First Marketing Hire
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Own the brand, story, and marketing presence for an AI-driven drug discovery company as its first marketing hire.
About Chai Discovery
Chai builds the design suite for molecules. We train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction, so scientists can move faster and pursue targets that other methods cannot reach.
AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and Chai is at the forefront of this shift. Leading pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis are adopting our platform to power their drug discovery programs.
We value diverse perspectives and are ready to find greatness in unexpected places.
About the role
We are making our first marketing hire: someone we can trust to own how Chai shows up in the world, including the brand, the story, and the moments where people form an impression of us. Our audiences range from pharma executives and scientists to AI researchers and engineers. Our work is technical and easy to misunderstand.
Today our founders carry most of this themselves. We need someone who can raise the bar while taking that load off them.
You will start with the foundation: a refreshed identity and website. From there, you'll layer on:
making our key moments count at JPM, partner events, and the AI and science conferences where we need to stand out;
building platforms that give our founders and researchers more reach;
making Chai more legible and compelling to the engineers and researchers we want to hire, including those with no background in biology;
putting a playbook in place so we can move faster without lowering the bar.
About you
You are a brand builder with taste people trust and the operational discipline to deliver on it. You are sophisticated enough to set a creative direction and hold an agency to it, but hands-on enough to rewrite a headline yourself, fix a slide, chase an event vendor, or sweat the details of a dinner. Nothing is beneath you if it shapes how Chai is perceived.
You have likely been close to building at least one respected technology brand. You may have been a founding marketer at a high-growth startup, led brand or creative at a design-forward company, or run experiences at a firm known for them. Biotech or pharma experience isn't required; genuine curiosity about the science and the ability to learn a technical domain quickly are.
We offer
The opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect & promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly.
How we rate this
First Marketing Hire at Chai Discovery rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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- Tell me about a research question you investigated. What did you find?
- Tell me about a project where brand building was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where content strategy was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where communications was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where marketing was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Research, Brand Building, Content Strategy, Communications, and Marketing. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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