Partnership Manager, Life Sciences

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">About the role</h2> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Anthropic's Life Sciences team is looking for a Partnership Manager to be the day-to-day owner of our most strategic relationships - partnerships that pair Claude directly with biotech company formation and R&D. You'll be intimately involved in everything we do with our initial cohort of partners.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Each of these relationships has its own technical roadmap, its own metrics for success, and a wide set of internal and external stakeholders who need to be managed closely. Our initial partners are bringing real ambition and specificity to what they want to build with us — developing new skills, creating companies, and in some cases rethinking how biotech venture capital itself works. We need someone who can match that level of intensity and excellence as these partnerships kick off and move into execution over the next several months, owning each relationship end-to-end rather than negotiating an ambitious scope and then handing it off to a generalist GTM or Applied AI motion.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">You'll be the connective tissue between our external partners and Anthropic's Bio research team, working closely with our research team to make sure the skills being developed across partnerships are mapped, shared, and reused, and that learning flows in both directions.</p> <h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Key responsibilities</h2> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact and relationship owner for Anthropic's initial, and growing, set of partners, staying closely involved in the substance of each partnership rather than just its logistics.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own execution of each partnership's technical roadmap and success metrics, tracking progress against commitments and surfacing risks early.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Manage the full set of internal and external stakeholders for each relationship, including technical leads, business sponsors, and executives on both sides.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Act as the connective tissue between partners and Anthropic's Life Sciences research team, working closely with our research team to map the skills being developed across partnerships and ensure cross-functional learning.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Help shape and negotiate the specifics of each partnership's scope — co-development of new skills, company co-creation structures, and novel deal constructs — and make sure that ambition survives the handoff into delivery.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build the operating rhythms, documentation, and internal processes needed to run high-touch partnerships well today, while laying the groundwork for a more scalable PiaP model as the program matures.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Bring field signals back to the Life Sciences research team so that what we learn from individual partnerships improves our broader platform and approach.</li> </ul> <h2 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold">Minimum qualifications</h2> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Have experience managing complex, technical partnerships or business development relationships, ideally in biotech, pharma, or another scientifically intensive industry.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Have strong scientific or technical fluency and can hold your own in detailed conversations about biotech R&D roadmaps.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Have some experience with product development or product management, even if lightweight.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Are comfortable owning a relationship end-to-end — from negotiating scope to running day-to-day delivery — rather than handing pieces off to other teams.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Can manage multiple senior internal and external stakeholders simultaneously, with patience and clarity.</li> </ul> <h2 class="text-text-100…