Sales Specialist

Mason Harding; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Equity

Ground-floor exposure with CEO/COO

Job summary

Mason Harding helps a client, an AI/ML-driven protein engineering company, hire two Sales Specialists to build out major US hubs. San Diego-based role is remote, serving local biotech and APAC distributor support from international partners; Boston role focuses on biotech, CROs and cell therapy.

Ideal candidates bring 3–5 years of life sciences technical sales, hands-on wet lab experience, and a proven ability to own a full sales cycle in a growing company with equity potential.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years life sciences technical sales experience.
• Track record selling recombinant proteins, cytokines or growth factors.
• Hands-on wet lab experience; you know these reagents from the bench.
• Self-starter comfortable owning a full territory and sales cycle.

Skills

Life sciences sales

Recombinant proteins sales

Wet lab experience

Territory ownership

Job description

Our client is an AI/ML-driven protein engineering company building next-generation recombinant proteins for drug discovery and therapeutic development.

Using computational biology and high-throughput screening, they're engineering proteins with best-in-class functionality, thermal stability and manufacturability, solving the lot-to-lot variability and animal-origin dependence that limits traditional expression platforms.

Backed, funded, and scaling fast expanding from 3 SKUs to a 15-product cytokine portfolio, with a product advancing toward GMP manufacturing for IND-enabling and clinical use.

We're now helping them to hire two Sales Specialists to build out two of the country's most important life sciences hubs from the ground up;

Roles

• Boston role: owns the Greater Boston territory, focused on biotech, CROs and cell therapy customers across the Boston/Cambridge corridor.
• San Diego role: remote, based in San Diego, covering the local biotech corridor plus the Bay Area, with APAC account support from international distributors.

What you'll need to apply:

• 3-5 years life sciences technical sales experience
• Track record selling recombinant proteins, cytokines or growth factors
• Hands-on wet lab experience, you know these reagents from the bench, not just the deck
• Self-starter comfortable owning a full territory and sales cycle

What's in it for you:

• Salary + Uncapped commission + Equity in a rapidly scaling life sciences company
• Ground-floor seat shaping commercial strategy directly with the CEO and COO