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Chai Discovery is building a design suite for molecules using frontier AI models that learn biochemical structure and interaction. The company works with leading pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis to power drug discovery programs.
As the first marketing hire, you will own how Chai shows up in the world—brand, story, and all moments that shape perception. Your audiences span pharma executives, scientists, AI researchers, and engineers. Currently, founders handle most marketing themselves; you will raise the bar and take that load off them.
You will start by refreshing the company's identity and website, then layer on:
- Making key moments count at JPM, partner events, and AI/science conferences where Chai needs to stand out
- Building platforms that amplify reach for founders and researchers
- Making Chai legible and compelling to engineers and researchers you want to hire, including those without biology backgrounds
- Establishing playbooks to move faster without compromising quality
You are a brand builder with taste people trust and operational discipline to deliver. You are sophisticated enough to set creative direction and hold agencies accountable, yet hands-on enough to rewrite headlines, fix slides, chase vendors, or sweat details of events. Nothing is beneath you if it shapes perception.
You have likely been close to building at least one respected technology brand—perhaps as a founding marketer at a high-growth startup, leading brand/creative at a design-forward company, or running experiences at a firm known for them. Biotech or pharma experience is not required; genuine curiosity about science and ability to learn technical domains quickly are essential.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Brand-building experience with proven taste and operational discipline
- Track record building at least one respected technology brand
- Experience as founding marketer at high-growth startup, brand/creative leader at design-forward company, or experiences lead at top-tier firm
- Sophistication to set creative direction and manage agencies
- Hands-on capability across copywriting, design, event logistics, and detail execution
- Genuine curiosity about science and ability to learn technical domains quickly
- Biotech/pharma experience not required
