Operating Partner (AI Research), London

The role

You will work as a member of a compact, agile team to catalyse business critical initiatives through partnership with cross-functional leaders. You will support VPs of AI to deliver strategic priorities and drive operational excellence.

What you will do

• Advise and soundboard for leaders to enable effective operation
• Distinguish critical leadership priorities from support tasks
• Prepare, present and gain agreement on proposals among stakeholders
• Influence teams to execute initiatives
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to gain holistic understanding
• Translate complex technical developments into executive summaries and strategic presentations
• Optimise for leanness and proactively spot and break down blockers

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of operating with senior executive leaders as a trusted advisor
• Ability to learn and absorb technical information and grasp machine learning/frontier AI concepts
• Ability to translate complex technical matters into actionable executive communication
• Ability to break down highly ambiguous, multi-faceted problems into concrete plans
• Ability to build rapid trust and drive alignment across diverse, interdisciplinary teams without direct line authority
• High resilience and adaptability in dynamic scale-up environments
• Roll-up-your-sleeves mentality

Nice to have

• Background in a Chief of Staff, Strategic Operations, or Operating Partner role within a fast-scaling tech or AI organization
• Familiarity or working exposure to digital biology, computational chemistry, or biopharma workflows
• Experience facilitating executive team rhythms, planning cycles, and organizational scaling mechanisms

About the company

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. The company uses AI to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules and develop medicines.