Head of Business Development

The role

You will build the pharma partnership business from the ground up. You will identify target companies, lead negotiations, and translate technology applications for scientific and business audiences.

What you will do

• Identify target companies and map decision units
• Run outreach and lead negotiations to signature
• Construct novel applications of technology against company pipelines
• Translate applications for scientific, clinical, and business audiences
• Build and maintain relationships with pharma sponsors and funders
• Bring pharma priorities and unmet needs to research and product teams
• Work with research, clinical, product, and legal to scope and structure terms
• Work directly with the CEO on pipeline, forecast, and deal strategy

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in pharma and/or diagnostics business development
• Documented track record of leading or co-leading pharma deals in companion diagnostics, biomarkers, patient stratification, or similar
• Built a pharma partnership pipeline from scratch, or decided from the pharma side which partnerships got funded
• Fluency in how pharma makes partnership decisions
• Relationships across large and mid-cap oncology pharma that you can activate now
• Comfortable doing deep on technical material, with a history of finding non-obvious applications for it
• Bias for action

Nice to have

• MD, PhD, PharmD, NP, or a Master’s degree in cancer biology, molecular biology, cell biology, biomedical sciences, pharmacology, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related life sciences field

About the company

Ataraxis is a clinical AI research lab working at the intersection of multi-modal AI and precision medicine. The company develops AI methods to predict patient outcomes and treatment response.