Research & Development Leadership — CSO, CTO (R&D), VP R&D
More than 256 executive roles classified in Research & Development, with 16 new this week. Chief Scientific Officers, R&D leaders across biotech and tech, and Heads of Research who own the long-horizon technical roadmap.
Tier breakdown
4
Founder24
C-Suite98
VP49
Sr Director81
DirectorWhat this category covers
Research & Development covers Chief Scientific Officers, VPs of R&D, Heads of Research across biotech, pharma, materials, and deep-tech. The unifying signature: ownership of multi-year technical bets that aren't the day-to-day product roadmap.
Includes Chief Medical Officer roles in biotech/pharma when the seat carries scientific direction-setting, plus Heads of Applied Research at tech companies whose work feeds future products rather than current ones.
Across the 256 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 256)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Structured Credit Quant Modeler (CLO/ABS) ... premier $10B+ hedge fund A premier $10B+ hedge fund is seeking a Structured Credit Quant Modeler to join its Quantitative Research team. This role involves developing quantitative models, portfolio analytics, and scalable technology for CLO and ABS portfolios. VP | New York, NY Unknown |
| Statistical Science Director Green Key Resources Lead statistical strategies in pharmaceutical development, collaborate for regulatory success, mentor teams, and implement novel methodologies. Director | Gaithersburg, Maryland Onsite |
| VP, Research Scale AI Lead ML Research teams at Scale AI, focusing on frontier AI systems, safety, and policy research. Collaborate with engineering, product, and delivery teams to drive research and translate science into production-ready solutions. VP | New York City Metropolitan Area Unknown |
| Director, Real World Value and Evidence – Milvexian Johnson & Johnson Responsible for leading lifecycle medical adoption and market access scientific strategies, evidence generation, and dissemination plans for Milvexian. VP | Titusville, NJ, United States of America Hybrid |
| Research Director, Emergency Cash GiveDirectly Lead research strategies for Emergency Cash programs at GiveDirectly, a remote position. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Director, Institute for Photonics, Advanced Sensing and Quantum Technologies (IPAS-QT) Adelaide University Adelaide University seeks an academic leader to join IPAS-QT as Director, providing visionary leadership and strategic oversight in photonics, advanced sensing, and quantum technologies. VP | Adelaide, Australia Unknown |
| Director of Research and Development The Aerospace Corporation Lead strategic R&D direction for EW and radar systems, align projects with business goals, manage complex program portfolios, mentor engineers, perform systems requirements analysis, engage customers and business development, drive technical innovation and technology roadmaps, and serve as technical point of contact for special programs. VP | Lansdale, PA, USA Hybrid |
| Director of Strategic Insights & Analytics ... Atlantic Group The role involves leading enterprise analytics, business intelligence, and strategic decision-making for a high-growth consumer business. It requires strong leadership skills and experience in analytics, business intelligence, and strategy. VP | Boston, MA Hybrid |
| Director for the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Lead the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care, focusing on research, clinical integration, and community impact in depression care. Director | Dallas, Texas Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Research & Development classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for scientific-direction authority, IP/clinical-pipeline ownership, and external scientific stature. The classifier separates true R&D leaders from product-engineering managers using research-flavored titles. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Research & Development as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Research & Development is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Research & Development + Biotech & Life Sciences and you see CSOs and VPs of R&D at therapeutics and devices companies — not engineering managers in tech — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix