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# Academic Partnerships Director at Beacon Biosignals

- **Company:** Beacon Biosignals
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals/jobs/4459526009

## Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a scientifically and clinically credentialed, relationship-driven Academic Partnerships Director to grow adoption of the Beacon Platform, including the research use of its medical devices, within academic and research institutions. This role will build and manage relationships with principal investigators (PIs), academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia whose studies in neurology, psychiatry, and sleep are funded through NIH, NSF, foundation, and other grant mechanisms. The role will identify, cultivate, and secure partnership opportunities to leverage Beacon’s physiology evidence generation infrastructure for labs studying the brain, build evidence for translational medicine applications, develop novel biomarkers, generate longitudinal data sets, or other use cases, in the context of grant-funded or foundation-sponsored research from early proposal development through study execution.

This role will start as a senior independent contributor in the Life Sciences Commercial organization, reporting directly to the President of Life Sciences and Chief Business Officer. The position could evolve over time to incorporate additional responsibilities in academic alliance management and team leadership as Beacon’s academic and grant-funded research portfolio priorities grow.

This is a remote position with periodic travel to customer meetings, academic conferences, and site visits. In-person hubs are preferred in Boston and New York City.

What success looks like:

- Build and manage a portfolio of relationships with PIs, academic medical centers, core facilities, and research consortia pursuing NIH, NSF, foundation, and other grant-funded studies in neurology, psychiatry, and sleep-related disorders.
- Partner with PIs during proposal development to position Beacon’s Waveband EEG platform and analytics capabilities as the preferred solution for grant-funded studies, and support the scientific and budgetary narrative in the grant-writing phase.
- Apply a working command of U.S. academic grant funding cycles and mechanisms (e.g., R01, R21, U01, SBIR/STTR, foundation and philanthropic grants) as well as EU and other international regulatory frameworks relevant to academic research, and use that knowledge to time outreach and shape proposals.
- Grow and steward relationships with academic core facilities and research consortia, identifying opportunities for institution-wide or multi-site adoption of Beacon’s platform.
- Own account-level pipeline generation, negotiation, and closing for academic and grant-funded opportunities, and record activity and forecasts in Beacon’s CRM.
- Represent Beacon at relevant academic and scientific conferences (e.g., SLEEP, SfN, ACNP, ASSC) and build a network among grants administrators, research development offices, and technology transfer offices.
- Serve as a credible scientific thought partner to PIs and research teams, translating Beacon’s technology and data assets into clear value for specific study designs and aims.
- Collaborate with Program Management, Clinical Operations, Marketing, and Scientific teams to ensure academic partnerships are scoped accurately and delivered successfully.
- Provide leadership with visibility into pipeline health, win/loss patterns, and emerging opportunities across the academic and grant-funded segment.
- Manage and extend the Academic strategy, including pricing structure, to align to the priorities of academic partners and Beacon

What you will bring:

- MD with training in psychiatry or neurology, or PhD in neuroscience.
- 3+ years of experience in business development, academic partnerships, alliance management, or a related commercial role, ideally supporting grant-funded research, core facilities, or academic medical centers.
- Firsthand familiarity with the academic research and grant funding environment, gained through prior lab, postdoctoral, or research administration experience.
- Strong scientific acumen, with experience in neuroscience, sleep science, or a related clinical research domain preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic and commercial context into actionable operational briefs for delivery teams
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with PIs, research administrators, and academic leadership.
- A track record of self-generated pipeline, managing not only inbound interest but also building new interest with PIs, core facilities, and consortium relationships through creative demand generation that become revenue generating partnerships
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable navigating the long and often unpredictable timelines of academic funding cycles while managing a disciplined pipeline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build compelling proposal language and presentations for scientific and administrative audiences.
- Ability to use CRM tools to track accounts and opportunities.
- Experience contracting with academic institutions, including Tech Transfer Offices and Legal teams.
- Willingness to travel for conferences, site visits, and internal meetings, 1-3 times per quarter.
- Empathy for all stakeholders, including academic researchers, research administrators, co-workers, and most of all patients.

The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills, and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes incentive compensation, equity, PTO, and other benefits.

At Beacon, we’ve found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we’re always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and, most of all, a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.

## About Beacon Biosignals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beacon Biosignals is an AI-driven precision medicine platform that collects, integrates, and analyzes EEG data to accelerate drug development and power at-home sleep diagnostics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – over $97 M raised as of April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with additional offices in Paris, New York, Cleveland, and remote)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD (CTO & Co‑Founder); additional co‑founders not fully disclosed in available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Neuroscience / Digital Health / AI‑powered diagnostics and clinical‑trial services.
- **Target customers**: Biopharmaceutical companies (B2B) for clinical‑trial support; sleep physicians, neurologists, and primary‑care providers for at‑home sleep testing (B2B diagnostics).
- **Mission**: “To unlock the power of brain data to transform how we diagnose, treat, and understand neurological and psychiatric conditions.”

## Products & Services
- **Waveband EEG Headband**: FDA 510(k)‑cleared, wireless headband (formerly Dreem 3S) that collects clinical‑grade sleep‑staging data. Designed for at‑home use in both clinical trials and clinical practice. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon Datastore**: Cloud‑based storage and analysis platform for biosignal data. Supports version‑controlled, reproducible analyses and integrates with the rest of Beacon’s products. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Clinical Study Operations**: End‑to‑end support for biopharma trials, including device deployment, site training, compliance monitoring, and data‑quality review. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Scientific Services**: Expert analysis and interpretation of EEG data – spanning biomarker discovery, trial‑design advice, translational insights, and comprehensive reporting. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon HQ**: Centralized portal for trial management, dataset exploration, cohort filtering, and site‑performance tracking. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding > $97 M (Series B upsized, announced April 6, 2026). The platform has analyzed **2 M+ hours of EEG** and completed **500 K+ home sleep tests** across **40+ clinical trials**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors not named in available sources; **Harmony Biosciences** announced as a partner (Dec 2025). [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Selected as one of **Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
  - Series B upsized to over $97 M in April 2026.
  - Expanding at‑home sleep testing (500 K+ tests completed) and building the world’s largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset** (2 M+ hours of analyzed EEG), providing depth and scale for biomarker discovery and AI model training.
- **End‑to‑end platform** covering the full drug‑development lifecycle – from an FDA‑cleared wearable device to cloud storage, analytics, and clinical‑trial services.
- **AI‑powered algorithms** for sleep staging, epileptiform characterization, and standardized spectral analysis, cleared under FDA 510(k).
- **Full regulatory and quality infrastructure** (SOC 2 Type II, US DPF/GDPR compliant, GCP‑backed security) that reduces risk for pharma partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling at‑home diagnostics**: Increasing the reach of the Waveband headband and home sleep testing services to neurologists, sleep physicians, and primary‑care settings.
- **Deepening biopharma partnerships**: Expanding clinical‑trial support from Phase 1 through Phase 4 and into post‑market studies.
- **Building the largest neurodiagnostic dataset**: Continuing to grow the Beacon Datastore to enable more precise, personalized therapies for brain‑health conditions.
- **Advancing AI‑driven neurotechnology**: Leveraging machine learning to discover novel biomarkers and develop objective clinical endpoints (e.g., hypersomnia partnership with Harmony Biosciences).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: “We’re working to change how brain health is measured, understood, and treated.” Employees see direct impact on getting treatments to patients faster. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Flexible work**: Headquarters in Boston (with offices in Paris, New York, and Cleveland) and a globally distributed team; many roles are remote‑eligible. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Values**: “Culture is a Team Sport,” “Commitment to Excellence,” and “We protect time” – emphasizing collaboration, rigor, and work‑life balance. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Growth opportunities**: 19 open positions (as of search date) across Analytics & ML, Clinical Diagnostics, Platform Engineering, Life Sciences, Product & Design, Hardware Engineering, and more. [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)
- **Team composition**: A mix of neuroscientists, machine‑learning engineers, clinicians, and biopharma veterans – creating a rich, interdisciplinary environment.

## Sources
1. [beacon.bio – Homepage](https://beacon.bio/)
2. [beacon.bio – About](https://beacon.bio/about)
3. [beacon.bio – Products & Services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
4. [beacon.bio – Careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
5. [Greenhouse – Beacon Biosignals Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)

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