First Marketing Hire
Join Chai Discovery as the first marketing hire to shape the brand and engage diverse audiences in the life sciences sector.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
What you'll build
- refresh identity and website
- make key moments count at events
- build platforms for founders and researchers
- make Chai more legible to engineers and researchers
- put a playbook in place for faster operations
Must have
- brand builder with trusted taste
- operational discipline
- experience with respected technology brands
Nice to have
- experience in high-growth startup
- led brand or creative at design-forward company
- curiosity about science
AI in the day-to-day
Chai trains frontier models that learn biochemical structures and interactions.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, seniority, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the first marketing hire at Chai Discovery will be responsible for shaping the company's brand and narrative, ensuring that it resonates with diverse audiences, including pharma executives and AI researchers. Key skills include brand building, operational discipline, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly. This position is ideal for someone with experience in establishing a respected technology brand, particularly in a startup environment, though a background in biotech is not mandatory. Chai Discovery emphasizes a culture of ownership and high velocity, making it a fitting environment for proactive and detail-oriented individuals.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 1, 2026. Last confirmed on Chai Discovery's careers page October 1, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the First Marketing Hire role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, United States.
- Where is the role based?
- Chai Discovery is hiring for this position in San Francisco, United States.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this First Marketing Hire role at Chai Discovery.
From the original posting
About the role
We are making our first marketing hire: someone we can trust to own how Chai shows up in the world, including the brand, the story, and the moments where people form an impression of us. Our audiences range from pharma executives and scientists to AI researchers and engineers. Our work is technical and easy to misunderstand.
Today our founders carry most of this themselves. We need someone who can raise the bar while taking that load off them.
You will start with the foundation: a refreshed identity and website. From there, you'll layer on:
making our key moments count at JPM, partner events, and the AI and science conferences where we need to stand out;
building platforms that give our founders and researchers more reach;
making Chai more legible and compelling to the engineers and researchers we want to hire, including those with no background in biology;
putting a playbook in place so we can move faster without lowering the bar.
About you
You are a brand builder with taste people trust and the operational discipline to deliver on it. You are sophisticated enough to set a creative direction and hold an agency to it, but hands-on enough to rewrite a headline yourself, fix a slide, chase an event vendor, or sweat the details of a dinner. Nothing is beneath you if it shapes how Chai is perceived.
You have likely been close to building at least one respected technology brand. You may have been a founding marketer at a high-growth startup, led brand or creative at a design-forward company, or run experiences at a firm known for them. Biotech or pharma experience isn't required; genuine curiosity about the science and the ability to learn a technical domain quickly are.
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