Director / Senior Director, New Product Planning (Life Sciences)

TL;DR

Director / Senior Director, New Product Planning (Life Sciences): Shaping the asset creation arm by translating scientific vision into molecules and real-world ventures with an accent on commercial viability and therapeutic modality matching. Focus on building quantitative models for market sizing, patient populations, and deal economics to inform go/no-go decisions.

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Company

hirify.global is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy by combining advanced AI models with proprietary instruments.

What you will do

• Source and evaluate new life sciences opportunities, screening for scientific differentiation and commercial fit with the company platform.
• Track therapeutic area trends, modality breakthroughs, and deal activity to generate actionable strategic views.
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas using biological rationale and competitive landscape analysis.
• Build and own quantitative models for market sizing, patient populations, and deal economics to inform investment decisions.
• Develop target product profiles and early commercial theses for candidate assets in collaboration with Science and Product teams.
• Shape deal structures and partnership constructs to translate commercial logic into viable terms.

Requirements

• 6-8+ years of experience in new product planning, commercial assessment, or business development within pharma, biotech, or life sciences VC.
• Strong scientific literacy in therapeutics, modalities, and disease biology.
• Demonstrated ability to align therapeutic modalities with disease areas based on biological fit and unmet need.
• Hands-on experience building market sizing, forecasting, and deal economic models from scratch.
• Active fluency in industry trends, pipeline movements, and deal activity across the pharma and biotech sectors.
• Must be based in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (PhD, MS) in life sciences or an MBA with a deep focus on life sciences.
• Established network of biotech operators, VCs, KOLs, and pharma BD leaders.
• Experience integrating AI tools into market research and competitor tracking workflows.
• Prior experience structuring partnership models, joint ventures, or NewCo formations.

Culture & Benefits

• High-velocity startup environment focusing on solving historic global challenges.
• Cross-disciplinary team structure operating at the interface of science, market, and deal structure.
• Culture guided by values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity.
• Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI-driven scientific discovery.