Principal

Northpond Ventures
Northpond Ventures is a science-driven venture capital firm. Northpond partners with leading scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs to develop and empower breakthrough science and technology that transforms humanity. The firm has over $1 billion in committed capital and offices in San Francisco, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Bethesda, Maryland. Northpond was founded with a mission to build a better tomorrow. In addition, Northpond Labs is the firm’s research and development-focused affiliate, collaborating with universities, research centers, and scientists around the world to fund translational research that is poised to be the foundation of new ventures and scientific discovery. Since its inception in 2018, Northpond Ventures has served as the lead investor in a majority of over 50 deals within diagnostics, life science tools, digital health, and biotechnologies. Northpond investments include 908 Devices (NASDAQ: MASS), Codex DNA (NASDAQ: DNAY), Emulate, Encodia, Inflammatix, IsoPlexis, Scipr Medicine, Ultivue, Vigil, Vizgen, and more.

Northpond Ventures is seeking Principals to support either our Life Science Tools and Diagnostics team, Digital Health team, or Biotherapeutics team. Key aspects of the role include:

  • Origination & Sourcing: Advanced level of knowledge/capabilities in Sector trends, networking, lead generation, sector expertise, cross-sector fluency; strong external reputation in the sector
  • Diligence: Advanced level of knowledge/capabilities in financial modeling, forecasting, challenging assumptions
  • Deal Process Management: Advanced level of experience leading deal teams in full lifecycle deal process, providing significant and insightful contributions to deal term negotiations, exercising keen business judgment; some experience in asset disposition/exits is advantageous

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

    • Approximately 8+ years post grad experience
    • 5 years in Venture Capital, or a combination of experience in VC, industry-related organizations (e.g., biotech), and investment banking
    • Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in science or finance, from a top tier academic institution
    • Advanced degree strongly preferred, ideally in a field of science, or other advanced degree in science or business (PhD, MBA)
    • Strong communication skills to engage with investors, subject matter experts, etc. to extract meaningful information for purposes of due diligence
    • Recognized expertise and credibility in the sector; evidence of effective engagement with investors, ability to respond to questions, address concerns
    • Proven ability to lead teams and develop others
  • To apply, send your CV to careers@npv.vc and indicate the title of the job in the subject line.
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