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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Founder113
C-Suite423
VP233
Sr Director475
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 1,249 active roles at last snapshot (868 Biotech/MedTech, 457 Pharmaceutical, 354 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 1,249)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Information Technology Olema Oncology The Vice President of Information Technology will serve as Olema’s senior technology leader, responsible for strategy, security, and operations of the global IT function. VP | San Francisco, California Onsite |
| Executive Director, Asset Team Lead Recursion Pharmaceuticals Lead strategic positioning of assets in drug discovery and development, focusing on oncology and immunology/inflammation. Requires PhD and 10+ years of experience. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| VP, Marketing Science & Analytics GoodRx Lead a marketing science team to centralize customer segmentation, programmatic media, audience strategy, marketing analytics, BI, attribution, ad operations, privacy/compliance, and martech. Build data products and automation for scalable media activation, provide reporting and insights for stakeholders and ELT, and collaborate cross-functionally to align measurement and marketing strategy. VP | Remote Remote |
| Vice President, Quality Assurance Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Responsible for establishing and maintaining the global pharmaceutical quality system and providing independent Quality oversight across the product portfolio and external GxP network. VP | Cary, NC Hybrid |
| Director, Business Development Route 92 Medical The Director of Business Development will identify, evaluate, negotiate, execute, and manage strategic transactions to advance Route 92 Medical's portfolio and growth objectives. The role involves leading the full transaction lifecycle and building relationships with partners. Director | San Diego, CA, US Unknown |
| Head of Chemistry | Targeted Protein Degradation ... Page Executive Lead medicinal chemistry and discovery chemistry strategy across multiple drug discovery programs, focusing on targeted protein degradation and molecular glue discovery. VP | China Unknown |
| Director, PM Systems & Infrastructure Bristol Myers Squibb The role involves designing program management systems and infrastructure, focusing on process design, governance, training, and change management. Director | Princeton, NJ, US Hybrid |
| Sr. Director, Executive Recruiting Pfizer Leads Pfizer’s global executive recruiting strategy for VP-and-above roles. Oversees executive searches, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and partnerships with executive search firms. Sr Director | New York City, NY, USA Hybrid |
| Director, Contracts Counsel MBX Biosciences The Director, Contracts Counsel will provide legal support and advice on a broad range of contracts and agreements, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. VP | Unknown Unknown |
| Head Of Pharma Engineering (m/w/d) ... international engineering and plant construction group Building an engineering site for process plant construction, leadership role with development opportunities, managing complex engineering and plant construction projects. VP | Penzberg, Bayern 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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