Business Development Lead, Life Sciences

The role

You will shape and execute a global life sciences partnership strategy. You will lead high-impact research, product, and platform partnerships across the life sciences ecosystem.

What you will do

• Lead full-lifecycle strategic partnerships from strategy to execution.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research, and lab partners.
• Translate partner needs and scientific workflows into product and program recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to structure partnerships with appropriate data and commercial models.
• Coordinate with Health, GTM, and cloud service provider teams for ecosystem adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with senior executives and scientific leaders.
• Bring structure to ambiguous opportunities and communicate decisions to senior leaders.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, product partnerships, business development, or general management across the life sciences and technology industries.
• Deep understanding of the life sciences ecosystem, scientific workflows, business models, and industry dynamics.
• Experience leading complex strategic partnerships spanning research, technical execution, commercial terms, and go-to-market strategy.
• Ability to engage credibly with scientific, technical, product, and business leaders.
• Effective cross-functional leadership through influence.
• Clear communication and structural thinking.
• Ability to make prioritization decisions in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Exceptional judgment and integrity.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.