Abridge

Healthcare

Director,LifeSciencesStrategy&Development

$200–250k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Director, Life Sciences Strategy & Development at Abridge. Skills: Life sciences strategy, Business development, Deal structuring. Shape life sciences strategy. Identify high-value use cases”

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Hypothesis formation; Hypothesis updating

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years life sciences BD, 0-to-1 experience, Deal track record, Pharma fluency, Comfort with ambiguity, Clear, direct communication

Nice to Have

Experience with real-world data, Experience with clinical data platforms, Experience with health data partnerships, Relationships with pharma digital health, Relationships with medical affairs, Relationships with commercial innovation leaders, Familiarity with ambient AI, Familiarity with clinical documentation, Familiarity with point-of-care data, Prior work building new business lines

What You'll Do.

Shape life sciences strategy

Identify high-value use cases

Shape market offerings

Gather market intelligence

Inform product priorities

Lead discovery with pharma partners

Understand pharma workflows

Understand pharma data needs

Understand pharma buying processes

Understand pharma willingness to pay

Build partner pipeline

Manage partner pipeline

Cultivate relationships

Negotiate data use agreements

Navigate data constraints

Navigate compliance constraints

Navigate trust constraints

Understand what we can sell

Protect clinician trust

Execute product launches

Ensure ease of launch

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Strategy teams; Clinical teams; Commercial teams; Legal teams; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Executive communication; Direct communication

Full Job Description

ABOUT ABRIDGE Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The Role This is a zero-to-one role. You’ll be the first strategy and development lead for our life sciences business, responsible for figuring out which use cases are worth pursuing, what value the products will drive, and how to structure the first deals. You’ll work directly with Abridge’s product, strategy, clinical, and commercial teams. The right person has done life sciences business development and partnerships before – they’ve sat across the table from pharma executives, structured complex deals, and shaped what their company built based on what the market actually wanted. What You’ll Do - Shape the life sciences strategy. Identify the highest-value use cases, prioritize them, and shape what Abridge brings to market first. - Gather market intelligence from life sciences prospects, existing health system customers, and industry trends to inform product priorities. - Lead discovery with pharma partner

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