Research Partnerships Lead

LatchBio

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in partnerships or sales within biotech or AI fields.
  • Strong technical understanding of AI concepts like gradient descent and reinforcement learning.
  • Ability to engage with biologists and AI researchers effectively.
  • Experience working directly with scientists, ideally in a role interfacing with them.
  • Desire to build interpersonal relationships rather than conduct transactional sales.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct outreach and map organizations to understand their needs.
  • Build meaningful relationships to offer valuable partnership opportunities.
  • Design unique partnership scopes based on the specific needs of each prospective partner.
  • Ensure customer success by focusing on long-term provider relationships.
  • Operate with high agency, tackling tasks independently and identifying solutions proactively.

Benefits

  • 100% premium covered Blue Shield platinum health plan.
  • Complimentary meals provided (lunch and dinner).
  • Waterfront office in Mission Bay, San Francisco.
  • Flexible hours as long as you attend meetings.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Partnerships Lead, you will form relationships with biologists and AI researchers who are interested in deploying intelligence across pharma, biotech, or academia.

Day to day you will own the full partnership: outreach, relationship building, scoping, sales, pilot, and customer success.

You'll work directly with the Co-Founder and CEO, Alfredo, who leads the partnerships team.

Your work will shape most conversations and direction at Latch.

Who You Are

This role is for someone that is technical, someone that can talk to scientists about their work. Someone that understands AI deeply. Ideally you've done AI research before, it doesn't have to be the modern kind of massive transformers but you can explain gradient descent and reinforcement learning, and have good intuition for what ideas are being used in the field.

Ideally you also know biology, again you don't need a PhD or even a formal background, but you should have either worked in this industry for a few years in a role where you had to interface with scientists.

You want to build relationships, not do transactional sales.

You want to grow to one day lead a team. But are okay rolling up your sleeves and doing the work.

What You'll Own

Typical areas of work:
  • Outreach and org mapping - understand the space by understanding the teams of people.
  • Relationship building - find how to be helpful to the people you want to partner with.
  • Partnership creation - each one is unique and needs to be designed around real needs.
  • Customer Success - we are obsessed with being our partners' best provider.
  • Head of Sales - you can lead yourself with high agency and one day lead a team.

You need to be high agency. There is not much mentorship at Latch, everyone just figures it out. If given a task you are expected to identify the blockers, figure out how to unblock yourself, and come back with significant progress.

Compensation & Logistics
  • High base, but the big money comes from commission
  • You'll work very closely with Alfredo, the CEO and Head of Sales, day to day.
  • Most people work 60+ hour weeks.
  • We work strictly in-person in Mission Bay, SF, Monday to Friday.
  • Hours are pretty flexible as long as you are here for meetings.
  • 100% premium covered Blue Shield platinum health plan.
  • Free meals (lunch and dinner).
  • Waterfront office in Mission Bay, San Francisco.

Location: San Francisco, CA. In-person.

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