(Senior) Director, Portfolio Strategy, Life Sciences

Highlights

• Shape Origins ventures translating scientific vision into real-world molecules.
• Match therapeutic modalities to disease areas to define asset bets.
• Build market sizing and deal models guiding go/no-go venture decisions.

What they offer

• Competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits including bike share memberships
• Company subsidized lunch program

Ideal candidate

A commercially-minded life sciences strategist with 6-8+ years in new product planning who thrives in ambiguity and loves turning early science into ventures at the intersection of biology, markets, and deals.

Requirements

• 6-8+ years in new product planning, commercial assessment, asset strategy, or business development inside a pharma, biotech, or life sciences investor setting, with a track record of shaping go / no-go calls on early assets
• Strong scientific literacy in life sciences (therapeutics, modalities, disease biology); able to engage substantively with Science and external KOLs and translate scientific nuance into commercial implications
• Demonstrated ability to match therapeutic modalities to disease areas, with a clear point of view on where biological fit, unmet need, and competitive landscape converge
• Hands-on modeling experience: market sizing, patient population, forecasting, deal economics; comfortable building models from scratch and defending assumptions
• Active fluency in industry trends, pipeline movement, and deal activity across pharma and biotech
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to distill complex commercial and scientific analyses into crisp recommendations for senior leadership
• Comfort operating in high ambiguity with limited oversight; biased toward building structure where none exists