Motionhall Scientific Analyst Jobs

MotionHall is looking to hire recent graduates in biochemistry, neuroscience, or other areas of advanced life sciences study to join our full-time team as an important career step into a sector of private industry which is rapidly modernizing.

Responsibilities and Reporting:

As a scientific analyst at MotionHall, you will be responsible for studying and reviewing the mechanisms of action and scientific specifics of new medical innovations being developed by biotech companies around the globe. You will consider these innovations in the context of other biotech and pharmaceutical companies who can partner to continue the development and distribution of these innovations, where merited by the quality of the innovation, to patients worldwide.

Career Pathing:

This role supports our Quality Assurance, Product and Engineering, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence teams.

Natural career paths from this starting point include roles in:

• Product Management;
• Advanced Scientific Analysis;
• Data Science & Engineering;

New entrants may also request to try a period as a Scientific Business Analyst and explore the career pathing available for that role as well. You may view the Scientific Business Analyst role, here.

Natural career paths for our Scientific Business Analyst role includes:

• Operations & Company Leadership;
• Sales & Strategy Consulting;
• Marketing & Content Writing;

Requirements

No single path of specific previous experience is required for this job, however a good candidate will have at minimum a BSc in an appropriate area of study within the life sciences, or equivalent experience with this subject matter.

This job requires enthusiasm for innovative research in the biological sciences and high attention to detail.

Work will be completed in a software-driven environment and a successful candidate will have a high degree of comfort and fluency working or learning how to work with complex software tools and will be able to communicate as part of a remote-first, software-driven team.

The following are not necessary, but will be considered valuable:

• Experience working with programming or scripting languages, such as Python, HTML, CSS, MatLab, and/or scripting-level spreadsheet work in Excel or Google Sheets
• Comfort working with command line environments and version control software
• Strong systems thinking mindset and a deep curiosity about the world
• Ability to solve problems in a self-directed manner
• Experience with records and information management, and/or information retrieval software and best practices, including database software such as MySQL or PostgreSQL

Location: This is a remote-first role, so residence in a particular city is not required. This role is only open to Canadian residents at this time.

Benefits

• Flexible compensation plans that include competitive salary and equity options, plus three weeks vacation and health benefits
• We look for our team to invest in the future with us, and we invest in our team to build that future. During your interview, we’ll want to talk about how we can help you meet and exceed your professional goals and our entire team will be in your corner as you grow
• Take on mission-driven work that pairs doing good with doing well. The work you do will have a real impact on the success of our customers, their companies and people everywhere as we work together to bring the best new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, childhood illness and other diseases to the patients who need them

MotionHall is committed to building a diverse and inclusive company that celebrates and develops individuals of all backgrounds. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage all applicants.

About MotionHall:

MotionHall leads in deal enablement for global biopharmaceutical companies actively engaged in the research and development of new medicines, vaccines, drugs and diagnostics. Founded by Dalhousie alums in neuroscience and computer science, we are a venture-backed, Silicon Valley technology company and growth-stage startup supported by Village Global; a network-driven fund backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg to advance improvements in healthcare.

At MotionHall, we believe in the power of small teams to achieve great things. Leveraged on top of technology, teammates at MotionHall work to maintain a team as small and high-powered as possible so that we can assure quality and agility in results for our membership. Our small but powerful team consists of just 30 teammates spanning every major pharmaceutical geography.

Our mission is to bring promising life sciences breakthroughs to patients faster and at lower cost.

You can learn more about us by visiting our website and careers page:

https://www.motionhall.com/careers/