Business Operations

Chai Discovery is building AI foundation models to enable drug discovery projects for biotech and pharma. The company is backed with significant capital by top-tier investors, such as OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Dimension, Conviction, Lachy Groom, Amplify, and many more.

The company recently came out of stealth by launching their first model, Chai-1, the world's most performant model for molecular structure prediction. For example, on the Posebusters benchmark, Chai-1 achieves a success rate of 77%, while AlphaFold-3 from Google DeepMind achieves 76%.

Chai is operated by a highly experienced founding team, who are well known in the AI community for seminal research accomplishments at top AI labs. The team have run AI departments at top AI x Biology organizations, have exited a past company via IPO, and sold AI technologies to multiple top 10 pharma companies.

Chai Discovery is seeking an all-round business athlete to play a crucial role in company building. You will work closely with the founders and our leadership team on a wide range of tasks to scale the business, keep it running smoothly and execute on key initiatives.

This role is ideal for a dynamic, resourceful and scrappy self-starter who can operate at all levels, and is unafraid to dive headfirst into a workload that will change week by week. You should be equally comfortable working on high-level company strategy, sourcing customers, writing a product requirements doc, putting together a board deck, negotiating with vendors, managing the company finances, and more. You should have a “no task too big or too small” mindset, be comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to pick up new skills on the job.

• Company management: setting company goals, preparing OKRs, project management, preparing board materials, onboarding new hires

• People: managing payroll, HR / employee experience, coordinating interviews, working with external legal counsel to secure visas

• Customers: sourcing new customers, onboarding customers onto the product, reviewing contracts (in partnership with external counsel), building pricing frameworks, negotiating pricing, handling customer support, coordinating with the engineering team on feature requests and bug fixes

• Finance: budgeting, reviewing financial statements, working with external vendors (such as accountants, fractional CFOs etc.)

• Vendor management: sourcing counterparties, negotiating rates with vendors, onboarding new vendors

• Events: planning dinners, conference sessions, offsites, and so forth

• Sales: establishing the company brand, presenting us at conferences and industry events, managing social media and the company’s public presence, refreshing our brand identity

• Undergraduate and/or graduate degrees, ideally in a STEM field

• 5+ years in business operations, project management, consulting, investment banking, or similar roles, with a proven track record of managing diverse and cross-functional tasks.

• Demonstrated ability to set and track company goals, OKRs, and manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

• Cross-functional experience: exposure to multiple domains such as finance, HR, product management, and customer relations

• Exceptional soft skills, with a track record of building strong relationships with customers, vendors, and internal teams.

• Nice to have:

  • Prior experience in a deeply technical domain (especially biotech) is a positive but not a strict requirement

  • Prior experience scaling a startup from 10 -> 100 people

• Highly engaging work at the frontier of AI-driven drug discovery that will fundamentally change how new drugs are created.

• Opportunity to work with world-renowned leaders in the AI x biology ecosystem, contributing to impactful advancements in the field.

• Highly competitive salary and equity package.

• Comprehensive healthcare and wellness benefits.

• Continuous learning and career growth opportunities.

• Collaborative and supportive startup culture.

• A high-energy team committed to increasing the efficiency of creating new medicines and positively impacting millions of lives.

Chai Discovery, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply.