Director of Marketing – AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Apheris

Director of Marketing shaping adoption of Apheris’s AI-driven drug discovery platform. Owning scientific positioning, campaigns, product marketing, demand generation, and a two-person team.

Posted 8/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanyLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and executing comprehensive marketing strategies for technical products in the pharma R&D sector, with a strong focus on campaign management, team leadership, and effective communication. Proficient in leveraging AI tools and translating complex scientific concepts into compelling marketing narratives.

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5+ Years Marketing ExperienceEnd-to-End Campaign ManagementTechnical Product PositioningFluency With AI ToolsStrong Writing Ability

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Hard Skills

Campaign ManagementMarketing StrategyProduct MarketingContent CreationData Analysis

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipCollaborationCreative DirectionCommunication

Tools & Technologies

AI ToolsMarketing ChannelsMedia Relationships

Industry Keywords

Pharma R&DDrug DiscoveryBioinformaticsChemistryMachine Learning Products

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the marketing strategy, plan, budget, team, positioning, and narrative
Build end-to-end campaigns across press, scientific media, newsletters, podcasts, events, partner channels, social, and sales materials
Spearhead creative direction and run platform releases, network milestones, and partner announcements
Translate model results, benchmarks, and publications into technically robust claims
Lead product marketing for the platform and workflows, including narrative, pages, and pitch
Own the competitive picture and equip the commercial team with proof points, references, and benchmark write-ups
Build marketing formats for R&D leadership, including peer proof, third-party voices, invite-only round tables, and reference stories
Own event strategy, speaking opportunities, invite-only round tables, dinners, marketing channels, and media relationships
Set demand strategy for the named-account market and direct growth marketing across outbound, paid, and search
Own marketing priorities, plan, and budget; lead and grow a team of two
Engage freelancers, design studios, and specialists as needed
Report to the Senior Director, Commercial & Operations and collaborate with product and science leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of marketing experience in drug discovery or a sufficiently similar field
Experience marketing to pharma R&D
Experience running end-to-end campaigns and owning positioning for a technical product
Ability to read preprints or benchmark tables and assess what they prove
Strong writing ability; submission of a previously written content piece expected
Evidence of outlier performance
Experience in a fast-moving, remote-first company
Fluency with AI tools for work
Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have: experience in an early-stage or scale-up environment
Nice to have: a degree or working background in chemistry, structural biology, bioinformatics, or a related field
Nice to have: experience marketing AI or machine learning products into pharma R&D
Nice to have: familiarity with federated learning, privacy-enhancing technologies, or multi-party data collaboration
Nice to have: experience running co-marketing with large technology or pharma partners

Benefits

Comp & perks

Industry-competitive compensation, including early-stage virtual share options
Remote-first working, so you work where you work best, whether from home or a co-working space near you
Wellbeing budget
Mental health benefits
Work-from-home budget
Co-working stipend
Learning and development budget
Generous holiday allowance
Office Days at the Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x a year)
Plenty of room to grow personally and professionally