First Marketing Hire

Chaidiscovery
San Francisco office, US
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level marketing professionals who can build and own a brand in a technical domain.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in shaping technology brands and a track record of creative leadership
    — “You have likely been close to building at least one respected technology brand.”
  • Individuals who thrive in startup environments and can take ownership of brand perception
    — “We need someone who can raise the bar while taking that load off them.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of involvement in both strategic and tactical brand-building efforts
    — “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.”
  • Candidates must be prepared to work closely with scientists and AI researchers, not just marketing teams
    — “Our work is technical and easy to misunderstand.”

How to stand out

  • Showcase ability to distill complex technical ideas into accessible messaging
    — “making Chai more legible and compelling to the engineers and researchers we want to hire, including those with no background in biology.”
  • Emphasize hands-on contributions to brand identity and event execution
    — “You are hands-on enough to rewrite a headline yourself, fix a slide, chase an event vendor, or sweat the details of a dinner.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • building a strong brand identity
  • increasing brand awareness
Typical background
experience in marketing and brand managementbackground in technology or science

Skills & requirements

Required

Brand BuildingDigital MarketingEvent ManagementContent Creation

Preferred

Biotech Industry KnowledgeAI Research

Stack & domain

Brand BuildingOperational DisciplineMarketingBrand Management

About the role

Original posting from Chaidiscovery via Ashby

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 https://endpoints.news/eli-lilly-chai-discovery-sign-ai-software-deal/, Pfizer https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2026/06/04/why-pfizer-and-eli-lilly-are-betting-on-this-13-billion-ai-drug-discovery-startup/, and Novartis https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/novartis-partnership 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.

Source: Chaidiscovery careers (Ashby)

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