Account Executive, Global Accounts

Cradle

$100K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Boston, MA
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in life sciences or equivalent hands-on experience in R&D teams.
  • 5+ years of B2B sales experience, preferably in SaaS, with top 5% quota-exceeding history.
  • Confidence in navigating technical topics and translating them into business value.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous settings and design playbooks.
  • Strong listening skills with a curious and humble approach to learning.

Responsibilities

  • Drive business development across biotech and biopharma, nurturing leads and closing enterprise deals.
  • Own strategic accounts focusing on top global pharma companies, generating significant recurring revenue.
  • Collaborate with product, ML, engineering, and customer success teams on complex projects.
  • Act as the customer voice, providing feedback to shape product direction and priorities.
  • Build a personal brand within the biotech and AI-for-science community through engagement and events.
  • Innovate sales strategies, playbooks, and processes to enhance scalability in a science-driven startup.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and generous equity stakes in the company.
  • Wide range of employee benefits.
  • Opportunities for career progression.
  • Supportive team culture focused on ownership, urgency, and creativity.
Full Job Description
Context

Cradle helps global biotech and biopharma leaders design radically better proteins from next-generation biologics to high-efficiency enzymes powered by cutting-edge generative AI.

As a Global Account Executive based on the East Coast, you'll lead strategic engagements with some of the world's most influential R&D organizations, owning key relationships and driving multi-million-dollar partnerships.

With product-market fit secured, a rapidly expanding base of enterprise customers, and world-class scientific and technical talent, you'll play a central role in scaling Cradle's global impact.

Responsibilities
  • Drive business development across the global biotech and biopharma landscape, nurturing leads, identifying opportunities, and closing high-value enterprise deals.
  • Own strategic accounts, with a focus on large global players (including the top 10 pharma companies), and deliver millions in annually recurring revenue.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, ML, engineering, and customer success teams to shape proposals and execute on high-impact, technically complex projects.
  • Act as the voice of the market, surfacing customer feedback and strategic insights to directly inform product direction and roadmap priorities.
  • Build a powerful personal brand in the biotech and AI-for-science space, attending global events, engaging with scientists and executives, and establishing yourself as a trusted advisor in the field.
  • Shape how we sell, improving playbooks, sales processes, and materials as we scale with the freedom to reimagine how enterprise sales is done in a science-driven startup.

In a team that's thinking big and growing fast, there are few limits to this role. You'll be expected to operate with ownership, urgency, and creativity and rewarded accordingly.

Need to haves
  • Advanced degree in the life sciences (e.g. structural/molecular biology, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical sciences, biochemical engineering), or equivalent hands-on experience working with R&D teams in biotech or pharma.
  • 5+ years in B2B sales (ideally SaaS), with a proven track record of consistently exceeding quota (top 5%).
  • You're confident navigating highly technical topics and translating them into business value for R&D stakeholders and executives alike.
  • You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, are energized by building from scratch and confident writing the playbook, not waiting for one.
  • You listen intently, are innately curious, and learn with humility.


Nice to haves
  • Strong business network across biotech/pharma on the East Coast US.
  • Domain knowledge in machine learning or its applications in life sciences.
  • Prior experience at a (B2B) growth-stage startup.
  • Prior experience working as bioinformatician or wet lab scientist in an industrial or academic setting.

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