Vice President, Business Development

Guardant Health

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Guardant Health is revolutionizing cancer care through innovative genomic insights—and we’re seeking a bold leader to help scale that impact. As Vice President, Business Development, you will drive strategic partnerships across the biopharma ecosystem, accelerate growth, and play a critical role in bringing breakthrough diagnostics and therapies to patients worldwide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree (PhD, MD, MBA) preferred.
• 15+ years of business development experience in life sciences, diagnostics, or precision medicine, including significant leadership and team management responsibility.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams and consistently achieving or exceeding revenue targets.
• Deep expertise in precision oncology, molecular diagnostics, and genomics, including strong knowledge of NGS technologies, liquid biopsy, and translational research.
• Proven track record of structuring, negotiating, and closing complex, high-value partnerships that drive sustained business growth.
• Strong understanding of oncology pipelines, targeted therapies, and precision medicine trends, including regulatory and companion diagnostic considerations.
• Established network of senior relationships across biopharma and translational medicine, with the ability to generate and accelerate strategic opportunities.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across functions and levels, and effectively translate complex scientific and strategic concepts into clear, compelling value propositions.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical capability, and sound business judgment.
• Experienced people leader with a track record of developing talent and fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.
• Entrepreneurial and results-oriented, with the ability to balance long-term strategy and near-term execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the business development strategy for Guardant’s Biopharma organization, including partnership models, collaboration frameworks, and revenue growth initiatives.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with senior executives across the drug development continuum—from discovery and translational oncology through clinical and commercial—to drive adoption of Guardant Health’s technologies.
• Lead high-impact customer and partner engagements, representing Guardant Health at the executive level and clearly articulating the value of Guardant’s platform across clinical trials, companion diagnostics, and drug commercialization.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Development, Clinical Development, Laboratory Operations, Bioinformatics, Marketing, Scientific Affairs, and Regulatory teams to deliver integrated, partner-centric solutions.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing business development team, driving accountability, strategic execution, and commercial excellence.
• Serve as a member of the Senior Management Team, contributing to enterprise strategy, growth planning, and organizational leadership.
• Align internal capabilities with partner needs, fostering collaboration and driving solutions that leverage Guardant’s scientific and commercial strengths.

Benefits

• The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. This range does not include benefits or, if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.
• Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs.
• A background screening including criminal history is required for this role.
• GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).
• Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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• If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
• Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
• Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees