Director of Marketing & Commercial Strategy

Summary

Join our team as Director of Marketing & Commercial Strategy and redefine the future of therapeutics by integrating AI with healthcare. You will serve as the connective tissue between science, product, and external-facing teams, owning the messaging, packaging, and positioning of our AI-enabled therapeutic offerings. This role involves shaping our go-to-market strategy, supporting productization efforts, gathering market feedback, and ensuring scientific credibility and commercial resonance in our work. You will also conduct landscape surveys, engage with key opinion leaders and early customers, and gather insights to refine product and messaging strategy. Collaborate with product, research, business development, and leadership teams to ensure our positioning reflects the full potential of our platform. This is a remote position.

Requirements

• Advanced scientific degree (PhD, MD, MS, or equivalent) in biology, AI/ML, bioengineering, computational biology, or a related field
• 3+ years in scientific product marketing, translational science, or product strategy—ideally within biotech, life sciences, or AI/ML in healthcare
• Exceptional communication skills and demonstrated ability to translate complex science for diverse audiences
• Experience developing polished, high-impact external deliverables (e.g., slide decks, one-pagers, websites, white papers)
• Strategic thinker with a strong grasp of market dynamics, storytelling, and product-market fit
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and bridging science and business

Responsibilities

• Translate complex science and AI capabilities into clear, compelling messaging tailored to scientific, investor, partner, and clinical audiences
• Collaborate with science and product leads to shape how our therapeutic offerings are named, structured, and positioned in the market
• Develop high-impact materials (decks, one-pagers, white papers, presentation content) that meet a high standard of polish, accuracy, and clarity
• Monitor the competitive landscape, emerging trends, and peer activity
• Attend key industry events and conferences to stay ahead of developments and surface strategic insights
• Lead the creation of thought leadership content (e.g., blogs, abstracts, publications, event materials) that communicates our scientific vision
• Engage directly with clinicians, biopharma partners, KOLs, and payers to gather structured feedback and insights that guide our positioning and product strategy
• Serve as a strategic bridge between R&D, product, BD, and executive teams, aligning internal and external narratives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in startups, AI/ML technologies, or early-stage therapeutic product teams
• Background in immunology or oncology

Benefits

• Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more
• We also offer a generous employee referral program!