Vice President, Scientific Partnerships
Remote · USContract$100–400K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Infera seeks a senior pharma R&D leader to own relationships with large research organizations and connect the company with pharma R&D, process, and data teams. The role involves opening conversations, shaping pilots, and developing lasting partnerships, while serving as a senior scientific voice with customers, partners, and investors. It starts as a part-time contract, with the option to grow into a full-time position.
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Full job description
About the role We're looking for a senior R&D leader from pharma to own our relationships with large research organizations. You'll be the connective tissue between Infera and pharma R&D, process and data teams: opening conversations, shaping pilots and making sure they turn into lasting partnerships. You'll also be a senior scientific voice for Infera with customers, partners and investors. This role starts as a part-time contract, with the option to grow into a full-time position. Key responsibilities
- Own Infera's pharma partnerships end-to-end, from first introduction through pilot to contract
- Open doors with R&D, process engineering, lab digitization and analytical teams, and lead executive-level conversations
- Frame Infera around what pharma cares about: reproducibility, data integrity, batch quality, compliance and risk
- Design pilots with clear success metrics that large organizations can approve, and guide us through security review, procurement and IP terms
- Build co-selling relationships with instrument makers and lab-buildout partners
- Bring field signal back to the founders on which workflows, instruments and data problems matter most in pharma labs
Minimum qualifications
- Have held a Senior Director, VP or equivalent role in research, process development, lab operations or R&D informatics at a pharma or large biotech company
- Have owned or influenced budget for lab software, automation or instruments, and know how those decisions get made
- Have a network of R&D, process and data leaders who would take your call
- Can tell real AI and automation capability from hype, and explain the difference to executives
Preferred qualifications
- PhD or equivalent scientific training
- Experience advising or working at an early-stage company
- Experience with GxP-regulated environments
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. Annual Salary (full-time equivalent): $100,000—$400,000 USD Logistics
- Commitment: Part-time contract to start, with the option to grow into a full-time role.
- Location: San Francisco, CA preferred. Remote within the US considered.
- Equity: Meaningful.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. We care more about what you've done than about checking boxes.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,374 open Research and Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–400K/yr
- California median$129–203K/yr137 salary ranges
- US median$118–170K/yr716 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $250K, is 49% above the California median midpoint ($168K) — in the top quarter of Research and Development salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 200 open Research and Development jobs in California and 1,374 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Applied Materials13 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Research and Development postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (901 postings).
- Education
- 729 of the 1,374 open Research and Development jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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