# Associate Director, Study Start Up (Site Budgets & Contracts) at Eikon Therapeutics

- Company: Eikon Therapeutics
- What the company does: Advancing breakthrough therapeutics through the purposeful integration of science and engineering. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://eikontx.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Jersey City, NJ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $166K to $201K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/eikontherapeutics/jobs/5241187007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/eikon-therapeutics-associate-director-study-start-up-site-budgets-and-contracts/

## About the role

You know clinical site budgets from the inside: how a protocol translates into procedures, how procedure-level benchmarks and institutional overheads differ by country, and where negotiations typically stall. You are comfortable holding a firm, well-reasoned position with a site while keeping the relationship intact, and you know when to escalate. You bring structure to complex, cross-functional study start up work and use data to shorten cycle times rather than just report on them.

## What they're looking for

- Serve as the global subject-matter expert and accountable owner for investigator site and country budget development across assigned oncology studies
- Establish and govern global and country-specific budget templates, including benchmarking methodology, overhead and indirect-cost assumptions, and invoiceable-item conventions
- Develop, document, and maintain the FMV rationale for site budgets in an audit-ready manner, in alignment with anti-kickback, anti-bribery, and transparency requirements
- Lead budget and payment-term negotiations with investigator sites and institutions, directly on priority studies and sites and through oversight of CRO or vendor contracting teams
- Drive rapid, high-quality CTA execution to meet site activation targets across studies and countries
- Partner with Clinical Study Management and Study Start Up (SSU) leads to develop and execute study start up plans aligned with project timelines and site activation goals

Tags: Clinical Operations