Account Executive, Life Sciences

Goodfire
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: SalesSkills: ["Communication","Negotiation","Relationship building","Strategic thinking","Presentation"]

Account Executive for Life Sciences responsible for owning and closing strategic AI-enabled partnerships with pharma, biotech, and research organizations. You will define and execute end-to-end strategic accounts, translate scientific needs into commercial opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to pilot and expand high-impact engagements in life sciences, contributing to Goodfire’s go-to-market motion.

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Account Executive, Life Sciences

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Job Summary

Account Executive for Life Sciences responsible for owning and closing strategic AI-enabled partnerships with pharma, biotech, and research organizations. You will define and execute end-to-end strategic accounts, translate scientific needs into commercial opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to pilot and expand high-impact engagements in life sciences, contributing to Goodfire’s go-to-market motion.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Sales

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own strategic Life Sciences sales cycles: build pipeline, run discovery, navigate technical and executive stakeholders, negotiate agreements, and close new partnerships.
  • •Develop rigorous account strategy: identify where Goodfire can create value across pharma, biotech, research organizations, AI-native life sciences companies, and adjacent scientific teams.
  • •Translate scientific and technical needs into commercial opportunities: understand customer workflows, model development challenges, validation requirements, and internal buying dynamics.
  • •Partner with the Field Team: shape pilots, technical scopes, success criteria, and expansion paths that demonstrate real impact for life sciences customers.
  • •Bring market signal back to the company: share customer needs, objections, competitive context, and emerging use cases with product, research, marketing, and leadership.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience closing complex sales cycles with technical, scientific, or research-oriented buyers and a track record of delivering strategic partnerships.
  • •Strong discovery, commercial judgment, and ability to connect a technical product to a concrete customer problem.
  • •Ability to learn AI/ML and life sciences concepts quickly and communicate credibly with researchers, engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and scientific leaders.
  • •High agency with excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable operating without a fully mature sales playbook.
  • •Experience selling AI/ML, data platforms, scientific software, infrastructure, developer tools, or enterprise products into life sciences organizations (preferred).
Experience:Life sciencesAI/MLEnterprise software
Skills:CommunicationNegotiationRelationship buildingStrategic thinkingPresentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIMLData platformsPilot programsCloud

Company Brief

Goodfire
Goodfire builds AI-powered developer and business tools to help teams generate, integrate, and deploy custom large-language-model applications. Their platform focuses on simplifying prompt engineering, model orchestration, and secure data connectivity for enterprise AI workflows.
Industry: Developer Tools
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