{"name":"Deep Origin","description":"<p>We are building tools that help scientists solve disease. Streamline computational analysis today. Simulate biology tomorrow.</p><a href=\"https://www.deeporigin.com/about\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"external\"></a>","jobs":[{"title":"Director of Product Management","shortcode":"0520760EF4","code":"","employment_type":"Full-time","telecommuting":false,"department":"Deep Origin","url":"https://apply.workable.com/j/0520760EF4","shortlink":"https://apply.workable.com/j/0520760EF4","application_url":"https://apply.workable.com/j/0520760EF4/apply","published_on":"2026-09-25","created_at":"2026-09-23","country":"United States","city":"South San Francisco","state":"California","education":null,"experience":"Director","function":"Engineering","industry":"Biotechnology","locations":[{"country":"United States","countryCode":"US","city":"South San Francisco","region":"California","hidden":false}],"description":"<p><strong>About Deep Origin</strong></p><p>Deep Origin is a biotech startup building an operating system for science that transforms how life science research is conducted. Led by Michael Antonov, co-founder of Oculus, and backed by Formic Ventures, we are redefining the infrastructure behind modern drug discovery. Our AI-driven platform enables scientists to accelerate discovery, reduce cost, and bring breakthrough innovations to life faster. As we scale, engineering excellence is a critical lever in advancing our mission to dramatically reduce disease and extend human healthspan.</p><p></p><p><strong>Role Description</strong></p><p>We are looking for an experienced<strong> Director of Product Management </strong>to lead product execution and help build and scale the product organization at Deep Origin.</p><p>This role is for a product leader who has built and scaled<strong> B2B SaaS products in a startup environment</strong>, taken products from <strong>0 → 1 through product-market fit and meaningful commercial scale</strong>, and knows how to deeply understand customer problems before deciding what to build. </p><p>You will work closely with executive leadership, Product, Engineering, AI/ML, Science, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development to translate customer and market needs into clear product strategy, priorities, roadmaps, and execution.</p><p>This is not a role focused only on maintaining an existing roadmap. We are looking for someone who can challenge assumptions, identify the right customer problems to solve, bring structure to the product organization, and help turn strong technology into scalable products customers value and are willing to pay for.</p><p>Experience in biotech, life sciences, biology, chemistry, or drug discovery will be helpful. The most important requirement is a demonstrated record of building and scaling successful software products.<br></p><p><u>Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.</u></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul><li><strong>10+ years of product management experience.</strong></li><li>Approximately <strong>5+ years of product leadership experience</strong>, including leading Product Managers or product teams.</li><li>Demonstrated experience building <strong>B2B or enterprise SaaS software products</strong>.</li><li>Proven experience taking a product from <strong>0→1</strong>, finding product-market fit, and scaling it to meaningful commercial adoption and<strong> $70+ mil revenue.</strong> </li><li>Recent experience operating in a <strong>startup or scale-up environment</strong>.</li><li>Direct experience conducting customer discovery and using customer feedback to materially change product direction.</li><li>Experience owning multiple parts of the product lifecycle, including strategy, discovery, roadmap, execution, launch, GTM, pricing, and post-launch iteration.</li><li>Experience working directly with external customers rather than relying only on internal stakeholders or market research.</li><li>Experience partnering closely with Sales and Marketing on commercialization.</li><li>Experience building or significantly improving Product Management processes and organizational structure.</li><li>Ability to work effectively with highly technical Engineering and AI teams.</li><li>Excellent communication, leadership, and executive presentation skills.</li><li>Strong judgment and willingness to challenge assumptions.</li><li>Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities and hypotheses may change quickly.</li><li><strong>First principles and systems thinking.</strong></li><li>This role requires working<strong> at least 3 days per week in San Francisco office.</strong></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Product Strategy &amp; Execution</strong></li><ul><li>Lead product strategy and execution across our software platform and product portfolio.</li><li>Translate company goals, customer needs, and market opportunities into clear product priorities and roadmaps.</li><li>Lead products from initial concept and customer discovery through launch, product-market fit, iteration, and scale.</li><li>Define clear product goals, success metrics, milestones, and decision-making frameworks.</li><li>Identify when a product or feature should be expanded, changed, repositioned, or stopped.</li><li>Balance long-term product strategy with immediate customer and commercial needs.</li></ul><li><strong>Customer Discovery &amp; Product-Market Fit</strong></li><ul><li>Spend significant time speaking directly with customers and prospects to understand their workflows, pain points, buying behavior, and unmet needs.</li><li>Build a repeatable and rigorous customer-discovery process.</li><li>Test product hypotheses before committing significant engineering resources.</li><li>Use customer feedback, adoption, revenue, retention, and other metrics to evaluate product-market fit.</li><li>Be comfortable discovering that an initial hypothesis was wrong and changing product direction accordingly.</li><li>Translate customer insights into scalable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.</li></ul><li><strong>Go-to-Market &amp; Commercial Strategy</strong></li><ul><li>Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Finance on go-to-market strategy.</li><li>Help define product positioning, packaging, pricing, and commercial strategy.</li><li>Understand how customers measure the value of a product and use that understanding to inform pricing and prioritization.</li><li>Support launches and ensure strong alignment between Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer-facing teams.</li><li>Connect product decisions to business outcomes including adoption, revenue, retention, and growth.</li></ul><li><strong>Product Leadership</strong></li><ul><li>Lead, coach, and develop the existing Product Management team.</li><li>Create clear ownership and accountability across product areas.</li><li>Establish strong product management practices around customer discovery, prioritization, roadmap development, product launches, and measurement.</li><li>Help organize and scale the Product function as Deep Origin grows.</li><li>Raise the standard for product thinking and execution across the organization.</li><li>Develop Product Managers while remaining close enough to the work to help solve difficult product problems directly.</li></ul><li><strong>Cross-Functional Leadership</strong></li><ul><li>Translate highly technical capabilities into clear customer value.</li><li>Create alignment across teams with different priorities and areas of expertise.</li><li>Drive clarity and decisions in ambiguous situations.</li><li>Communicate product strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Influence effectively without relying only on formal authority.<br></li></ul></ul><p><strong>Values &amp; Working Style</strong></p><ul><li>Ownership mindset – you take responsibility for building and improving systems that enable people and teams to perform at their best.</li><li>Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment.</li><li>Strong collaborator who partners effectively with executives, managers, and cross-functional teams.</li><li>Pragmatic and impact-driven, focused on building solutions that scale with the organization. </li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul><li>Opportunity to shape the future of health, longevity, and our ability to simulate life.</li><li>Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity.</li><li>Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.</li><li>Annual team gatherings and company events.</li><li>Free lunch, snacks, beverages, and onsite gym access (for in-office employees).</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Why This Role Matters Now</strong></p><p>Deep Origin is entering a phase where our scientific platform, engineering organization, and commercial capabilities must scale simultaneously. Building a leadership infrastructure that can support this growth is critical.</p><p>The Director of Product Management will play a central role in building that capability and helping Deep Origin move from strong technology to products that achieve meaningful market adoption and scale.</p><p></p>"},{"title":"Middle/Senior Alliance Manager","shortcode":"F3808ED034","code":"","employment_type":"Full-time","telecommuting":true,"department":"Deep Origin","url":"https://apply.workable.com/j/F3808ED034","shortlink":"https://apply.workable.com/j/F3808ED034","application_url":"https://apply.workable.com/j/F3808ED034/apply","published_on":"2026-09-15","created_at":"2026-09-04","country":"United States","city":"","state":"","education":null,"experience":"Mid-Senior level","function":"Product Management","industry":"Biotechnology","locations":[{"country":"United States","countryCode":"US","city":"","region":null,"hidden":false}],"description":"<h3>About the company</h3><p>Deep Origin is a biotech startup building an operating system for science that transforms how life science research is conducted. Led by Michael Antonov, co-founder of Oculus, and backed by Formic Ventures, we are redefining the infrastructure behind modern drug discovery.</p><p>Our AI-driven platform enables scientists to accelerate discovery, reduce cost, and bring breakthrough innovations to life faster. As we scale our scientific platform and expand our portfolio of research, biotech, pharmaceutical, and government partnerships, building strong and enduring relationships with our collaborators is critical to advancing our mission to dramatically reduce disease and extend human healthspan.</p><h3><br>About the role</h3><p>Deep Origin is seeking an<strong> Alliance Manager </strong>to own the day-to-day management of our growing portfolio of scientific and drug discovery partnerships.<br></p><p>This is a highly hands-on, client-facing role at the intersection of<strong> science, relationship management, program execution, and business development. </strong>You will serve as the primary point of contact for active collaborations, ensuring that scientific milestones stay on track, governance structures work effectively, meetings lead to clear actions, and potential issues are identified before they become problems. </p><p>We are looking for someone who wants to<strong> do the work:</strong> build relationships, run meetings, maintain milestone trackers, coordinate across teams, identify risks, follow through on commitments, and establish the operational structure that allows partnerships to succeed.<br><br><u>Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.</u></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul><li><strong>3-5 years of experience in alliance management, partnership management, biotech/pharma business development</strong> or a closely related role.</li><li>Experience managing external partnerships involving multiple organizations and internal stakeholders.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to own day-to-day external partner relationships rather than operating solely as an internal project manager.</li><li>Experience managing multiple simultaneous partnerships, milestones, meetings, deliverables, and changing timelines.</li><li>Bachelor's or higher <strong>degree in biology, chemistry, biotechnology, life sciences, or a related discipline,</strong> or equivalent relevant scientific experience.</li><li>Strong<strong> scientific fluency and understanding of the drug development process (small molecules)</strong>.</li><li>Ability to follow discussions involving areas such as safety toxicology, ADMET, and hit-to-lead drug discovery and understand their relevance to program progress, even without being the scientific domain expert.</li><li>Strong relationship-building instincts and a highly client-facing mindset.</li><li>Ability to build trust quickly and communicate credibly with both scientists and business stakeholders.</li><li>Strong judgment around when to escalate a partner issue versus resolving it independently.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication appropriately for external partners and internal stakeholders.</li><li>Highly organized and proactive, with the ability to establish structure where processes are still evolving.</li><li>Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities, milestones, and timelines may change.</li><li>Ability to operate independently while collaborating closely with scientific, product, program, and commercial teams.</li><li>Willingness and ability to travel regularly to partner sites, company meetings, and relevant industry conferences.</li><li>Experience managing partnerships from<strong> both sides of an alliance:</strong> managing a large pharmaceutical partner while working within a biotech company andmanaging smaller biotech<strong>, </strong>academic, or research partners from within a larger organization. </li></ul><p><strong><br>Nice-to-have: </strong></p><ul><li>Experience working in biotechnology, pharmaceutical R&amp;D, drug discovery, computational biology, or a related life sciences environment.</li><li>Familiarity with government-funded scientific programs or collaborations, including <strong>ARPA-H, DARPA, NIH, or similar mechanisms.</strong></li><li>Experience establishing or operating Joint Scientific Committees or comparable partnership governance structures.</li><li>Experience working with multi-year research collaborations involving scientific milestones and formal governance.</li><li>Management consulting experience involving life sciences, biotech, or pharmaceutical clients.</li><li>Experience supporting partnership renewals, expansions, or commercial development opportunities.</li></ul><p></p><h3>Key responsibilities</h3><ul><li><strong>Own partner relationships: </strong>serve as the primary point of contact for scientific and drug discovery partnerships, managing communication, meetings, follow-ups, and ongoing engagement.</li><li><strong>Manage partnership governance: </strong>establish and maintain milestone trackers, meeting cadences, deliverables, action items, and governance processes across multiple collaborations.</li><li><strong>Lead Joint Scientific Committees (JSCs): </strong>own JSC structure, agendas, preparation, documentation, and follow-through while partnering closely with scientific leadership.</li><li><strong>Coordinate scientific programs: </strong>work across R&amp;D, toxicology, product, commercial, and BD teams to keep scientific objectives, partner expectations, timelines, and execution aligned.</li><li><strong>Identify and escalate risks early: </strong>monitor partnership health and proactively surface scientific, operational, timeline, or relationship risks before they become critical.</li><li><strong>Support growth within existing partnerships:</strong> identify signals for renewals, expansions, and new collaboration opportunities and share relevant commercial intelligence with BD and commercial leadership.</li><li><strong>Drive cross-functional alignment: </strong>ensure effective handoffs from BD into execution and maintain clear communication between partner teams and internal scientific, product, and commercial stakeholders.</li><li><strong>Support complex collaborations: </strong>help manage partnerships across biotech, pharma, academia, and government, including programs with formal milestones, reporting requirements, and multiple participating organizations.</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Values &amp; Working Style</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Ownership mindset</strong> — you take responsibility for the health of your partnerships and follow issues through to resolution.</li><li><strong>Hands-on execution</strong> — you are comfortable doing the detailed work required to keep partnerships moving, not just developing strategy.</li><li><strong>Relationship-driven</strong> — you understand that successful alliances depend on trust, credibility, responsiveness, and clear communication.</li><li><strong>Scientifically curious</strong> — you don't need to be the domain expert in every program, but you want to understand the science well enough to recognize what matters.</li><li><strong>Proactive</strong> — you identify gaps, risks, and missing structure before someone asks you to address them.</li><li><strong>Highly organized </strong>— you can manage a complex portfolio without allowing milestones, commitments, or follow-ups to fall through the cracks.</li><li><strong>Strong communicator</strong> — particularly internally, where you ensure the right people have the right context at the right time.</li><li><strong>Comfortable with ambiguity </strong>— you can establish structure while working in a rapidly evolving biotech startup.</li><li><strong>Commercially aware </strong>— you recognize when a strong scientific partnership may create opportunities for deeper collaboration. </li></ul><p></p><p><strong>What we offer: </strong></p><ul><li>Opportunity to play a central role in Deep Origin's most important scientific and commercial partnerships.</li><li>Direct exposure to cutting-edge drug discovery, computational science, AI-driven research, and government-funded biomedical programs.</li><li>Significant ownership over building Deep Origin's alliance management practices and governance frameworks.</li><li>Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership team.</li><li>Career growth as the partnership portfolio and alliance management function expand.</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Why This Role Matters Now</strong></p><p>Deep Origin's partnership portfolio is expanding across biotech, pharmaceutical, and government-funded scientific collaborations. As these programs grow in number and complexity, successful execution requires dedicated ownership after a partnership is signed.</p><p>Creating a dedicated Alliance Management function will allow Deep Origin to establish consistent governance, improve partner experience, identify risks earlier, and create stronger pathways toward renewal and expansion.</p><p>The person joining this role will have the opportunity not only to manage existing partnerships, but also to <strong>help build the operating model for how Deep Origin manages scientific alliances as the company scales.</strong></p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul><li>Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity.</li><li>Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage. </li><li>Remote-friendly culture with optional onsite work.</li><li>Annual team gatherings and company events.</li><li>Free lunch, snacks, beverages, and onsite gym access (for in-office employees).</li></ul>"}]}