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. The platform accelerates investment in breakthrough therapies by empowering biopharma to accelerate drug pipelines, enabling strategic positioning of asset value during portfolio planning and dealmaking, and equipping investors with data-driven insights to optimize capital allocation.
Backed by GV (Google Ventures), Iaso Ventures, Virtue, McKesson, and SignalFire, Prudentia is 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 a Scientific Lead (Scientific Director) to drive the scientific strategy of Prudentia Sciences. This role sits at the intersection of science, product, and commercial strategy and will influence the scientific models, frameworks, and assumptions that power the product while engaging directly with biopharma customers as a trusted scientific advisor.
What You'll Do
Shape the Scientific Strategy of the Platform
- Own the scientific integrity of the Prudentia platform, defining how scientific domains, risk frameworks, and value drivers are modeled across therapeutic areas and development stages.
- Partner 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 domains including preclinical and clinical strategy, safety and toxicology, CMC, commercial, regulatory, and IP.
- Maintain currency with evolving industry standards and identify opportunities to enhance scientific credibility and value.
- Build scalable scientific knowledge bases: benchmarks, reference datasets, and content that power platform recommendations.
Serve as Scientific Advisor to Commercial Teams
- Support Sales and Customer Success in client engagements, providing scientific credibility with executive-level pharma decision-makers across R&D, BD&L, and Portfolio Strategy.
- Lead scientific discovery sessions with clients to map Prudentia’s capabilities to their strategic objectives and support development of scientific narratives, case studies, and proof-of-value materials.
Provide Scientific Support to Customers
- Act as a scientific resource for strategic accounts, review platform outputs with clients, contextualize results, and help extract scientific value from the platform.
- Facilitate scientific workshops, executive briefings, and onboarding sessions, and collaborate with Customer Success to identify at-risk accounts or underutilized workflows.
Drive Scientific Thought Leadership
- Represent Prudentia at industry conferences, advisory boards, and scientific forums to build visibility 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.
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, ideally with 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 and comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
Bonus points
- Direct experience in pharma BD&L (deal evaluation, term sheet negotiation, licensing, 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) and development stages.
- Experience as a scientific advisor, consultant, or KOL to pharma companies or investment firms.
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