Consulting Partner — Life Sciences

QofAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

QofAI is hiring a Partner-level leader to own senior relationships and commercial outcomes for private equity clients, partnering with deal and operating partners and portfolio CEOs to drive EBITDA through AI.

You will identify high-value AI use cases in life sciences, shape engagements, and ensure delivery excellence while expanding accounts and leading cross-functional teams across engineering, data, and product.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience at a top-tier firm or equivalent.
• Partner, Principal, or Associate Partner experience at McKinsey, Bain, or BCG.
• Deep life sciences expertise across pharma, biotech, or medical devices.
• Proven business development track record and senior client trust.
• Comfort with PE deal partners, operating partners, and portfolio CEOs.

Responsibilities

• Own the senior relationship and the commercial outcome for PE clients.
• Sell, shape, and stand behind the AI-enabled engagements.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account from diligence to exit prep.
• Lead discussions with portfolio CEOs, deal partners, and operating partners.
• Drive account growth with new portfolio companies and mandates.
• Direct engineering, data, and product teams to focus on high-impact problems.
• Coach teams and raise the standard of work.

Skills

Life sciences

Business development

Relationship management

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

MBA

PhD in Life Sciences

Job description

QofAI brings elite consulting and forward-deployed engineering to the middlemarket — turning artificial intelligence into measurable EBITDA growth acrossevery deal, portfolio, and business. We sit where strategy meets software: workingalongside investors and operators, finding where AI moves the numbers, and thenbuilding the systems that get it there.

That means the work here stays close to the outcome. You sit with the investors andoperators making the decisions, and you get to watch your recommendations land inreal companies.

The role

This is a Partner-level role. You own the senior relationship and the commercialoutcome for a set of private equity clients, working directly with deal partners andoperating partners on one side and portfolio company CEOs and their leadership teamson the other. You sell the work, shape it, and stand behind the result. You workdirectly with the co-founders.

• Bring a working knowledge of how pharma, biotech, and medical device businesses makemoney, from R&D and clinical development through launch, market access, andcommercial operations.
• Find the AI use cases that matter in this world: clinical trial operations, medicalaffairs, field force effectiveness, pricing and payer strategy, and manufacturing andsupply reliability.
• Speak credibly with chief commercial officers, heads of R&D, and regulatory leadersabout where automation is safe, where it is not, and where the real returns sit.
• Own the senior relationship with deal partners and operating partners at our PEclients, and become the trusted advisor to portfolio company CEOs and theirleadership teams.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account, from diligence and the firsthundred days through hold-period execution and exit preparation.
• Lead the conversations that decide where AI actually moves EBITDA, what getsprioritized, and how the work gets sequenced.
• Win and grow accounts: new portfolio companies, new mandates, and new stakeholders.
• Point QofAI's engineering, data, and product teams at the right problems, and holdthe bar on quality and timelines.
• Coach the people on your engagements and raise the standard of the work.

What we're looking for

This is a Partner-level hire. We want someone who has carried a book of business anddelivered at the top of a tier-one firm, and who knows life sciences cold. We'relooking for people with 10 or more years of professional experience who:

• Have Partner, Principal, or Associate Partner experience at McKinsey, Bain, or BCG.
• Bring deep life sciences expertise, with real exposure to pharma, biotech, or medicaldevices and the commercial, R&D, or operations problems that drive their value.
• Bring a real business development track record. You have sold work, ownedrelationships with senior buyers, and grown accounts, not just delivered someoneelse's sale.
• Are comfortable sitting across from PE deal partners and operating partners on oneside and portfolio company CEOs on the other.
• Have a clear record of impact and senior client trust.
• Think in structure and communicate plainly, whether running a CEO working session orwriting a one-pager a deal partner will actually use.
• Operate with high ownership in ambiguous, fast-moving situations. You set the agendarather than wait for one.
• Work where you want, but are ready to travel to client sites as needed.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated curiosity with AI tools, and a point of view on where they earn theirkeep in life sciences.
• Operating experience inside a life sciences company, not just advising one.
• A network of senior life sciences operators and buyers you can call.

Location & compensation

This role is open remote and from any of our three HQs — the San Francisco BayArea, Pittsburgh, and Austin — with travel to client sites as the workdemands. We offer competitive compensation and the kind of ownership that's hard tofind: senior relationships and commercial outcomes you own end-to-end.