Head of Business Development

The role

You will lead business development across pharma, diagnostics, and synthetic biology. You will originate and close partnerships by managing the commercial process from qualification to signature.

What you will do

• Originate and close partnerships across pharma, diagnostics, and synthetic biology.
• Own the commercial workstream from qualification through signature.
• Map how each account makes decisions regarding funding and approval.
• Qualify opportunities to ensure they have budget and decision-makers.
• Structure research collaborations, platform-access agreements, licenses, and co-development partnerships.
• Negotiate economics, intellectual property, data rights, field restrictions, governance, and downstream rights.
• Build account strategy with product leads.
• Work with the Head of Data Acquisition when data access is part of a partnership.
• Establish qualification, account-planning, and deal-review practices.
• Build the business development team over time.

Required qualifications

• Personally led and closed complex life sciences partnerships.
• Relationships with decision-makers in at least one core market.
• Understand how large life sciences companies fund and approve work across research, business development, legal, procurement, data governance, and executive leadership.
• Technically fluent enough to understand what models can do and represent the company with scientific leaders.
• Ability to distinguish serious commercial opportunities from research conversations.
• Comfortable creating deal structures and internal processes without a standard playbook.
• Know how to structure and negotiate platform, discovery, licensing, or co-development agreements.
• Experience working alongside a scientific or technical lead.

About the company

Radical Numerics is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Their mission is to master the code of life and reduce human suffering.