Role Description Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), the Vice President, Clinical Development provides executive leadership for the company's clinical research and development activities, including Absci's proprietary biologics programs and partner-developed therapeutics leveraging our synthetic biology and AI-driven protein engineering platform. The Vice President is responsible for the strategic planning, execution, and oversight of clinical development strategies that support Absci's transition from platform provider to integrated biotherapeutics company. The Vice President, Clinical Development serves as a senior leader within Clinical Development, accountable for clinical trial design, execution, regulatory strategy, data integrity, and cross-functional alignment across internal programs and external partnerships. The role partners closely with our Protein Engineering, Bioinformatics, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Drug Safety teams to ensure clinical programs leverage Absci's differentiated platform capabilities while meeting regulatory requirements and medical standards. The Vice President, Clinical Development contributes to portfolio-level decision-making and represents Clinical Development in internal governance forums, external partnerships, and investor engagements. Responsibilities - Clinical Strategy & Execution: - Provide executive both senior-level oversight and hands-on leadership for the design, planning, and execution of clinical development programs for Absci’s proprietary therapeutic candidates and select partner-developed programs utilizing our platform. - Lead the development and implementation of clinical development plans aligned with Absci's product strategy, registration pathways, and platform-enabled lifecycle management objectives. - Ensure high-quality execution of clinical trials, including protocol development, data collection, analysis, and reporting in compliance with GCP, regulatory, and medical standards. - Oversee preparation and review of key clinical documents, including protocols, Investigator's Brochures, clinical study reports, and regulatory submission materials. - Translate Absci's platform-derived insights (protein engineering, sequence, design data) into clinical development strategy and biomarker/pharmacology rationale. - Organizational & Cross-Functional Leadership: - Serve as a senior Clinical Development representative on cross-functional project teams, governance committees, and internal review bodies. - Partner with Clinical Operations and external CROs to ensure efficient trial execution, appropriate medical monitoring, and adherence to safety and quality standards. - Together with Clinical Operations, build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including investigators, site staff and key thought leaders. - Collaborate with Drug Safety to ensure ongoing evaluation of safety data and integration of pharmacovigilance considerations into clinical programs. - Work closely with Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics internal and external cross-functional teams to ensure clinical development strategy leverages platform-generated molecular and functional insights. - Contribute to enterprise decision-making through participation in portfolio reviews, partnership evaluations, investment discussions, and development governance forums. - Responsible for effectively communicating program goals, strategies, plans, issues and risks with team members, department heads, review boards, and the executive leadership team. - Regulatory & Partnership Engagement: - Support interactions with global Health Authorities by contributing to briefing packages, responses, and strategic positioning for assigned programs. - Lead clinical development due diligence and strategy for potential in-licensing, partnering, or acquisition opportunities that would utilize Absci's platform. - Engage with external experts, investigators, key opinion leaders, and advisory boards to inform clinical strategy and execution. - Represent Absci's clinical development capabilities to existing and potential pharmaceutical and biotech partners evaluating platform collaborations. - Play a leadership role in steering committee and independent data monitoring committee presentations and interactions. - Strategic Contribution: - Translate emerging clinical and platform-generated data into actionable insights to inform development decisions and portfolio strategy. - Support the CMO in shaping long-term clinical development capabilities, processes, and talent as Absci expands its proprietary pipeline. - Contribute to external visibility and thought leadership through presentations and publications demonstrating the clinical application of Absci's synthetic biology Platform. Qualifications - Bring knowledge and experience leading or supporting interactions with global Health Authorities and contributing to regulatory strategy. - Demonstrate ability to evaluate, interpret, and communicate complex scientific and clinical data to inform development and portfolio decisions. - Bring thorough knowledge of Good Clinical Practice, statistics, and clinical trial design. - Working understanding of synthetic biology, protein engineering, bioinformatics, or platform-driven drug development approaches. - Proven executive-level leader with experience driving clinical development strategies and delivering high-quality outcomes across multiple stakeholders. - Significant experience working cross-functionally within a matrixed organization and establishing productive scientific partnerships with external experts and collaborators. - Excellent executive communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders. - Ability to communicate complex platform science and technical capabilities to non-scientific audiences (investors, partners, board). - Ability to travel domestically and internationally (up to 25 to 30%). Education & Experience - M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degree; advanced knowledge in immunology, protein therapeutics, oncology, or related areas relevant to Absci's focus areas. - 8+ years of experience in clinical research including the design and execution of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) within a pharmaceutical or biotech environment; 5+ years leadership experience. - Minimum of 8 years of experience in clinical research or drug development (Phase 1 through 3) in an academic, biotech, or industry environment; ≥6 years in a biotech/pharmaceutical setting. - Preferred experience with biologics (monoclonal antibodies, protein therapeutics, cell therapy) and/or platform-based drug development models. - Experience with clinical development in smaller biotech settings and managing partnerships or in-licensed programs. Benefits - The salary range for this position is $355K - 390K/year. - Absci offers highly competitive salaries and benefits, including: - Medical, dental, vision insurance - Unlimited vacation - Parental leave - Employee assistance program - Voluntary life and disability insurance - Annual bonus potential - 401(k) with a generous company match

VP, Experience Location: Canada / United States Full-Time Permanent /Remote ABOUT APPLY APPLY is the Agentic Customer Experience (ACx) partner for the world's most ambitious consumer and entertainment brands. We bring together deep domain expertise across Retail, CPG, Sports, and Media with AI-native delivery capability, designing and delivering agentic solutions that turn CX vision into commercial reality. We are the partner of choice for brands like Arc'teryx, NFL, Lululemon, and Kraft Heinz.  LOCATION: APPLY is hybrid/remote friendly. The preferred candidate should be based in North America and able to collaborate with teams across ET, PT and GMT time zones. THE ROLE: Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Development Build an elite, future-ready team through mentorship, smart hiring, and clear standards. - Develop Senior Leaders: Direct and develop the department’s senior leaders, building their capacity to coach, set standards, and drive performance across their respective teams. - Cultivate High-Performance Culture: Foster a culture that values both craftsmanship and velocity - one where practitioners hold themselves to a high bar, push creative boundaries, collaborate fluidly, and engage clients with confidence and authority. - Strategic Hiring: Champion intentional hiring that strengthens the team's depth, diversity of thinking, and Agentic fluency, identifying and closing capability gaps proactively. - Targeted Upskilling: Partner with People Leaders to commission targeted training programs, with immediate priority areas including Accessibility, Annotations, Component Libraries, and Agentic AI literacy. - Performance Tracking: Partner with the PMO and POPS to establish meaningful performance metrics that track individual and team contributions, creating clear paths for recognition, development, and remediation. AI & Process Transformation Defining how the Experience function works in the age of Agentic AI. - AI Transformation Roadmap: Guide Apply’s AI transformation roadmap (define the ongoing evolution) for the Experience function. Lead structured capability audits and execute plans to close gaps with measurable improvements in usage, certification, and client application.  - Workflow Automation: Direct Experience Design and Product Leaders to evaluate day-to-day tools and workflows, identifying automation opportunities and eliminating low-value effort. - Standardize Frameworks: Establish standardized processes and refined deliverable frameworks for repeatable client needs: - Experience Design: Information Architecture, Wireframing, CMS Design, Brand Design, Page Design, Content Audits & Strategy, Accessibility, Design Systems, Technical Hand-offs etc. - Product: Site Audits, Personas, User Journeys, Roadmaps, PRDs, Ticket Creation, and Acceptance Criteria. - Knowledge Sharing: Feed updates back to the overarching delivery process, ensuring Experience’s contributions remain accurate, current, and operationally useful as practices evolve. Excellence & Innovation Setting the bar and building the conditions for the team to clear it. - Brand Consistency: Drive the adoption of templates and tooling such as Claude Design to enable more consistent, higher-quality outputs at scale across all client deliverables, pitch materials, and internal documentation. - Creative Ambition: Champion a culture where AI handles the repetitive and routine so the team can focus their energy on capturing each client's brand in ways that are unique, resonant, and commercially differentiated. - Waste Reduction: Drive the Product team to eliminate upfront planning pain points through cross-checks that ensure complete discovery, requirements integrity, protected margins, and solutions that balance analytical rigour with innovation. - Award-Worthy Work: Pursue industry-recognized work as a leading indicator that Apply's Experience function is producing ACx work that moves people and businesses. Business Outcomes & Accountability Running the practice as a business, with rigour, data, and commercial intent. - Financial Ownership: Own the Experience function's budget, utilization, and financial contribution to the organization. Set aggressive targets, monitor performance, and hold the team accountable. - Utilization Frameworks: Partner with PMO  to extend Agile Day reporting and leverage AI Tooling to track utilization, analyze trends by project type, and systematically learn from both successes and shortfalls. - Monetize Specialized Offerings: Determine which elements warrant repackaging as separately scoped and priced offerings (e.g., differentiated accessibility tiers, content strategy, translation/localization management, content authoring, persona development, and extended roadmapping). - Data-Driven Performance: Use operational performance data to drive decisions regarding targeted training, process redesign, or adjustments to how services are sold. Thought Leadership & Strategy Advancing Apply’s ACx vision internally, with clients, and in the market. - Champion the ACx Vision: Co-own Apply’s Agentic Customer Experience (ACx) narrative alongside our other thought leaders, contributing a sharp, credible point of view on where agentic AI is taking the discipline of experience design and product strategy. Surface emerging patterns, pressure-test new ideas, and ensure the Experience function’s perspective is shaping — not just responding to — Apply’s strategic direction. - External Market Presence: Represent Apply’s ACx perspective at industry events, in published content, and in peer forums — building Apply’s reputation as a firm that doesn’t just follow the shift to agentic AI but helps define what great looks like within it. - Client-Facing Content & Narrative Contribution: Partner with Marketing and Growth to translate the team’s best work and thinking into case studies, frameworks, and POVs that build Apply’s credibility in the ACx space. Bring a current, well-reasoned point of view into senior client conversations — on agentic AI, the future of experience design, and what separates durable digital experiences from short-term ones — elevating Apply’s positioning from delivery partner to trusted advisor. Business Development & Client Partnership Acting as the senior face of Experience: internally, with clients, and in new business. - Executive Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to Apply's senior leadership — and a credible voice externally — on experience quality, product strategy, team capability, and where agentic AI is reshaping the competitive landscape. - Senior Client Partnership: Co-own senior client relationships alongside Client Services, acting as a strategic partner who brings depth, credibility, and continuity to complex brand and product conversations. - Business Development: Active partner to Growth teams on pitches, helping scope and price Experience and Product services, and identifying opportunities to develop new service offerings. - Commercial Pricing & Scoping: Lead data-dependent commercial reviews of how services are scoped to identify where the team is underestimating effort. - Workflow Optimization: Partner with Growth, Technology (including QA), and Project Management to improve cross-functional workflows, refine estimation standards, and build infrastructure to compare estimates against actuals. - Sales Enablement: Build and maintain briefing guides and enablement materials that allow Growth teams to scope and close Experience and Product work with greater accuracy and confidence. Qualifications Experience & Leadership - 12+ years in UX, product management, and experience design disciplines, with significant time spent in a senior leadership role at a digital consultancy, agency, or product-led organization. - 5+ years leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams of 15+ people, spanning both creative and product functions. - Demonstrated track record of practice transformation, building processes, standards, and cultures that measurably improve both output quality and team health. - Track record of leading complex, large-scale brand, experience, and technology projects for enterprise and brand-name clients. - Proven experience managing and developing senior leaders and strong principal contributors. Commercial & Strategic Acumen - Proven ability to own senior client relationships, building trust, navigating complexity, and expanding engagements over time. - Experience actively contributing to business development (pitching, scoping, and pricing experience/product services in a consulting context). - Strong financial literacy: Comfortable with budget ownership, utilization modeling, margin analysis, and pricing strategy. - Experience identifying under-monetized services or developing entirely new products and services. Technology & AI Fluency - Demonstrated ability to lead teams through technology transitions with clarity, purpose, and genuine enthusiasm. - Experience with Agentic AI tools and workflows, or a well-documented history of rapidly mastering and applying emerging technologies in a professional context. - A credible, current point of view on how Agentic AI changes the practice of experience design, product strategy, and the economics of delivery. Communication & Ways of Working - Exceptional communicator: Equally effective presenting to a C-suite executive, coaching a junior designer, or navigating a difficult cross-functional conversation. - A leadership style that combines high standards with genuine investment in people's growth (demanding but developmental). - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and under pressure; able to create structure where none exists. - Deep familiarity with Agile and iterative delivery models, and experience partnering with PMO functions to optimize tracking. - A demonstrated history of external thought leadership — speaking, writing, or publishing — with a perspective on agentic AI and the future of experience design that is credible, current, and distinctly their own. Nice to Have - Familiarity with agentic  delivery methodology, or experience in a similar consulting environment. I.e. Experience or familiarity with BMAD methodology or similar AI-augmented product discovery and requirements frameworks. - Depth in one or more of: standard product management practices or design system practices. LIFE AT APPLY People are at the core of everything we do at APPLY. We provide you with modern tools, systems and approaches, value your time, safety, and health, and strive to build a work community where you can thrive and grow. Here are a few benefits we offer to support you: Agentic Delivery: Our people work in a modern way to deliver client outcomes. Broaden your skills on a range of engagements with international brands that have a global impact. An inclusive and safe environment: We’re truly committed to building a culture where you are celebrated and everyone feels welcome and safe. AI & Strategic Upskilling: Accelerate your professional growth with generous training budgets and mentorship, with a specific focus on Agentic AI expertise and the critical human skills required for the future of work. Generous vacation policy: Work-life balance is key to our team’s success, so we offer flexible personal time off (PTO); allowing ample time away from work to promote overall well-being. Customizable benefits: Tailor your extended health and dental plan to your needs, priorities, and preferences. Flexible work arrangements: We work in a variety of ways, from remote, to in-office, to a blend of both. APPLY is a safe, respectful, and inclusive community where differences are celebrated. We are committed to equal opportunity and fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. Learn more in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) section. For recruitment accommodations, please email careers@applydigital.com. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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