Engagement Manager

Medra

$120K — $150K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Technical background in Bioengineering, Biological Engineering, or related fields.
  • 3+ years of customer-facing experience in management or strategy consulting, BD in biopharma/biotech, or technical deployments.
  • 3+ years in a biological research lab (academia or industry) with fluency in scientific wet lab workflows.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex customer engagements with fast decision-making.
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration with diverse teams.
  • Customer obsession with a focus on understanding user needs.
  • Strong communication skills with an executive presence.

Responsibilities

  • Own the customer relationship from pre-sale through post-sale and expansion.
  • Embed with customer teams to assess key pain points and identify critical requirements.
  • Translate business objectives into a clear deployment roadmap with milestones and success criteria.
  • Dynamically plan between high-level strategy and execution-level details to forecast roadblocks.
  • Design, track, and optimize customer success metrics to support business cases.
  • Build relationships with executive sponsors and act as a strategic partner for their science and AI strategy.
  • Develop scalable playbooks for customer engagement and integrate user feedback into product development.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to change the way scientific research is conducted.
  • Fast-paced, creative, and collaborative work environment.
  • Significant equity ownership.
  • 401k plan.
  • Medical and dental insurance.
  • Unlimited PTO policy.
  • Weekday dinners provided.
Full Job Description
In this role, you will:
  • Own the customer relationship from pre-sale through post-sale, deployment, & expansion
  • Embed with customer teams to assess key pain points, understand scientific workflows, & identify critical requirements
  • Translate business objectives into a clear roadmap for deployment at our customers, mapping out milestones, dependencies, and success criteria
  • Dynamically move between high-level strategy and execution-level detail to plan and understand how day-to-day engineering activities map to overall goals, make complex technical trade-offs, and proactively forecast roadblocks
  • Operate with extreme ownership and set the pace for the team to ensure we ship on time
  • Design, track, and optimize customer success metrics to build the business case
  • Build deep relationships with executive sponsors and act as a strategic thought partner on their science and AI strategy
  • Develop scalable playbooks for customer engagement and integrate feedback into product development efforts
Let's talk if you have:
  • Technical background in Bioengineering / Biological Engineering / Chemical Engineering / Computational Biology / Biological Sciences / related field
  • 3+ years customer-facing experience in management or strategy consulting, BD in biopharma / biotech, technical deployments, or other strategic roles
  • 3+ years of experience working in a biological research lab, across academia or industry, and technical fluency of scientific wet lab workflows
  • A deep interest in the life sciences and a demonstrated eagerness to learn quickly
  • Track record of successfully leading complex, high-stakes customer engagements that relied on fast decision-making and tight coordination internally and externally
  • Experience thriving in cross-functional collaboration, effectively working with teams across Engineering, Product, & Sales
  • Customer obsession and a passion for deeply understanding user needs and delivering impactful solutions
  • A bias for action, solving immediate customer challenges while also focusing on scalable, repeatable processes
  • Strong communicator with executive presence & relationship-building capability,
  • Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value
  • Excel in ambiguous environments where there is minimal structure and no playbook
  • Low-ego, high agency, team-first, and first-principles mindset
Bonus points for:
  • Past experience working at early-stage, high-growth startups.
  • Past experience working with robotics, hardware, or software engineers.


This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate. Travel is required, up to 25-50%.

What we offer
  • An opportunity to change the way that scientific research happens
  • Fast-paced, creative, and collaborative work environment
  • Significant equity ownership
  • 401k
  • Medical insurance and dental Insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Weekday dinners

This position is 100% in-person. You must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.

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