Engagement Management

Chai Discovery Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chai Discovery Inc. is building out its founding partnerships team in San Francisco, seeking a partner-focused leader to accelerate collaboration with scientists and external collaborators.

The role emphasizes driving programs, maintaining healthy partnerships, and translating insights into product strategy. You will work with world-class researchers to push multiple initiatives forward, shaping how AI accelerates drug discovery.

Qualifications

• Experience building partnerships in biopharma or AI-enabled life sciences.
• Strong communication and project management skills.
• Ability to operate across scientists, product, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Anchor partnerships with scientists and external collaborators to drive programs.
• Ensure partnerships are healthy, aligned with company goals and exceed expectations.
• Synthesize learnings into actionable intelligence to shape product and strategy.

Skills

Partnership management

Biopharma experience

Strategic collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Job description

About Chai Discovery

Chai builds the design suite for molecules. We train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction, so scientists can move faster and pursue targets that other methods cannot reach.

AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and Chai is at the forefront of this shift. Leading pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis are adopting our platform to power their drug discovery programs.

We value diverse perspectives and are ready to find greatness in unexpected places.

About this role

We are building out our founding partnerships team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort.

Nothing is more important to our business than the success and growth of our partnerships, and that kind of responsibility is exactly what the right person will be eager to assume. You will do whatever it takes to ensure our partnerships are healthy and that Chai exceeds expectations.

You’ll team up with phenomenal scientists to push forward multiple concurrent programs, accelerating time to clinic at an unprecedented rate. And you will emerge as a trusted thought partner, helping your counterparts fundamentally rethink their operating model in an era of AI.

You’ll also be synthesizing what you learn into actionable intelligence for the rest of the company, helping us shape our product and our future. It will be a lot of fun, a lot of work, and extraordinarily rewarding.

About you

We index on outlier resourcefulness, integrity and execution. You sweat the small stuff, you value relationships, you hold timelines, and you keep everyone on the same page—without ever dropping balls. We can count on you, and so can our partners.

We value scientific and biopharma experience, and we are also more than willing to make a bet on exceptional people with translatable skills. Low-ego, high-EQ, motivated and mission-driven is what we’re looking for.

We offer

The opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect & promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly.