Senior Technical Sales Lead, Life Sciences

Patlytics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Patlytics is seeking a Senior Technical Sales Lead, Life Sciences, to drive front-end GTM efforts across pharma, biotech, medical devices, and related tech sectors. You will translate scientific signals into a prioritized sales pipeline, engage with senior decision-makers, and shape the market approach with credibility and strategic insight.

You will map accounts, diagnose where Patlytics adds value in IP and R&D workflows, and build actionable intelligence for Account Executives and Legal

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IP and life sciences.
• Ability to read and synthesize technical and legal material (patents, papers, pipelines).
• Executive presence with senior technical and legal buyers.
• Strong research and commercial judgment in fast-moving environments.
• Ownership mindset and proactive problem solving.
• Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Map accounts and prioritize across life sciences and tech verticals using patent and market signals.
• Conduct in-depth technical/IP discovery to understand portfolio and workflows.
• Create high-quality account briefs for sales and engineering teams.
• Lead targeted outreach to senior technical and legal buyers.
• Define market signals and sharpen ICP for GTM strategy.
• Collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Product and Strategy to refine targeting.

Skills

IP strategy

Life sciences

Executive presence

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Business development

Tools

Patent databases

Job description

Why Patlytics

Patlytics is the premier and market leading end-to-end platform for the entire patent lifecycle. The platform integrates AI-powered solutions that accelerate infringement and invalidity analysis, patent application drafting, office action analysis, and portfolio management/IP strategy.

Backed by SignalFire, N47, and Google's Gradient Ventures, Patlytics is the most capitalized AI-native IP platform with total funding of approximately $65 million, raised in under two and a half years. Patlytics is trusted by the world's most innovative companies, over 40% of Am Law 100 firms, and multiple top Legal 500/Chambers-ranked IP practices, including Quinn Emanuel, McDermott Will & Schulte, Foley & Lardner, Canon, Rivian, Xerox, Asahi Kasei, and TaylorMade. The matters these firms bring to Patlytics are among their most critical: strategic patent prosecution, active litigation, and high-stakes licensing negotiations. Faced with record claim volumes and growing case complexity, practitioners trust Patlytics to scale their output without compromising the precision their clients, the courts, and their firms demand.

With teams across the globe we’re building a global company fueled by exceptional talent and bold ideas. Our rapid expansion is driven by people who bring entrepreneurial energy, intellectual curiosity, and a shared commitment to setting the global standard for AI-powered IP intelligence. This is a rare chance to help define a new category in real time – the work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth is unmatched.

Role Overview

Patlytics’ Senior Technical Sales Lead, Life Sciences owns the front of the GTM motion across life sciences, pharma/biotech, medical device, and technical enterprise sectors. In this role you’ll identify and shape the highest-value opportunities – translating scientific and technical signals like patent filings, clinical pipelines, funding events, litigation activity, and R&D movement into a prioritized, well-researched pipeline the Sales team can act on with precision.

This is a senior, judgment-heavy role for someone who can operate credibly with sophisticated technical and legal buyers. You’ll pair genuine technical and IP fluency with commercial instinct: mapping target accounts, diagnosing where Patlytics creates value within an organization’s IP and R&D landscape, and building the account intelligence and point of view that arm Account Executives and Legal Engineers to win. You’ll set the strategy for how Patlytics approaches the life sciences market, not just execute against a list.

This role is located in New York, NY.

What You’ll Do

• Own account mapping and prioritization across life sciences, pharma/biotech, medical device, and technical verticals – using patent filings, funding events, clinical pipelines, publications, litigation activity, and hiring signals to identify and rank buying intent.
• Conduct deep technical and IP discovery on prospects – understanding their science, portfolio, and where Patlytics improves their patent and R&D workflows.
• Build and maintain high-quality account intelligence and strategic briefs that arm Account Executives and Legal Engineers with context, hooks, stakeholder maps, and a clear point of view on the opportunity.
• Lead targeted, research-driven outreach to senior technical and legal buyers (R&D leaders, IP counsel, patent strategists), engaging credibly on their terms and workflow challenges.
• Act as the "Voice of the Market" for life sciences – synthesizing signals and patterns across the landscape to sharpen ICP definition and shape GTM strategy.
• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Strategy to refine targeting, feed the pipeline, and iterate quickly as the market and product evolve.
• Track competitive moves, emerging opportunity spaces, and shifts in the life sciences and technical IP landscape, and translate them into action.

What You’ll Have

• 8+ years of relevant experience, including meaningful depth in IP and life sciences.
• Deep fluency reading and synthesizing technical and legal material (patents, papers, clinical pipelines) and translating it into concrete commercial insight and strategy.
• Executive presence and the ability to engage credibly with senior technical and legal decision-makers and build trust quickly.
• Strong research and commercial judgment, with comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving, high-bar environment.
• Extreme ownership and a proactive mindset – taking responsibility for outcomes and driving clarity rather than waiting for direction.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication – able to make a rigorous technical case compelling to sophisticated, busy buyers.
• Clear dialogue and strong cross-functional collaboration – able to work effectively with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Strategy, especially in fast-moving cycles.
• Curiosity and judgment about AI in technical and legal workflows, including how AI is changing patent practice.
• Bonus: USPTO registration; familiarity with patent databases and IP workflows; prior GTM, business development, or client-facing experience.