Business Development Manager (Life Sciences)
Perceptic · London, GB
Bio & Science AIonsitejunior$66k–$86k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own top-of-funnel for an AI platform powering drug discovery across pharma.
- Join enterprise deals from month one alongside founders and senior seller.
- Run first calls, own key conferences and feed buyer reactions to product weekly.
What they offer
- Base salary with OTE and variable tied to qualified meetings and pipeline
- Kicker on closed revenue sourced plus equity as an early employee
- Guaranteed proportion of variable in first three months while ramping
Ideal candidate
Early-career seller with 1-4 years hitting targets who is fascinated by life sciences and wants to break into enterprise sales. Persistent, sharp writer and researcher who prefers quality outreach over high-volume dialling.
Requirements
- 1-4 years in business development, sales development or commercial role with a target
- SDR/BDR experience at a scientific software, data or AI company selling into pharma or biotech
- Life sciences degree in biology, chemistry, biomedical sciences, pharmacology or similar
- Experience at a CRO, pharma or biotech in customer-facing or scientific support role
- Hands-on use of AI tools with view on where they helped and fell short
- Second European language, ideally German
- hiring process
- Intro call with Head of Talent (30 min) > conversation with Founder & CEO on sales and market (45 min) > practical target-account exercise > meet the founders (45 min) > references; run in under two weeks.
Lab profile
About Perceptic
AI operating system for drug discovery connecting evidence, reasoning and action across drug lifecycle.
What they build
- AI operating system for drug discovery
- Unified intelligence layer for drug lifecycle
Known for
- Founded by Palantir operators
- Built AIP for Life Sciences
- Production-grade enterprise AI deployment
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