SF Office; NYC Office Hybrid Employment USD 200,000 – 250,000 / year

Abridge is hiring a Director, Life Sciences Strategy & Development

Requirements

  • 7+ years in life sciences BD, partnerships, or strategy, with meaningful time spent at a pharma, biotech, or health tech / data company. You’ve been in rooms with pharma executives and you know how those conversations work.
  • 0-to-1 experience. You’ve shaped something that wasn’t fully defined yet, and helped define it through customer discovery.
  • Deal track record. You can walk through the mechanics of complex deals you’ve personally owned – stakeholders, key terms, inflection points. You’ve negotiated NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs yourself.
  • Pharma fluency. You can seamlessly map a pharma buying process across commercial, medical affairs, R&D, market access.
  • Comfort with ambiguity. You’re good at running discovery, forming hypotheses, and updating quickly when you’re wrong.
  • Strong collaborator. You share what you learn, surface problems early, and don’t run ahead of the group.
  • Clear, direct communication. You write and speak well. You can take something complicated and make it simple without losing precision.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with real-world data, clinical data platforms, or health data partnerships (e.g., Flatiron, Tempus, IQVIA, Symphony).
  • Relationships with pharma digital health, medical affairs, or commercial innovation leaders.
  • Familiarity with ambient AI, clinical documentation, or point-of-care data.
  • Prior work building new business lines at growth-stage healthcare technology companies.

Additional Information

  • Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
  • Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
  • Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
  • Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
  • 401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
  • Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
  • Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
  • Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
  • Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
  • Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
  • Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
Required Skills
Clinical Documentation
About company
Abridge
Abridge is an AI-powered platform purpose-built for medical conversations, transforming patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and auditable AI, it maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth. The company sets industry standards for responsible AI deployment in healthcare.
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Department Operations, Finance, Finance and Strategy
Category management
Posted 6 days ago