Associate Director / Director, Alliance Management

Company: Genesis Therapeutics Inc.
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 6, 2025

Job Description:

The Associate Director / Director, Alliance Management is a high-impact role that will help oversee critical and strategic collaborations at Genesis, including existing alliances with major pharmaceutical companies, with a particular focus on AI-focused platform partnerships. This role will also support new and existing technology collaborations related to the GEMS platform, and may provide support to various other strategic initiatives.This role will report to the Vice President, Business Development and may be based at Genesis Therapeutics' physical offices in Burlingame CA or San Diego (hybrid schedule).What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Alliance management
• Act as alliance manager for Genesis's AI-focused research collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies
• Own communication with key external stakeholders, support Genesis project teams, and drive preparations for all joint research governance meetings
• Technology collaborations
• Act as business lead on critical technology and AI infrastructure deals to support GEMS platform capabilities and leading computational research at Genesis
• Examples include major cloud computing contracts, GPU infrastructure for AI model scaling, data generation and other complementary technologies
• Strategic initiatives
• Support Genesis corporate communications and media strategy, interfacing directly with Genesis's external communications agency
• Provide strategic perspectives on GEMS platform roadmap based on insights from partnerships with major pharmaceutical and technology companiesWhat you'll bring
  • PhD in chemistry, life sciences, machine learning, or similar computational field, with focus on drug discovery applications
  • 6-8+ years of industrial experience across biotech / pharmaceutical operating roles, and/or life sciences consulting roles serving major pharmaceutical companies
  • Experience operating in a fast-paced environment at the intersection of science and business (e.g., top-tier strategy consulting, venture-backed biotech startups)
  • Deep expertise in preclinical small molecule drug discovery (e.g., medicinal chemistry at a major pharmaceutical company, or similar exposure to molecular drug design)
  • Strong project management experience involving cross-functional scientific teams
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally, if required, approximately 10% time
  • Excellent Powerpoint, presentation, Excel modeling, communication and listening skillsWe'd be thrilled if you have experience with
    • Alliance management within a fast-paced biotech company, or similar external-facing roles, particularly if involved in discovery collaborations with top pharma partners
    • Complex transactions and licensing contracts in life sciences and technology
    • Emerging AI technologies and other computational screening tools for discovery of small molecule drug candidates
    • AI technology landscape, including cloud computing and technology infrastructure providers
    • Financial and budgetary analysis of strategic alliances for corporate decision making and long-range planning
    • Corporate communications in life sciences / technologyWhat we offer
      • Competitive Pay
      • Stock Option Eligibility
      • 401(k) Plan
      • Open PTO Policy
      • Paid Company Holidays
      • Free lunch and snacks at our offices
      • Health Care Plan, including Medical, Dental, and Vision, fully covered for the employees is unifying AI and biotech to discover novel and breakthrough treatments for patients with severe and devastating conditions. Genesis was founded on groundbreaking molecular ML research and since has established itself as the industry leader in AI for small molecule drug discovery. Our team of accomplished biotech leaders and expert drug hunters joins forces with deep learning researchers and software engineers who are pioneering predictive and generative AI technologies for molecules.Our team has created the industry's most advanced molecular AI platform called GEMS (Genesis Exploration of Molecular Space), to accelerate and optimize small molecule drug discovery and to enable the discovery of novel first-in-class and best-in-class small molecule drugs for challenging and/or undruggable targets.The company has leveraged GEMS to build an internal pipeline with multiple programs against high-value targets, including data-poor and canonically undruggable targets where GEMS is uniquely advantaged. In addition, Genesis has signed AI-focused platform collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies, including most recently (Feb 2025) and (Sept 2024).We raised a $200M series B in August 2023, and have raised over $300M in funding from top technology and biotech investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Rock Springs Capital, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Radical Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA's VC arm), BlackRock, and Menlo Ventures.Genesis is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, with a fully integrated laboratory in San Diego. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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