Biotech, Life Sciences & Pharma — executive roles
Three sub-sectors combined — Biotech/MedTech, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical — for a coherent research-and-therapeutics surface without artificial fragmentation.
Tier breakdown
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Founder79
C-Suite333
VP167
Sr Director377
DirectorWhat this category covers
This page spans three sub-sectors: Biotech / MedTech, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical. These three share hiring patterns, recruiter ecosystems, executive candidate profiles, and job board vocabulary. Presenting them on separate pages would duplicate content and fragment a unified market segment.
The line between "Life Sciences" and "Biotech" — or between "Biotech" and "Pharmaceutical" — is legitimately fuzzy in real job postings. A late-stage clinical-stage company might call itself Biotech on one job board and Life Sciences on another. The classifier resolves this internally and we intentionally show all three together.
With 961 active roles at last snapshot (685 Biotech/MedTech, 347 Pharmaceutical, 274 Life Sciences), this industry has concentrated executive volume at the CXO and VP tiers — particularly for science-domain C-suite roles like CSO, CMO, and Chief Research Officer that rarely appear in other sectors.
Sample Jobs (10 of 961)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director Regulatory Affairs - ACH Tyra Biosciences The role involves strategic regulatory leadership for a Skeletal Dysplasia program, requiring global regulatory strategy experience and leadership in a biotech environment. Sr Director | United States Remote |
| Vice President, Business Development and Alliance Management Xaira Therapeutics Lead the identification, development, negotiation, and execution of major strategic transactions for Xaira’s platform. VP | South San Francisco, California, United States Onsite |
| Senior Lab and Medical Director, Computational Pathology Guardant Health Responsible for clinical leadership in computational pathology, product development, and oversight of laboratory operations. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Director of Marketing Veeva Systems Lead global marketing for Veeva Safety, develop positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. Drive awareness, customer adoption, and business growth. Director | Remote Remote |
| Director, Antibody Discovery BigHat Biosciences Lead BigHat’s antibody discovery and display functions, manage team and technology strategy, and oversee operational execution for antibody identification and maturation. Director | San Mateo, CA Onsite |
| AVP, National, Key Account Management Johnson & Johnson Lead strategic engagement and account management for large hospital systems and group purchasing organization customers across J&J MedTech Surgery. VP | Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Remote (US) Hybrid |
| Director, Product Portfolio Management - Infectious Disease Labcorp Lead product and portfolio lifecycle strategy, forecasting, and roadmap development for infectious disease products. Apply disease-domain expertise and business acumen to drive profitability and portfolio performance. Director | Durham, NC or Burlington, NC Hybrid |
| Chief Operating Officer – Scale a Growing Nonprofit Animal Pain Research Institute Lead and scale APRI’s internal operations, design organizational structure, build functional teams, turn strategy into operating plans and budgets, remove bottlenecks, and partner with the Executive Director to align stakeholders and execute growth while preserving culture. C-Suite | Chicago, IL Hybrid |
| VP, Digital Infrastructure and Operations Guardant Health Lead enterprise infrastructure strategy at Guardant Health, focusing on cloud-first, AI-enabled platforms to support global operations in biotechnology and healthcare. VP | Palo Alto, CA Hybrid |
| Director, Communications & Public Affairs, US Dermatology and Rheumatology Johnson & Johnson Lead communications strategies for J&J's Immunology business, focusing on dermatology and rheumatology. Director | Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Biotech and life sciences classification uses domain-specific vocabulary that is rare outside this industry sector:
- Company and JD vocabulary. FDA and EMA regulatory references, clinical stage terminology (Phase I/II/III), IND filings, therapeutic area language (oncology, immunology, rare disease), and pipeline-stage descriptions all signal this industry. A company that "develops biologics" or "conducts preclinical studies" is unambiguously Biotech or Pharma.
- Science-domain C-suite overrides. Chief Scientific Officer, Chief Medical Officer (in a pharma/biotech context), and Chief Research Officer are classified as CXO-tier automatically — even when those titles don't appear in other industries' exec-tier lookups. Regulatory Affairs Director qualifies at Director tier when the JD confirms executive scope.
- Exec gate application. The same multi-stage pipeline applies. Individual contributors — Research Scientists, Principal Scientists — are excluded even at high compensation. See the AI Classification page for the full pipeline.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Biotech & Life Sciences surfaces executive roles at companies confirmed in this research-and-therapeutics sector — across all three sub-sectors.
Example: select Biotech & Life Sciences + CTO/Technology role type and your inbox narrows to technology leadership roles (CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Platform) at bio/pharma companies — not every CTO role on the platform, and not every Biotech role regardless of function. Both gates must pass.
The Director-tier in Biotech & Life Sciences is notable for Regulatory Affairs and Translational Medicine roles — highly specialized positions that rarely surface on general executive boards. Selecting Director tier + Biotech captures these alongside broader functional Director roles at therapeutics companies.
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