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Vice President of Science & AI in Austin, Texas at L7 INFORMATICS INC

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L7 INFORMATICS INC
Austin, Texas, 78703, United States
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Vice President of Science and AI

At L7 Informatics, Inc., our mission is to revolutionize scientific processes and data management to accelerate precision health across life sciences, healthcare, and nutrition value chains. Our end-to-end solutions and services enable researchers to make new genomics discoveries, precision therapeutics manufacturers to create higher fidelity therapies, health systems to provide superior diagnostics and standard of care, and precision agriculture to meet tomorrow's needs.

The L7 culture is one of the biggest reasons why our people choose to stay. Our culture is driven by four core values:

  • Collaboration: Listen empathetically to customers and colleagues. Seek first to understand. Actively listen with an open mind.
  • Innovation: Inspire each other to think big, bring new ideas, imagine all possibilities. Maintain a safe to fail environment where all ideas are welcome & valued. Be vigilant in our pursuit of creative solutions.
  • Excel: Strive for excellence in all we do. Elevate expectations and performance with every opportunity. Provide "best in class" product, customer service, employee experience.
  • Growth: We recognize we don't know everything. Be courageous to ask the hard questions, give and receive respectful & actionable feedback. Invest in time for continuous learning and development.

  • The most successful L7ers are naturally persistent and resilient when it comes to solving problems and servicing our customers. They are full of grit, spunk and driven by our mission to make a positive impact on a very important industry that can improve healthcare for people around the world.

    Our teams' favorite benefits of working at L7 are the fully remote, virtual work environment and FTO (flexible time off), which both allow our crew all the freedom and flexibility they need to have the lifestyle that works best for them.


    The Role

    Due to our continued growth, we are hiring a VP of Science and AI to join our executive leadership team. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will occupy a unique, high-impact position that bridges executive scientific advisory with scalable technical implementation. In this role, you will serve as a primary, trusted advisor to senior leadership at L7’s most strategic enterprise accounts—such as Eli Lilly and Cargill—ensuring our platform aligns deeply with their overarching business objectives and scientific goals.


    As the strategic point of contact for these marquee accounts, you will look holistically at their operational landscapes to identify expansion and upsell opportunities, seamlessly aligning with our sales and commercial teams to drive continuous revenue growth. Internally, you will be directly responsible for establishing L7's scientific content strategy, L7|SYNAPSE Agentic AI usage within the customer base, creating standard, reusable scientific content and workflows to accelerate and optimize implementation across our entire customer base. To achieve this, you will directly manage, mentor, and scale a specialized, cross-functional team of scientists and developers dedicated to content engineering and deployment reuse.


    What you will get to do
  • Support and participate in L7s quality management system (QMS) by complying with the Quality Policy and SOPs, and by meeting L7s QMS objectives.
  • Serve as an executive-level trusted advisor to senior leadership at key strategic accounts, building deep, collaborative relationships and establishing long-term business cases with clear ROI.
  • Identify and capture upsell opportunities within these strategic enterprise accounts, continuously monitoring account health and coordinating directly with the sales and commercial teams to maintain a sustainable pipeline.
  • Formulate the strategy for scientific content reuse, overseeing the design, standardization, and creation of modular scientific content intended for rapid deployment across customer implementations.
  • Lead, manage, and scale a dedicated team of scientists and developers, laying out tasks in sufficient detail while fostering an environment of continuous learning, growth, and high performance.
  • Collaborate closely with internal executives and cross-functional product management, strategy, and engineering teams to translate complex field requirements into standard platform capabilities.
  • Evangelize L7’s solutions and technical architecture to external executive stakeholders, establishing strong thought leadership across life sciences, pharma, and precision agriculture value chains.

  • What will make you a good fit
  • Educational Background: Ph.D. or Master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline (e.g., Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Chemistry, Molecular Biology) or Computer Science with a strong scientific focus.
  • Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sales, business development, or executive-level consulting within the life sciences industry.
  • Strategic Account Management Expertise: A proven track record of nurturing executive-level customer relationships, building trust, and influencing decision-makers at large enterprise companies.
  • Team Leadership & Management: Proven experience managing cross-functional technical teams, specifically combining the talents of scientific domain experts (scientists) and technical implementers (software developers).
  • Content Development & Architecture Strategy: Skilled in designing scalable, reusable technical or scientific frameworks, data models, workflows, or content libraries that optimize software implementation timelines.
  • Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication style, with a proven history of explaining highly complex scientific and technical concepts clearly to both technical teams and C-suite executives.
  • Organizational Agility: Highly organized, resourceful, and planful, with the ability to juggle multiple strategic priorities and foresee/plan around obstacles without losing momentum.

  • What will make you stand out
  • Exceptional Customer Relationships: An established history of building and maintaining long-term, high-trust relationships with key client executives, resulting in exceptionally high levels of retention and account expansion.
  • Innovative Content Engineering: Demonstrated success in developing innovative, standardized MES, LIMS, or ELN solutions that go beyond conventional approaches to drastically reduce custom deployment timelines.
  • Start-Up & Scale-Up Fluency: Experience working in a rapidly growing startup or scale-up environment, demonstrating the ability to deliver massive results with optimized resources and tight timelines.
  • Broad Domain Integration: Deep technical knowledge spanning L4 enterprise systems (ERP, QMS) down to L3 (LIMS, MES, Scheduling), L2 (Automation), and advanced data intelligence platforms.

  • The (Typical) Hiring Process
  • A phone call with one of our hiring managers to learn more about the role and your background.
  • Quick conversation with a member of our talent team.
  • A technical or strategic take-home assignment or case review (if applicable).
  • Interviews with 2-3 members of the leadership and commercial teams.
  • Final interview with the hiring manager.
  • Even if your experience and skills do not exactly match the job description, we value passion and curiosity and recognize that everyone comes with a unique background and perspective. If you're not sure if you meet the qualifications of this exact role, we encourage you to join our Talent Community on our career page so that we can consider you for the right role when the need arises.


    EOE STATEMENT

    We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

    l7informatics.com | 888.461.5227 | 1219 West 6th Street, Austin, TX 78703 USA



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