Director, Analytical Chemistry

The Role:

Moderna is seeking a Director, Analytical Chemistry to provide scientific, strategic, and organizational leadership for discovery-stage analytical chemistry activities supporting mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) research across a diverse portfolio of nucleic acid medicines. This leader will define and advance analytical strategies that enable rapid design-make-test-learn cycles across novel ionizable lipids, polymers, excipients, payloads, formulations, and delivery systems used in mRNA-LNP therapeutics and vaccines.

The successful candidate will serve as a senior analytical partner to medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, formulation, delivery sciences, platform biology, and selected development functions to accelerate molecular design, analytical decision-making, and candidate progression. The individual will guide analytical approaches spanning small molecules, polymers and lipid characterization, impurity profiling, structure elucidation, or...