Director of Strategy & BD — AI-Driven Growth & Forecasts

Cytokinetics; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytokinetics, based in South San Francisco, is seeking a Director of Strategy & Business Development to lead top-down drug revenue forecasting, asset valuation modeling, and enterprise AI initiatives. This role drives enterprise planning, informs portfolio decisions, and interfaces with senior leadership.

The candidate will balance Business Development analytics with corporate strategy, delivering concise insights for the Board while advancing Cytokinetics' AI ambitions and integration into BD

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years across strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or biotech/pharma BD.
• Demonstrated ability to build top-down drug revenue forecasts from epidemiology, pricing, and uptake.
• Strong quantitative and financial-modeling skills: rNPV, DCF, comparable transactions, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Strategic thinker able to structure ambiguous problems into decision-ready recommendations.
• AI-capable: fluent with LLM tooling, prompt engineering, and building lightweight automations; able to take a use case from POC to adoption
• Excellent executive communication; credibility with senior leaders and the Board
• Therapeutic fluency (cardiovascular/rare disease a plus)

Responsibilities

• Own and build first-pass, top-down drug revenue forecasts translating epidemiology, pricing, and uptake into commercial forecasts.
• Own the development and application of valuation models (rNPV, scenario, sensitivity) including out-licensing/deal modeling.
• Challenge and pressure-test the latest commercial assumptions to strengthen forecast and valuation quality.
• Own and improve reusable forecast, valuation, comps, and screening templates for BD decision-making.
• Support ad-hoc BD analysis and tooling (e.g., asset-identification screen across large scientific-congress datasets).
• Support annual strategic planning cycle and the August Board presentation end-to-end.
• Own cross-functional planning inputs spanning Finance, R&D, and Commercial.
• Support AI initiative governance and enablement across executive committees.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Financial modeling

Education

MBA/PhD/MD or equivalent a plus

Tools

LLM tooling

Job description

Cytokinetics, based in South San Francisco, is seeking a Director of Strategy & Business Development to lead top-down drug revenue forecasting, asset valuation modeling, and enterprise AI initiatives. This role drives enterprise planning, informs portfolio decisions, and interfaces with senior leadership.

The candidate will balance Business Development analytics with corporate strategy, delivering concise insights for the Board while advancing Cytokinetics' AI ambitions and integration into BD