Life Sciences Operator, Lead

<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">As part of our growing investment in building capabilities for drug discovery and development, we're looking for an exceptional biotech operator to help accelerate research in these areas. Our north star is to speed up progress in drug development by an order of magnitude, and this role is central to that goal: bringing sharp scientific judgment and operational expertise to identify where AI can have the greatest impact, and the drive to turn those insights into real results.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">This role is for an entrepreneurial operator with proven hands-on experience generating and translating therapeutic hypotheses in a biotech setting. You should be self-directed and multi-disciplinary - equally comfortable shaping the strategic direction of our life sciences work, partnering closely with our research, product, and go-to-market teams, or working hands-on with Claude, including tools like Claude Science, to explore hypotheses, design and analyze research, and demonstrate what's newly possible for scientists.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">The ideal candidate has grown up professionally in an organization that prioritizes scientific and executional rigor— for example, at a high-growth life sciences company or a leading science-focused investment or venture firm — and brings a rare blend of scientific depth, operating ability, and