Senior Director, Intelligence and Product Planning Bicara Therapeutics in Boston, MA

Title:

Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence and Product Planning (Oncology)

Location:

Boston

Department:
Commercial

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Commercial

Compensation

$281K – $331K

The actual salary offered within the range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, education, skills, and performance.

Full-time employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual and company performance.

To support your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits and wellness package, which includes medical, dental, and vision coverage upon hire.

Base salary ranges are periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Overview Application

Bicara Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence and Product Planning who will lead enterprise-level competitive intelligence and product planning to support Bicara's oncology pipeline, with a primary focus on ficerafusp alfa (BCA
101), our EGFR/TGF-β bifunctional antibody in development for HPV-negative recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), as well as future pipeline expansion opportunities for ficerafusp alfa and potential future assets.

• Serve as the senior strategic lead for competitive intelligence across ficerafusp alfa and future oncology pipeline assets, ensuring insights are translated into clear implications for development, commercialization, corporate strategy, and leadership decision-making.
• Partner with Commercial, Clinical Development, Program Strategy, Medical and Corporate Affairs, Business Development, and Finance stakeholders to identify priority competitive questions, anticipate market-shaping events, and align intelligence outputs to key business decisions.
• Design and lead competitive intelligence monitoring programs to inform pipeline development, indication prioritization, launch sequencing, and pre-launch decisions for ficerafusp alfa and future pipeline assets.
• Synthesize information from congresses, clinical trials, regulatory events, publications, investor communications, company disclosures, and secondary sources to assess competitor strategy, asset positioning, evidence generation, and potential implications for Bicara.
• Lead competitive scenario planning, strategic war gaming, and implications workshops to help cross-functional teams prepare for key competitor actions, data readouts, regulatory milestones, and evolving standards of care.
• Build a product planning capability that supports target product profile refinement, indication and sequencing strategy, launch readiness milestones, lifecycle planning, evidence generation priorities, and cross-functional planning for ficerafusp alfa and future assets.
• Partner with Program Strategy and functional leaders to translate competitive dynamics into product plans, decision frameworks, risks, opportunities, and recommendations for governance bodies and executive leadership.
• Regularly communicate competitive insights, product planning implications, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership through concise, executive-ready deliverables.
• Quickly build and maintain deep expertise in HPV-negative HNSCC, the competitive treatment landscape, adjacent oncology markets, and emerging scientific, regulatory, and commercial trends relevant to Bicara's pipeline.
• Lead and develop external partner relationships, ensuring high-quality, timely competitive intelligence and product planning support that is aligned with strategic objectives and appropriate for a resource-lean biotech environment.

• Bachelor's degree in business, science, or a quantitative discipline such as mathematics or statistics; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 12 years in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, including significant experience in competitive intelligence, product strategy, pipeline planning, commercial strategy, or strategic consulting.
• Demonstrated success leading competitive intelligence and strategic planning efforts that support advancement of early-stage, mid-stage, or pre-commercial pipeline products, ideally in oncology.
• Experience advising senior leadership and cross-functional governance teams on product strategy, portfolio implications, competitive dynamics, and business opportunities across global…