Fractional Founding Growth Lead

Go Fractional; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Infera is hiring its first growth lead to drive how we reach scientists, decide target labs, and run outreach. This role starts as a part-time contract with a path to a full-time founding position, working with founders to build a scalable growth playbook.

You will own the funnel, attend conferences, create scientist-focused content, run LinkedIn/email/ads/webinars, and report weekly on pipeline and goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in growth, marketing or business development at life-science tools, lab software or biotech company
• Know how research labs adopt new tools and who decides: PIs, lab managers, core directors and procurement
• Have a network in academic or biotech research communities, or a track record of building one fast
• Write clearly and concisely, and are comfortable picking up the phone or walking into a lab
• Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building processes from scratch

Responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel for academic labs, core facilities, biotech incubators and early-stage biotechs, from building target lists to booking first conversations
• Represent us at conferences, seminars and research-community events with booths, talks and demos
• Turn product capabilities into posts, demos and case studies that scientists want to read
• Run channels end-to-end (LinkedIn, email, ads, webinars), measure results and optimize
• Provide field signal to founders to shape product and roadmap
• Help set and hit lab-adoption goals and report on pipeline weekly

Skills

Growth marketing

Business development

Networking in biotech

Clear written communication

Education

Life sciences degree

Job description

About the role

We're hiring our first growth lead to own how Infera reaches scientists. You'll decide which labs we go after, where we show up, and how we tell our story, and you'll run the outreach yourself. You'll work directly with both founders and build the playbook future growth hires will run. This role starts as a part-time contract, with a path to a full-time founding position.

Key responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel for academic labs, core facilities, biotech incubators and early-stage biotechs, from building target lists to booking first conversations
• Get Infera in the room: find the conferences, seminars and research-community events worth attending, and represent us at booths, talks and demos
• Turn what the product does into posts, one-pagers, demos and case studies that scientists want to read, and that sound like a person wrote them
• Run our channels end-to-end (LinkedIn, email, targeted ads, webinars), measure what's working and cut what isn't
• Bring field signal back to the founders, so the themes you hear in every conversation shape what we build next
• Help set and hit our lab-adoption goals, and report on pipeline each week

Minimum qualifications

• Have 3+ years in growth, marketing or business development at a life-science tools, lab software or biotech company
• Know how research labs adopt new tools, and who decides: PIs, lab managers, core directors and procurement
• Have a network in academic or biotech research communities, or a track record of building one fast
• Write clearly and concisely, and are comfortable picking up the phone or walking into a lab
• Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building processes from scratch

Preferred qualifications

• Bench experience or a graduate degree in the life sciences
• Experience as an early hire at a startup
• Already use AI tools to work faster and better

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary (full-time equivalent):

$60,000—$120,000 USD

Logistics

• Commitment: Part-time contract to start, with a path to full-time.
• Location: San Francisco, CA preferred. Remote within the US considered.
• Equity: Meaningful.