Director of Marketing & Commercial Strategy – Precision & AI-Driven Therapeutics (Therapeutics & Innovations)

San Carlos, CA

Job Title: Director of Marketing & Commercial Strategy – Precision & AI-Driven Therapeutics (Therapeutics & Innovations)
Location: Remote
Reports to: Head of Therapeutics & Innovations Business Unit; serves as Head of Marketing & Strategy for the BU

 

About Us

We are redefining the future of therapeutics by integrating AI with healthcare to create powerful, next-generation treatment modalities. Our multidisciplinary team is building products at the cutting edge of science, with an approach that blends best-in-class clinical and multi-omics data to develop precision therapeutics that align with our personalized testing platform.

We're advancing a unique playbook: using our deep scientific foundation and proprietary datasets to build AI-enabled solutions that bridge diagnostics and therapeutics in ways never before possible. We’re looking for someone who can help shape how these innovations are positioned, communicated, and brought to market.

The Role

We are seeking a highly strategic, scientifically fluent marketing leader to join our Therapeutics & Innovations Business Unit. 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 goes beyond marketing collateral: you will shape our go-to-market strategy, support productization efforts, gather and synthesize market feedback, and ensure we present our work with both scientific credibility and commercial resonance. You’ll work closely with product, research, BD, and leadership teams to ensure our positioning reflects the full potential of our platform.

This role also includes market-facing work, such as conducting landscape surveys, engaging with KOLs and early customers, and gathering insights to refine both product and messaging strategy.

What You’ll Do

  • Messaging & Positioning: Translate complex science and AI capabilities into clear, compelling messaging tailored to scientific, investor, partner, and clinical audiences.
     

  • Commercial & Productization Strategy: Collaborate with science and product leads to shape how our therapeutic offerings are named, structured, and positioned in the market.
     

  • Marketing Collateral: Develop high-impact materials (decks, one-pagers, white papers, presentation content) that meet a high standard of polish, accuracy, and clarity.
     

  • Market Intelligence: Monitor the competitive landscape, emerging trends, and peer activity. Attend key industry events and conferences to stay ahead of developments and surface strategic insights.
     

  • Scientific Communications: Lead the creation of thought leadership content (e.g., blogs, abstracts, publications, event materials) that communicates our scientific vision.
     

  • Customer & Stakeholder Insight: Engage directly with clinicians, biopharma partners, KOLs, and payers to gather structured feedback and insights that guide our positioning and product strategy.
     

  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as a strategic bridge between R&D, product, BD, and executive teams, aligning internal and external narratives.
     

What We’re Looking For

  • 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.
     

  • Bonus: Experience in startups, AI/ML technologies, or early-stage therapeutic product teams.
     

  • Preferred: Background in immunology or oncology.
     

Why Join Us

  • Be part of a team building the future of therapeutics at the intersection of AI, diagnostics, and healthcare.
     

  • Define and shape an entirely new category of products in a rapidly evolving field.
     

  • Collaborate with a mission-driven, interdisciplinary team of scientists, and business leaders.
     

  • Help the world understand and access next-generation precision therapeutics.

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

San Carlos, CA

$169,200 - $211,500 USD

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, 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!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

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