team.
• Develop peptide positioning and supporting materials, including capability maps, benchmark summaries, validation packages, and competitive comparisons.
• Set and enforce standards for accurate, consistent, appropriately caveated external claims about validation, benchmarks, and limitations.
• Support business development through partner meetings, scientific exchanges, conferences, and diligence processes, bridging technical and commercial discussions.
• Work with scientific and legal colleagues on intellectual property strategy, freedom-to-operate considerations, and novelty positioning for designed molecules.
• Travel to represent Basecamp Research at client and industry meetings.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary benchmarked against London and Boston market rates; the band is shared at the first conversation.
• Meaningful equity in a company backed by $140M from investors including NVIDIA.
• Discretionary performance bonus.
• Private medical and dental cover, life assurance, and enhanced pension contributions.
• 33 days of annual leave inclusive of public holidays, plus a company shutdown between Christmas and New Year.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Flexible and hybrid working, with support for part-time or compressed arrangements where the role allows.
• Annual budget for conferences, training, and professional membership, plus support for continued publication where appropriate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed