# Corporate Development Lead, Life Sciences

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $425,000-$600,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Corporate Development leader to drive strategic transactions in life sciences and biotech. You will source and execute acquisitions, investments, and partnerships with AI-native life sciences companies, partnering with Anthropic's leadership, research, and product teams.

The ideal candidate combines deep life sciences domain knowledge with technical fluency in AI and a record of closing complex transactions. You will define and execute Anthropic's corporate development strategy in life sciences, covering acquihires, tuck-in acquisitions, minority investments, and strategic partnerships.

Key responsibilities:

- Define and execute Anthropic's corporate development strategy in life sciences

- Build and maintain a target pipeline across AI-native companies

- Lead end-to-end transaction processes

- Partner with research, product, engineering, and go-to-market teams

- Assess build/partner/buy tradeoffs and competitive dynamics

- Structure and negotiate complex deals

- Build financial models and valuation analyses

- Drive post-transaction integration

- Build relationships with founders, life sciences and healthcare VCs, pharma and biotech corporate development teams, and academic research institutions

- Present strategic recommendations to executive leadership and the board

Minimum qualifications:

- Experience leading complex M&A, investment, or partnership transactions

- Understanding of the drug development lifecycle

- Strong technical fluency in AI and software

- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills

- Ability to engage credibly with scientists, engineers, executives, and regulators

Preferred qualifications:

- 8-12 years of experience across corporate development, investment banking, or investing

- Advanced degree in life sciences (PhD, MD, PharmD) or an MBA

- Experience with AI/ML applied to biology, chemistry, or clinical operations

- Established network among life sciences founders, healthcare VCs, and pharma business development leaders

The annual compensation range for this role is $425,000-$600,000 USD.

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.

## Skills

### Required
- M&A
- investment
- partnership
- AI
- life sciences
- financial modeling

### Nice to have
- AI/ML
- biology
- chemistry
- clinical operations
- networking

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