Life Sciences Operator, Lead

Join Anthropic as a Life Sciences Operator, Lead to accelerate drug discovery using AI. Ideal for an entrepreneurial operator with biotech experience.

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

• •Identify and prioritize the areas where AI can most meaningfully accelerate life sciences research
• •Turn promising scientific ideas into concrete, well-scoped efforts and see them through with speed and ownership
• •Translate ambiguous scientific questions into structured, testable plans with clear milestones
• •Work hands-on with Claude and Claude Science to explore hypotheses, design and analyze research, and show what's newly possible
• •Partner across research, product, and go-to-market to shape strategy and bring scientific work to life
• •Serve as a trusted scientific voice, communicating clearly with both technical and business audiences

• •The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
• •Annual Salary: $300,000 — $320,000 USD
• •Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• •Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
• •We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

• •A strong scientific and operating background with direct experience taking ideas from concept to results in a company setting; MD/PhD not required
• •Have grown up professionally in a multidisciplinary role at a high-growth life sciences company or a leading science-focused investment or venture firm
• •Previously founded or joined as a founding team member of a biotechnology startup
• •Excellent scientific taste and entrepreneurial instinct — a track record of identifying and capitalizing on compelling opportunities before they are obvious
• •The wherewithal to execute independently; you are senior enough to have real judgment, but hands-on enough to build things yourself
• •A unique blend of scientific and business literacy, and are comfortable moving fluidly between the two

• •7+ years of direct experience taking ideas from concept to results in a company setting
• •Comfort navigating ambiguity and building in a fast-moving, frontier environment