Director of Partnerships

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Sage Bionetworks

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit leader in open science that builds and operates data platforms and community-driven tools to accelerate biomedical research and discovery. The organization enables secure data sharing, large-scale dataset reuse, and collaborative analysis—often using machine learning and AI—to advance understanding of diseases, biomarkers, and therapeutic responses. Sage emphasizes radical collaboration, transparency, and infrastructure (e. g. , the Synapse platform and a Python client) to support researchers, challenges, and portals across a wide range of biomedical domains.

📋 Description

• Develop and grow a diversified portfolio of external partnerships across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology, health technology, AI, and philanthropic organizations • Identify scientific, technological, and market developments creating opportunities for Sage’s research, data, governance, and technology capabilities • Build relationships with scientific, technical, executive, and funding decision-makers • Translate relationships into qualified pipelines of proposals and funded agreements • Develop repeatable solutions connecting external needs with Sage’s scientific, data, governance, technology, and AI capabilities • Evaluate opportunities for strategic alignment, scientific value, differentiation, feasibility, funding potential, and organizational capacity • Work with the CEO, Chief Data Officer, and organizational leaders to shape partnership strategy • Lead hands-on discovery with prospective partners • Develop analyses, prototypes, demonstrations, proofs of concept, concept notes, proposals, presentations, scopes, and budgets • Lead strategic initiatives that strengthen Sage’s capabilities, visibility, partnerships, and funding prospects • Lead scientific strategy and content for external scientific events, including Sage Assembly • Bridge external partners with Sage’s scientific, technical, operational, and leadership teams • Facilitate decisions about priorities, resources, risks, and tradeoffs • Build trusted relationships with principal investigators and organizational leaders • Mentor colleagues and emerging leaders • Build and lead a team over time

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in a biomedical, behavioral, public health, data science, engineering, or related discipline • Significant experience (10+ years) across biomedical science, data, technology, and external partnerships • Demonstrated success originating and advancing funded partnerships with life science, health technology, or AI organizations • Experience translating partner needs into focused solutions and developing proposals, scopes, budgets, agreements, and negotiations • Hands-on experience with health data and data-intensive technologies • Strong scientific communication, cross-functional relationship building, and an established industry network • Sound judgment, personal accountability, and ability to advance opportunities amid ambiguity • Travel required a minimum of two times per year for on-site events in Seattle, WA • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Ability to work effectively under deadlines • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills • Attention to detail and accuracy • Flexibility to adapt to changing environments, priorities, and multitask • Ability to work well in a team and maintain professionalism • Ability to follow company policies, procedures, and relevant laws and regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability • Robust retirement plan • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Remote or hybrid arrangements within the United States • Virtual-first interviews conducted virtually • Reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process