Blackbird - Senior Manager, Patient Recruitment & Insights

About Raven: We are Raven, RA Capital’s healthcare incubator. From discovery to delivery, whether we incubate, accelerate or rejuvenate, Raven’s goal is to turn scientific breakthroughs into transformative therapies and get them quickly, safely and efficiently to the patients that need them most. Raven’s experienced scientists, operators, and healthcare innovators have deep sector expertise across therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and services. They have brought hundreds of therapeutics into development, managed hospital systems, optimized clinical trials and navigated payor and regulatory systems to deliver patient impact - and they are ready to work with you. About RA Capital: Founded in 2004, RA Capital Management is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in public and private healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health companies. RA Capital creates and funds innovative companies, from private seed rounds to public follow-on financings, allowing management teams to drive value creation from inception through commercialization and beyond. RA Capital's knowledge engine is guided by our TechAtlas internal research division, and Raven, RA Capital’s company building team, offers entrepreneurs and innovators a collaborative and comprehensive platform to explore the novel and the re-imagined. RA Capital has more than 150 employees and over $10 billion in assets under management. About Blackbird: Blackbird is an integrated development team comprised of Clinical Development, Operations, Regulatory and Patient Engagement within Raven. Blackbird's mission is to transform clinical trial planning and execution, resulting in lower costs and expedited timelines across RA Capital's portfolio. Blackbird provides companies with strategic, data-driven clinical study design assessments, operational optimizations, and innovative best practices to minimize inefficiencies and prevent the need to “reinvent the wheel” at each portfolio company. The Role: This is a hands-on, execution-focused role at the center of Blackbird's Patient-Centered Innovation team. You will be the team's utility player: partnering with the Associate Director of Patient Recruitment & Engagement and the Director of Patient Engagement & Insights to move projects from strategy to delivery across the full patient engagement lifecycle from recruitment campaigns to advocacy relationships, patient insight programs, and internal tools. Where the senior members of the team architect strategies for portfolio companies, you will make those strategies real: developing the materials, managing the timelines, coordinating the vendors, engaging with patients and advocates, synthesizing the data, and keeping a large portfolio of concurrent workstreams on track. This is an ideal role for a rising professional who has mastered the fundamentals of clinical trial recruitment or patient engagement and wants broad, cross-functional exposure inside a venture-backed biotech ecosystem — with a clear runway to grow into strategic ownership over time. Key Responsibilities 1. Recruitment & Enrollment Execution Campaign Support: Support the build-out and day-to-day management of central recruitment campaigns for portfolio company trials, including tracking referral quality, monitoring campaign performance, and flagging enrollment risks to senior team members. Vendor Coordination: Serve as the operational point of contact for recruitment vendors and digital marketing partners — managing timelines, deliverables, and reporting cadences under the direction of the Associate Director. Material Development: Draft and produce recruitment materials, advertisements, and educational resources, translating highly technical clinical trial content into clear, accessible language for patients and caregivers. Enrollment Tracking: Maintain dashboards and trackers that monitor enrollment velocity across the portfolio, surfacing early warning signs of trial stalls for the team to act…