Senior Life Sciences Venture Strategist

CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is seeking a Senior Ventures Consultant to evaluate and shape high-potential innovation assets into credible venture opportunities. This role sits at the intersection of science, commercialization, market diligence, startup formation, and institutional venture development.

You will translate clinical and scientific advances into business cases, conduct comprehensive diligence, and partner with licensing, legal, finance, and venture leadership to move

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in startup formation, venture development, commercialization, venture capital, or innovation-driven operating environments.
• MBA preferred; experience with startup formation, venture capital, or early-stage commercialization.
• Experience in pharma/biotech/therapeutics/biologics/cell and gene therapy, business development, technology transfer, venture analysis, or early-stage life science company formation.
• Exposure to diligence for IP-backed venture opportunities, NewCoformation, capitalization models, governance readiness, and investor materials.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate high-conviction venture opportunities that have passed institutional triage and viability review.
• Conduct technical, market, competitive, and financial diligence for early venture opportunities.
• Translate scientific and clinical innovation into business cases, venture models, and investor-ready narratives.
• Assess commercialization pathways for therapeutics, biologics, cell and gene therapy, small molecule, and related life science assets.
• Prepare diligence materials and recommendations that support go or no-go decisions for venture formation and investment.
• Partner with licensing, portfolio, legal, finance, operations, faculty, entrepreneurs-in-residence, and venture leadership to move opportunities toward NewCoformation or institutional separation.
• Support pitch preparation, financial scenarios, investor materials, and early go-to-market thinking.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or a related field

7+ years of progressively responsible experience in startup formation, venture development, commercialization, venture capital, or innovation-driven operating environments

Job description

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is seeking a Senior Ventures Consultant to evaluate and shape high-potential innovation assets into credible venture opportunities. This role sits at the intersection of science, commercialization, market diligence, startup formation, and institutional venture development.

You will translate clinical and scientific advances into business cases, conduct comprehensive diligence, and partner with licensing, legal, finance, and venture leadership to move