Biotech, Life Sciences & Pharma — executive roles
Three taxonomy buckets combined — Biotech/MedTech, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical — for a coherent research-and-therapeutics industry surface without artificial fragmentation.
Tier breakdown
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Founder85
C-Suite253
VP139
Sr Director307
DirectorWhat this category covers
This flagship spans three taxonomy entries: Biotech or MedTech, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical. These three buckets 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 taxonomy 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 but this flagship intentionally surfaces all three together.
With 785 active roles at last snapshot (527 Biotech/MedTech, 316 Pharmaceutical, 228 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 785)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Accounting & Technical Accounting Orca Bio The Director will oversee key accounting and reporting activities, including financial reporting, general ledger accounting, and technical accounting matters. The role requires strong technical expertise and the ability to communicate with cross-functional stakeholders. Director | Menlo Park, CA Onsite |
| Senior Director, Agent Sales (West Coast) Medable The role involves leading sales and revenue for Agent Studio, market development, and cross-functional partnering. Requires 12+ years in business development and experience with AI/ML. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| VP, Regional Commercial Strategy, ONC Johnson & Johnson The VP, Regional Commercial Strategy (RCS) leads and executes commercial strategies for a Therapeutic Area with financial accountabilities. The role involves collaboration with stakeholders to ensure market-competitive performance and launch readiness. VP | Singapore, Singapore Onsite |
| Director, Clinical Quality Control Disc Medicine The Director of Clinical Quality Control will manage stability studies for small-molecule and biologics programs, ensuring compliance with ICH and GMP guidelines, and oversee the end-to-end supply of reference standards for quality control testing. Director | Massachusetts Hybrid |
| Vice President, Legal Profluent Lead and execute the company's legal strategy, focusing on complex business development transactions. Serve as a key partner to Business Development and corporate leadership. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Marketing - Digital (F/M/D) Sanity Group As Head of Marketing - Digital, you will be part of the Digital Tribe, developing a scalable, data-driven marketing strategy for Q-Commerce in pharmaceuticals. Responsibilities include strategic marketing, team leadership, performance marketing, influencer and affiliate strategy, CRM, and brand communication. VP | Berlin, Germany Unknown |
| Senior Director, Software Development Engineering Labcorp The role involves engineering leadership, delivery, and long-term evolution of software systems supporting laboratory operations and enterprise business capabilities. Sr Director | Durham, NC Hybrid |
| Product Management Director Salesforce The role involves defining product strategy for life sciences industry-specific products, working with cross-functional teams, and requires 8+ years of product management experience. Director | New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco Hybrid |
| Director, Real World Data Insights HealthVerity Provide healthcare data expertise throughout the contract/project lifecycle, translating client needs into data solutions using the largest healthcare data ecosystem in the US. Director | Philadelphia, PA, USA Hybrid |
| Partnerships Lead, Healthcare OpenAI OpenAI is hiring a Partnerships Lead to drive strategic initiatives across health, biology, medicine, and life sciences. The role involves identifying, evaluating, structuring, and scaling high-impact partnerships. VP | San Francisco Onsite |
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 underlying taxonomy entries.
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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