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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Founder39
C-Suite354
VP213
Sr Director622
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 1,231 active roles at last snapshot (804 Biotech/MedTech, 452 Pharmaceutical, 348 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 1,231)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| SVP Quality Systems System One The SVP Quality Systems will lead quality integration into operations, manage supplier performance, and oversee the Quality Management System. The role involves significant interaction with regulatory bodies and requires extensive experience in life sciences. VP | Canton, Massachusetts Onsite |
| Strategy Director - OpenData Veeva Systems Veeva Systems is hiring a strategy leader to rebuild the data foundation for the life sciences industry with OpenData. The role involves working across teams to drive results and transform the industry’s data foundation. Director | Germany - Frankfurt Remote |
| Vice President, Finance & Administration Rezo Therapeutics Lead financial and administrative functions at Rezo Therapeutics, focusing on strategic financial planning, fundraising, and operational infrastructure. VP | San Francisco, CA Onsite |
| Director, CV Brand Lead Bristol Myers Squibb The Director, CV Brand Lead will manage a cross-functional brand team, develop brand strategy, and ensure seamless team operations to achieve strategic imperatives. The role involves P&L management and performance management of team members. Director | Otemachi, Japan Unknown |
| Director, External Innovation, DPDS (Biology Technologies) Johnson & Johnson Lead external innovation efforts in biology technologies, focusing on partnerships and development of human-relevant models for pharmacology and translational sciences. VP | Cambridge, MA / South San Francisco, CA / La Jolla, CA / Spring House, PA Hybrid |
| Director, External Innovation Communications and Public Affairs Johnson & Johnson The role involves developing and executing communications strategies for Johnson & Johnson's business development and external innovation priorities. It includes translating complex science and M&A strategy into narratives for media and stakeholders. Director | New Brunswick, NJ; Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ Hybrid |
| Senior Director - Advanced Therapies Supply Chain Technology Johnson & Johnson The role involves leading the end-to-end technology ecosystem for Advanced Therapies Supply Chain, including strategy and architecture for cell therapy manufacturing and commercialization. Sr Director | Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America Hybrid |
| Account Partner - Quality Veeva Systems Drive growth across Life Sciences Contract Services, CMO, and Generics markets. Responsible for generating opportunities, winning new business, and building strategic customer relationships. VP | Denmark - Copenhagen Remote |
| Senior Director - Disclosures Strategy Veeva Systems Lead the adoption and growth of Veeva Disclosures within the Clinical Operations suite, focusing on clinical trial transparency and disclosure practices. Sr Director | Massachusetts - Boston Remote |
| Transcend: Transformation Director Johnson & Johnson Lead high-impact, cross-functional process simplification and performance improvement initiatives in support of the Transcend transformation at Johnson & Johnson. Director | Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, 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.
Remote mix