Xaira Therapeutics

A big Xaira welcome to our top people & culture exec, Julia Tran! Julia is our newest Xairanaut, embracing our mission to transform drug discovery through AI. She joined us this week as the top people executive in the company. Julia will manage all aspects of talent acquisition, talent management and the nurturing of our most valuable asset – our team. We're really pleased that Julia will be bringing her culture-building magic to Xaira. She'll also bring her love of food, yoga, and live music. She once ran the Big Sur marathon, so she knows how to go the distance. Welcome, Julia! 🚀

Thanks to our friends at GeekWire for this profile of our Seattle team! If working with this crew sounds like your cup of tea, check out our open roles (link in comments).

Hello and happy Wednesday! Xaira is assembling the world's finest collection of Xairanauts: scientists, poets, operators, athletes, pronunciation experts and assorted other multi-hyphenates united around our goal to drive advances in AI to transform how we treat disease. Today we're shining a light on this research scientist position. We're looking for someone to identify and validate potential targets and lead a team to perform in vitro and in vivo research. Sound like your cup of tea? Apply within! And we welcome your ideas in the comments on how to brand our job posts of the week. "Ready, Aim, Hire" is the best we've been able to come up with so far (groan). We know you can do better.

Please welcome Philip Leung, David Adams MBA, Khoi Ha, Anika Burrell, PhD and Anne-Rachel Krostag from our Seattle team. They have a few tips for you on proper gear and enunciation. We hope the Academy will recognize this excellent work come awards season. Check out our open roles to join this fine crew.

In case you thought we were highlighting the only athlete scientist on our team last week -- Buwei Huang from our Seattle office is here to show you how it's done. Nothing but net!

As you know, we are poets and scientists at Xaira. But did you know we are also athletes? In today's installment, check out Justas Dauparas, PhD as he shows us how it's done. What a shot! Our list of talents continues to expand as we grow our team. We invite all poet-athlete-scientists-multi-hyphenates to check out our open roles and join the Xaira Nation!

A busy week at Xaira HQ as our team continues to grow: we welcome Jewison Biscocho to our business operations team! We're now taking submissions for the proper way to refer to Xaira employees. Xairians? Xaironauts? Xairheads? Let us know in the comments. And welcome, Jewison, to Team Xaira! Want a spiffy graphical welcome of your own? Scoot on over to our jobs section on LinkedIn and find your perfect fit: https://lnkd.in/gWRTQzED

We had a terrific time at our first science symposium at Xaira HQ! We ended the day with a quick pronunciation lesson from this fine-looking crew.

Next up in our DIY series of lessons, we've taken it right to the top. Please welcome our CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne! (and stay tuned for Season Two, in which we explain how to pronounce Tessier-Lavigne)

In today's installment, our interim head of brand & people, Cindy Lundin Mesaros of Foresite Labs, shows us how it's done. (editor's note: we still have work to do here ...)