Scientific Director

About Prudentia Sciences

Prudentia Sciences is an AI-powered technology platform transforming how biopharma, biotech, and life sciences investors approach portfolio management, due diligence, and value and risk simulation. Our platform accelerates investment in breakthrough therapies by:

• Empowering biopharma to accelerate drug pipelines, maximize ROI, and achieve clinical and commercial success for greater patient impact
• Enabling strategic positioning of asset value during portfolio planning and dealmaking
• Equipping investors with data-driven insights to optimize capital allocation in drug asset transactions

Backed by GV (Google Ventures), Iaso Ventures, Virtue, McKesson, and SignalFire, we're on a mission to unlock the full potential of pharmaceutical R&D by empowering decision-makers with real-time, data-driven insights.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an exceptional Scientific Lead to drive the scientific strategy of Prudentia Sciences. This is an opportunity to shape how an AI platform thinks-influencing the scientific models, frameworks, and assumptions that power our product-while also engaging directly with our biopharma customers as a credible, trusted scientific advisor.

You will sit at the intersection of science, product, and commercial strategy. You will partner with our commercial teams on enterprise deals, serve as a scientific sounding board for clients navigating complex investment decision-making, and drive the scientific rigor of our platform. This role is for someone who has lived the end-to-end drug development process and wants to apply that expertise to build something transformative.

What You'll Do

Shape the Scientific Strategy of Our Platform

• Own the scientific integrity of the Prudentia platform-defining how scientific domains, risk frameworks, and value drivers are modeled and represented across therapeutic areas and development stages
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to translate scientific knowledge into platform features that reflect life sciences decision-making
• Develop and maintain scientific content and methodologies across key domains including preclinical and clinical development strategy, safety and toxicology, CMC, commercial, regulatory, and IP
• Ensure the platform stays current with evolving industry standards and emerging evidence, proactively identifying gaps and opportunities to enhance scientific credibility and value
• Build a scientific knowledge base that can scale: benchmarks, reference datasets, and content that powers the platform's recommendations and analyses

Serve as Scientific Advisor to Commercial Teams

• Serve as the resident scientific expert supporting Sales and Customer Success in client engagements, providing scientific credibility in conversations with executive-level pharma decision-makers across R&D, BD&L, and Portfolio Strategy
• Help customers and prospects understand how to use Prudentia to evaluate deal candidates and make investment decisions with greater confidence
• Lead scientific discovery sessions with prospective and existing clients to understand their pipeline challenges, identify use cases, and map Prudentia's capabilities to their strategic objectives
• Support development of scientific narratives, case studies, and proof-of-value materials that demonstrate the impact of the platform

Provide Scientific Support to Customers

• Act as a scientific resource for select strategic accounts, reviewing platform outputs with clients, contextualizing results within their therapeutic and competitive landscape, and helping them extract maximum scientific value from the Prudentia platform
• Support facilitation of scientific workshops, executive briefings, and onboarding sessions that build client confidence and deepen platform engagement
• Collaborate with the Customer Success team to proactively identify at-risk accounts or underutilized workflows where deeper scientific engagement could drive retention and expansion

Drive Scientific Thought Leadership

• Represent Prudentia Sciences at industry conferences, advisory boards, and scientific forums, building visibility and credibility in the biopharma and life sciences investment communities
• Develop white papers, educational content, and scientific commentary that position Prudentia as a trusted voice in AI-driven drug development decision-making
• Stay deeply connected to the pharma BD&L and portfolio management ecosystem
• Provide scientific input to fundraising narratives, investor materials, and strategic partnerships as needed

Who You Are

Essential Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD, or PharmD) in a relevant life science discipline
• 8+ years of experience spanning multiple stages of drug development-from discovery through commercialization-ideally with direct exposure to R&D and/or business development and licensing
• Proven ability to engage executive-level pharma stakeholders as a scientific peer
• Experience working at or closely with large pharma or biotech organizations in Search & Evaluation, Business Development, Portfolio Strategy, R&D Strategy, or Medical Affairs
• Strong scientific communication skills: able to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling narratives for both scientific and business audiences
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where priorities evolve and the ability to move quickly while maintaining scientific rigor is essential

Bonus points

• Direct experience in pharma BD&L-deal evaluation, term sheet negotiation, licensing agreements, or asset acquisition
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, decision intelligence tools, or advanced analytics in a pharma or life sciences context
• Therapeutic breadth across multiple indications (oncology, rare disease, CNS, immunology, etc.) and development stages (early, late, launch)
• Experience as a scientific advisor, consultant, or KOL to pharma companies or investment firms