Clinical Scientist

About the Company

Edgewise Therapeutics is focused on advancing novel, muscle-targeted therapeutics for serious cardiovascular and cardiometabolic conditions with significant unmet need. Leveraging expertise in muscle biology and small molecule drug development, we are building a cardiovascular pipeline that includes programs for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart failure, and other serious cardiovascular diseases. We’re building a passionate, experienced team committed to tackling complex scientific and clinical challenges and delivering meaningful outcomes for patients.

Responsibilities

• Represents clinical science in sub-teams, provides updates, and delivers presentations.
• Stays abreast of internal and external developments, trends, and other dynamics relevant to clinical science to maintain a fully current view and perspective of internal/external influences and/or implications for the program.
• Participates in competitive intelligence and/or other market/industry assessment activities and projects.
• Maintains scientific and clinical knowledge in the specific therapeutic area of assignment.
• Collaborates with a variety of internal and external partners and stakeholders, such as clinical investigators, clinicians, scientists, and KOLs.
• Makes important contributions to the drug development strategy and to the development of clinical documents (IB, protocols, etc.).
• Collaborates with clinical operations to develop agendas, materials, and other items for investigator meetings and other relevant meetings pertaining to assigned studies and programs.
• Conducts clinical review of study data, identifying and evaluating study data trends, outliers, and protocol deviations.
• Plays a key role in safety meetings; identifies and escalates any potential safety events.
• Delivers key presentations, both internally and externally, to convey the clinical science perspective and provide updates on strategies, plans, and other activities.
• Reads, understands, and complies with all workplace health and safety policies; safe work practices; and company policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

• PhD with cardiovascular expertise highly desired.
• 5 years' experience in late-stage clinical development.
• Proven interpersonal skills enabling leadership of a study team, while recognizing individual expert competencies, providing medical advice and evaluations, and exercising judgement in which issues need to be escalated immediately.
• Proactive problem solver with negotiation skills.
• Strong communication skills to ensure close collaboration with cross-functional team members so that study plans and status are transparent, and risks, issues, and results are clear to all involved parties.

Pay

Salary range: $135,000 - $175,000. Title and salary commensurate with experience.

Benefits

• Health benefits.
• Discretionary bonus plan.
• Stock option grants.
• Stock purchase plan.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.