Founding Marketing Manager (AI/Drug Discovery)

Location: Soho, Central London; hybrid with 2 to 3 days in the office

Company

hirify.global is building an AI operating system for drug discovery that connects evidence, reasoning, and action across the drug lifecycle.

What you will do

• Build and own the hirify.global brand, including positioning, messaging, tone of voice, visual identity, website, social channels, recruitment materials, and investor materials.
• Develop thought leadership and scientific storytelling for scientists, R&D executives, pharma, biotech, CROs, and academic research institutes.
• Own the events strategy and deliver conference participation, executive dinners, scientific roundtables, webinars, customer workshops, speaking opportunities, and awards.
• Create content and demand-generation programs, including blogs, case studies, white papers, scientific explainers, video, social content, PR, media relations, and account-based marketing campaigns.
• Translate complex technical capabilities into value propositions, pitch decks, one-pagers, demo narratives, sales materials, and product-launch plans.
• Establish marketing foundations including tooling, CRM integration, analytics, reporting, budget management, KPIs, and performance reporting while shaping the future marketing team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of B2B marketing experience with a strong track record across brand, content, and events.
• Experience as an early or first marketing hire at a startup or scale-up, ideally in deep tech, AI, or SaaS, or marketing experience in life sciences, drug discovery, biotech, pharma services, or scientific software.
• Proven ability to build an early-stage brand through positioning, messaging, and visual identity for a sophisticated audience.
• Hands-on experience planning and delivering international conferences, executive dinners, and roundtables.
• Excellent writing and storytelling skills, including the ability to translate complex scientific and technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives.
• Ability to engage scientists and senior R&D stakeholders with credibility.
• Proactive problem-solving, a doer mindset, comfort with ambiguity and limited resources, and willingness to take ownership end-to-end.
• Builder’s mindset and passion for taking ideas from concept to reality in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to have

• Both startup or scale-up experience and exposure to life sciences or drug discovery.
• Degree, Master’s, or PhD in a life science-related discipline.
• Exposure to AI/ML products or marketing technical platforms for scientific audiences.
• Existing network across pharma, biotech, CROs, or the life sciences events circuit.
• Experience with HubSpot, Webflow, Figma, or similar marketing tools.

Culture & Benefits

• First dedicated marketing hire, working directly with the founders.
• Opportunity to shape the marketing function and grow into a leadership role.
• Fast-paced startup environment with limited resources, rapid iteration, and end-to-end ownership.