Ataraxis AI
Head of Business Development
$100K–$300K
New York (Remote Possible) · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
About the job
Build and lead Ataraxis AI’s pharmaceutical partnership business, identifying opportunities for its clinical AI models and taking deals from outreach through signature.
What you'll do
- Identify pharma targets, map decision-makers, conduct outreach, and negotiate agreements.
- Develop applications of Ataraxis technology for pharma pipelines and communicate them to scientific, clinical, and business audiences.
- Build sponsor relationships, relay pharma needs to internal teams, and coordinate deal scope, terms, pipeline, and forecasts.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in pharma and/or diagnostics business development, either within pharma or at a diagnostics or technology company selling into pharma.
- Documented experience leading or co-leading relevant pharma deals, or evidence of being pivotal to a deal’s completion.
- Built a pharma partnership pipeline from scratch or selected and funded partnerships from the pharma side.
- Fluency in pharma partnership decisions and active relationships across large and mid-cap oncology pharma.
Nice to have
- MD, PhD, PharmD, NP, or a master’s degree in a related life sciences field.
Pay
$100K – $300K USD base salary; equity offered, amount not stated
AI focus
Develop and commercialize pharma partnerships applying prognostic and predictive AI models to companion diagnostics, biomarker discovery, patient stratification, and trial rescue.
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