Director/Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Director Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Director/Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry San Diego HQ, San Diego, California, United States JOB SUMMARY We seek an accomplished and creative medicinal chemistry leader with a proven track record of success in advancing drug discovery programs, setting scientific strategy, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver impact. Candidates should be motivated to work in an intensely collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-based setting. The role will entail leading drug discovery projects, coordinating a medicinal chemistry team with internal and external experimental capabilities, as well as proactively interfacing with diverse teams working on automated experimentation, ML-driven molecular generation, property predictions, and bioassay data generation. This position will be on-site at our San Diego Headquarters. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead a group of project scientists and drive molecular discovery efforts to deliver development and clinical candidates - Devise strategies to execute hit ID, identify lead molecules and optimize them for potency, selectivity, and ADME properties using multivariant SAR analysis and hypothesis driven design principles. - Act as a liaison between Iambic, CROs, and other external collaborators, including partnered research projects - Influence the prospective use of computational methods and leverage automated synthesis and high-throughput experimentation capabilities - Work closely with AI/ML teams to develop and implement relevant predictive models to aid in the design of new molecules - Contribute to platform development by collaborating with AI/ML and chemistry automation teams to enhance processes and accelerate the design-make-test (DMT) cycle. - Communicate project updates clearly and effectively to the broader team and key stakeholders - Work as a senior

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