Associate Director / Director, Alliance Management
Associate Director / Director, Alliance Management
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05-05-2025
Job Description
The Associate Director / Director Alliance Management is a highimpact role that will help oversee critical and strategic collaborations at Genesis including existing alliances with major pharmaceutical companies with a particular focus on AIfocused platform partnerships. This role will also support new and existing technology collaborations related to the GEMS platform and may provide support to various other strategic initiatives.
This role will report to the Vice President Business Development and may be based at Genesis Therapeutics physical offices in Burlingame CA or San Diego (hybrid schedule).
What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)
- Alliance management
- Act as alliance manager for Genesiss AIfocused research collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies
- Own communication with key external stakeholders support Genesis project teams and drive preparations for all joint research governance meetings
- Technology collaborations
- Act as business lead on critical technology and AI infrastructure deals to support GEMS platform capabilities and leading computational research at Genesis
- Examples include major cloud computing contracts GPU infrastructure for AI model scaling data generation and other complementary technologies
- Strategic initiatives
- Support Genesis corporate communications and media strategy interfacing directly with Genesiss external communications agency
- Provide strategic perspectives on GEMS platform roadmap based on insights from partnerships with major pharmaceutical and technology companies
What youll bring
- PhD in chemistry life sciences machine learning or similar computational field with focus on drug discovery applications
- 68 years of industrial experience across biotech / pharmaceutical operating roles and/or life sciences consulting roles serving major pharmaceutical companies
- Experience operating in a fastpaced environment at the intersection of science and business (e.g. toptier strategy consulting venturebacked biotech startups)
- Deep expertise in preclinical small molecule drug discovery (e.g. medicinal chemistry at a major pharmaceutical company or similar exposure to molecular drug design)
- Strong project management experience involving crossfunctional scientific teams
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally if required approximately 10% time
- Excellent Powerpoint presentation Excel modeling communication and listening skills
Wed be thrilled if you have experience with
- Alliance management within a fastpaced biotech company or similar externalfacing roles particularly if involved in discovery collaborations with top pharma partners
- Complex transactions and licensing contracts in life sciences and technology
- Emerging AI technologies and other computational screening tools for discovery of small molecule drug candidates
- AI technology landscape including cloud computing and technology infrastructure providers
- Financial and budgetary analysis of strategic alliances for corporate decision making and longrange planning
- Corporate communications in life sciences / technology
What we offer
- Competitive Pay
- Stock Option Eligibility
- 401(k) Plan
- Open PTO Policy
- Paid Company Holidays
- Free lunch and snacks at our offices
- Health Care Plan including Medical Dental and Vision fully covered for the employees
Our team has created the industrys most advanced molecular AI platform called GEMS (Genesis Exploration of Molecular Space) to accelerate and optimize small molecule drug discovery and to enable the discovery of novel firstinclass and bestinclass small molecule drugs for challenging and/or undruggable targets.
The company has leveraged GEMS to build an internal pipeline with multiple programs against highvalue targets including datapoor and canonically undruggable targets where GEMS is uniquely advantaged. In addition Genesis has signed AIfocused platform collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies including most recently Incyte Corporation (Feb 2025) and Gilead Sciences (Sept 2024).
We raised a $200M series B in August 2023 and have raised over $300M in funding from top technology and biotech investors including Andreessen Horowitz Rock Springs Capital T. Rowe Price Fidelity Radical Ventures NVentures (NVIDIAs VC arm) BlackRock and Menlo Ventures.
Genesis is headquartered in Burlingame CA with a fully integrated laboratory in San Diego. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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