Engagement Manager, Life Sciences

Goodfire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive benefits

Opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology

Job summary

Goodfire is seeking an Engagement Manager in Life Sciences at our San Francisco HQ. This role involves managing significant partnerships, guiding projects through their lifecycle, and ensuring measurable outcomes for our clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define success criteria and build lasting relationships.

Ideal candidates will have experience in engagement management, strong communication skills, and an ability to grasp AI and life sciences concepts rapidly. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex customer engagements from scoping through delivery.
• Ability to drive clarity across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with AI/ML and life sciences concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manage pilots, deployments, renewals, and expansions from scoping through delivery.
• Clarify scientific objectives and technical requirements.
• Partner with teams to keep work moving and risks visible.
• Serve as the engagement lead for technical and executive stakeholders.
• Capture learnings and identify patterns across engagements.

Skills

Project management

Customer communication

AI/ML concepts

Strong judgment

Tools

Technical products

Data platforms

Job description

About the role

We're looking for an Engagement Manager, Life Sciences to own the success of our most important life sciences partnerships from first technical scoping through pilot execution, delivery, and expansion. This role demands scientific curiosity, operational rigor, and strong customer judgment: the ability to understand a partner's goals, coordinate a technical team, and make sure Goodfire's work translates into real impact.

This is a high-ownership role where you will sit at the center of customer delivery. You will partner with Account Executives, Field Team members, engineers, researchers, and customer stakeholders to define success criteria, manage timelines, unblock execution, and turn complex technical engagements into trusted long‑term relationships.

Our life sciences partners are working on high-stakes problems across drug discovery, biology, clinical development, and scientific AI. You'll need to be credible with technical and scientific teams, precise about what success means, and pragmatic about how to move fast while respecting the complexity of their workflows, data, and internal decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Own life sciences engagements end to end: manage pilots, deployments, renewals, and expansions from scoping through delivery and measurable customer impact
• Translate customer goals into execution plans: clarify scientific objectives, technical requirements, success criteria, timelines, owners, and decision points
• Coordinate cross‑functional delivery: partner with Field Team members, engineers, researchers, GTM, and customer stakeholders to keep work moving and risks visible
• Build trusted customer relationships: serve as the day‑to‑day engagement lead for technical and executive stakeholders across life sciences accounts
• Turn delivery into repeatable playbooks: capture learnings, identify patterns across engagements, and help shape how Goodfire serves life sciences customers at scale

Required experience

• Experience managing complex technical, scientific, or enterprise customer engagements from scoping through delivery.
• Strong project management and customer communication skills, with the ability to drive clarity across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to learn AI/ML and life sciences concepts quickly and translate them into practical customer‑facing plans.
• High agency, strong judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguity where the playbook is still being built

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in engagement management, solutions, consulting, or implementation for technical products.
• Familiarity with pharma, biotech, computational biology, drug discovery, clinical development, or scientific research workflows.
• Experience working with AI/ML, data platforms, developer tools, infrastructure, or other deeply technical products.
• Track record of growing strategic accounts through strong delivery, trusted relationships, and clear expansion paths

Where we work

We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company‑wide remote week per month.

What we offer

This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.

Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory - we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world‑class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.