Director of Marketing, AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Remote (UTC +/- 2 hrs)

Full-time

Permanent employee

About Apheris

Apheris is an AI drug discovery company. We build federated data networks and customizable AI models across co-folding, binding affinity, ADMET, in vivo PK, and antibody developability. Our position is one no one else holds: models trained on proprietary pharma data that no public model can reach, and a platform that puts them to work inside real drug programmes. We already work with 15+ pharmaceutical companies, including 9 of the top 20.

We are now looking for a Director of Marketing to own how the market understands that.

About the role

Our market is named and scientific: a few hundred people across roughly 100 priority accounts, nearly all of them scientists: Chief Scientific Officers and Heads of R&D deciding whether to put part of their pipeline through our AI, and the computational drug discovery, chemistry and structural biology leaders who will test our models against their own targets first. Reach and impressions tell you almost nothing here. What matters is whether those people believe the claim, and whether a partner will put their name beside ours.

You will own marketing: the strategy, the plan, the budget, and a team of two covering brand and communications, and revenue operations. You will also do the work. Write the argument, brief the designer, sit in the customer call, ship the campaign. At our size, a marketing leader who only directs is one who slows everything down.

Credibility is the constraint here, not reach. Our buyers check claims against their own data, so the proof has to sit in benchmarks, publications and named results rather than in adjectives. This field produces a lot of marketing fluff and scientists spot it instantly. You will be judged on whether the industry’s understanding of us changed, not on how much you published. If that is the reason you want the job rather than the reason you hesitate, we should talk.

You will report to our Senior Director, Commercial & Operations, and work closely with product and science leadership, who will hold you to their standard. You are the first senior marketing hire here. What you build becomes how this company markets itself, and the team grows around it.