Kriya Therapeutics, Inc.
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Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Development (Contract)
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The Role
Supports corporate strategy and business development for a clinical-stage biotech, including financing strategy, valuation and scenario modeling, partnership and licensing evaluations, market intelligence, due diligence, investor materials, and corporate narrative development. The role requires translating scientific and clinical progress into evidence-based strategic recommendations while operating independently in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Kriya is a biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to develop life-changing gene therapies for diseases affecting millions of patients around the world.
We leverage our proprietary computational engine, in-house manufacturing infrastructure, and integrated design platform to engineer technologies and therapeutics with the potential to transform the treatment of a broad universe of diseases of high unmet need, with a focus on metabolic disorders, neurology, and ophthalmology.
We are proud to have been named Triangle Business Journal’s Life Sciences 2024 “Best Private Company to Work For,” recognized by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers of 2024,” and honored as one of BioSpace’s “2025 Best Places to Work.”
We leverage our proprietary computational engine, in-house manufacturing infrastructure, and integrated design platform to engineer technologies and therapeutics with the potential to transform the treatment of a broad universe of diseases of high unmet need, with a focus on metabolic disorders, neurology, and ophthalmology.
We are proud to have been named Triangle Business Journal’s Life Sciences 2024 “Best Private Company to Work For,” recognized by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers of 2024,” and honored as one of BioSpace’s “2025 Best Places to Work.”
Role Overview
The Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Development Contractor is a senior analytical and strategic partner to the CFO / Head of Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Finance, and Communications. Corporate Strategy & Business Development’s role is to build strategic optionality for accessing capital across dilutive equity, non-dilutive business development, and IP or platform monetization pathways. This role brings rigorous scientific and financial analysis, structured but flexible problem solving, and hands-on execution to the workstreams that will enable Kriya to be well-positioned for continued progress and growth.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design and execution of Kriya's multi-path capital access strategy, including comparable company analysis, sell-side analyst mapping, and investor narrative infrastructure tied to Kriya's core value-creation pillars (manufacturing, data, people) that deliver durable medicines.
- Build and maintain financing scenario and valuation analyses (rNPV analyses, go/no-go decision gates, capital needs by program) that hold up to sophisticated-investor scrutiny.
- Evaluate non-dilutive business development opportunities — outlicensing, partnership, and technical-services / IP-monetization structures — including deal-term benchmarking, structural risk assessment, and comparable-transaction research.
- Support other team members in completion of market intelligence and landscape analysis across relevant indications, modalities, mechanisms, and comparable companies, with explicit sourcing and confidence-level tagging for every claim.
- Support due diligence, data-room preparation, and management presentations for prospective investors, banking partners, and institutional collaborators (e.g., academic medical center partnerships).
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance, BD, Communications, and clinical/program teams to translate scientific and clinical progress into a coherent, evidence-based corporate narrative.
- Apply a consistent data-integrity standard: distinguish sourced fact from internal characterization from hypothesis, and flag discrepancies or gaps explicitly rather than smoothing over them.
- Operate independently against ambiguous, fast-moving priorities typical of a pre-financing clinical-stage biotech, escalating judgment calls rather than defaulting to consensus.
Experience & Skills and Work Environment
Experience & Skills
- Advanced science degree required (PhD, MS, MD or equivalent; equivalent roles with directly relevant experience will be considered).
- 3 to 5 years in management consulting background (top-tier or boutique strategy/life-sciences consulting) or comparable experience in biotech corporate strategy, corporate development, investment banking, or equity research.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems into clear analytical frameworks, and to build and defend financial or scientific analysis under scrutiny.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate complex clinical/scientific material into concise, decision-ready materials for executive and investor audiences.
- Comfort working with primary sources (SEC filings, clinical trial data, scientific literature, company disclosures) and citing them explicitly; discomfort with unsourced or confident-sounding-but-unverified claims.
- Prior exposure to gene therapy, cell therapy, or a related complex biotech modality is a plus; demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in a new scientific area is required.
- Comfortable operating in a lean, resource-constrained, fast-paced environment as a fractional / part-time contributor with the expectation of significant autonomy.
- Strong comfort in leveraging and incorporate large data set analytics and intelligent LLM tools such as Claude into workflows and process.
Work Environment
- Local to San Francisco Bay Area with presence in Palo Alto office at least once a week.
- Standard office physical demands (extended periods of sitting, computer use).
Life at Kriya
Discover True Collaborative Teamwork
We have an ambitious set of goals, but our confidence – and our inspiration – stems from our people. From California to North Carolina, our teammates bring a spirit of Collaboration, Leadership, and Innovation to their work every day.
We’re always looking for teammates with the drive and energy to help us grow. If you want to be a part of a company with an entrepreneurial culture, a bold vision, and a meaningful purpose, join us.
We have an ambitious set of goals, but our confidence – and our inspiration – stems from our people. From California to North Carolina, our teammates bring a spirit of Collaboration, Leadership, and Innovation to their work every day.
We’re always looking for teammates with the drive and energy to help us grow. If you want to be a part of a company with an entrepreneurial culture, a bold vision, and a meaningful purpose, join us.
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Skills Required
- Advanced science degree such as PhD, MS, MD, or equivalent directly relevant experience
- 3 to 5 years of management consulting experience or comparable biotech corporate strategy, corporate development, investment banking, or equity research experience
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems into analytical frameworks and build defensible financial or scientific analyses
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex clinical or scientific material for executive and investor audiences
- Experience working with primary sources such as SEC filings, clinical trial data, scientific literature, and company disclosures
- Ability to distinguish sourced facts, internal characterizations, and hypotheses while identifying discrepancies or gaps
- Ability to operate autonomously in a lean, fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
- Ability to use large-dataset analytics and intelligent LLM tools such as Claude
- Prior exposure to gene therapy, cell therapy, or a related complex biotech modality
- Ability to ramp quickly in a new scientific area
- Local residence in the San Francisco Bay Area and availability to work from the Palo Alto office at least once weekly
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The Company
What We Do
Kriya Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and manufacturing transformative, one-time gene therapies to address chronic diseases affecting millions of people worldwide. With operations in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Silicon Valley, California, Kriya leverages an innovative platform for research, development, and manufacturing to revolutionize medicine and eliminate the burden of disease, aiming to make life-changing therapies accessible to all in need.
