Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 90 days ago

Senior Director, Virtual Biology Initiative

Biohub11 open roles

Pay
$244,000 – $305,000 a year
Where
Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
Work mode
Hybrid
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSenior Director, Virtual Biology InitiativeBiohub · Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Biohub's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Biohub postings stay open a median of 54 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.6%3 days
  3. 13.3%7 days
  4. 21.3%14 days
  5. 35.7%30 days
  6. 59.1%60 days
This job: posted 90 days ago

Biohub median: 54 days open

The posting

Biohub is the first large-scale initiative bringing frontier AI models, massive compute, and frontier experimental capabilities under one roof. We're building a general-purpose system to accelerate scientific discovery, integrating frontier AI models, biological foundation models, and lab capabilities, with the ultimate goal of curing disease. Our technology powers scientists around the world, translating AI capabilities into tools that accelerate research everywhere.

The Team

The Virtual Biology Initiative has the potential to transform biology by creating the data foundation needed for predictive AI models of living systems. Achieving this vision will require an unprecedented level of collaboration across the global scientific ecosystem.

The Opportunity

The Senior Director of the Virtual Biology Initiative is a strategic business and partnership leader who helps guide the long-term growth of VBI’s global ecosystem of collaborators.

This leader will help shape and execute the partnership strategy that connects leading research institutions, technology providers, industry, philanthropy, government, and other key stakeholders around a shared scientific vision. They will deepen long-term relationships, cultivate new strategic partnerships, and translate scientific ambition into sustained collaboration, while supporting the VBI community as new partners come on board.

Working closely with scientific, technical, legal, policy, and operational leaders, the Senior Director will coordinate across disciplines to ensure partnerships advance VBI’s priorities and contribute to a cohesive, scalable ecosystem. While scientific fluency is important, success in this role comes from exceptional relationship-building, strategic judgment, and the ability to align diverse organizations around common goals.

What You'll Do

As the Senior Director of the Virtual Biology Initiative, you will play a central role in strengthening and growing that ecosystem, bringing together the organizations, partnerships, and long-term collaborations needed to accelerate a new era of AI-enabled biology.

Lead strategic partnerships to accelerate the impact of the VBI ecosystem

  • Help lead VBI’s external partnership and ecosystem strategy, evolving it as the initiative grows in scale and complexity and as the field advances.
  • Deepen trusted relationships across research institutions, technology and platform providers, industry partners, philanthropies, government agencies, and other strategic collaborators.
  • Represent VBI externally and serve as a trusted ambassador for the initiative.
  • Own the full lifecycle of strategic partnerships, from initial engagement through negotiation, launch, and long-term relationship management.
  • Structure and negotiate complex, multi-party collaborations that advance VBI’s scientific and organizational objectives.
  • Cultivate executive-level relationships that enable enduring collaboration and sustained partner engagement.
  • Maintain a healthy, active portfolio of strategic partnerships that supports the long-term growth of the initiative.

Drive cross-functional collaboration and deepen engagement with the scientific community

  • Partner closely with scientific, technical, legal, policy, and operational teams to translate partnership opportunities into successful collaborations.
  • Align external partnerships with VBI’s evolving scientific priorities and organizational strategy.
  • Coordinate across multiple stakeholders to remove barriers, maintain momentum, and ensure successful execution of complex initiatives.

Help shape the future of the initiative

  • Contribute to governance models and collaborative frameworks that enable effective participation across a diverse global community.
  • Keep VBI’s partnership strategy aligned with the pace and direction of the field, anticipating shifts in technology, data, and scientific practice.
  • Bring an external perspective on emerging opportunities, partnerships, and ecosystem trends that can accelerate VBI’s goals.

What You'll Bring

We’re looking for a leader who combines exceptional business development skills with the ability to operate effectively in highly technical, mission-driven environments.

  • Significant experience (15+ years) in business development in the life sciences, including work across academia, industry, philanthropy, government, or research organizations.
  • A demonstrated track record of negotiating and closing complex, multi-party partnerships.
  • Experience working with scientific consortia, collaborative research programs, or large multi-institution initiatives is strongly preferred.
  • Scientific fluency that enables productive engagement with researchers and technical experts, even if you are not a practicing scientist.
  • Exceptional relationship-building, communication, and executive influencing skills.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives through influence and collaboration.
  • Strong operational discipline and the ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously.

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $274,000.00 - $343,000.00. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process.

This position may be eligible to participate in our discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with our total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.

Better Together

As we grow, we’re excited to strengthen in-person connections and cultivate a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week, with specific in-office days determined by the team’s manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring manager's discretion and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits for the Whole You

We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make all we do possible.

  • Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
  • Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
  • Funding for select family-forming benefits.
  • Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

If you’re interested in a role but your previous experience doesn’t perfectly align with each qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.

#LI-Hybrid

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Biohub's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Biohub's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Biohub's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.