VP of Marketing

Turbine • Boston, MA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Turbine is seeking a strategic VP of Marketing to build the company’s reputation and market position as a leader in BioAI and virtual biology. The role translates Turbine’s scientific and commercial differentiation into a clear corporate narrative, strong executive presence, and increased engagement with leading biopharma organizations. A central mandate is elevating the external profiles of Turbine’s founders and leadership team and establishing them as credible voices in BioAI and the future of pharmaceutical R&D.

The VP provides strategic marketing leadership as Turbine scales commercially and expands its technology across modalities and therapeutic areas. Serving as an advisor to the CEO, founders, Chief Business Officer, and wider leadership team, the VP leads the marketing function and sets direction across corporate and product marketing. The role develops a high-performing team focused on product marketing, scientific content, conferences, and sales enablement.

The position owns corporate positioning and brand, executive thought leadership, global PR and communications, commercial and account-based marketing, marketing strategy and operations, and strategic direction for product marketing and sales enablement. It works closely with Business Development, Product, Scientific, and Delivery teams to communicate Turbine’s scientific value, support priority customer engagement, and demonstrate measurable marketing contribution to commercial growth.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive marketing, communications, or corporate marketing experience.
• Significant experience in biopharma, biotech, TechBio, AI-enabled drug discovery, or an adjacent scientific technology market.
• Strong existing relationships across the biopharma and biotech media, communications, and industry ecosystem.
• Demonstrated success positioning a complex scientific or technology company.
• Track record of developing founders and senior executives into recognized external thought leaders.
• Exceptional corporate narrative, positioning, messaging, and storytelling capabilities.
• Experience leading PR agencies and external communications partners.
• Ability to understand sophisticated science and technology and translate it effectively for different audiences.
• Strong executive presence and ability to operate credibly with founders, board members, investors, and pharmaceutical executives.
• Demonstrated ability to move between strategy and execution while focusing on the highest-value priorities.
• Experience leading and developing a small, high-output marketing team.
• Strong understanding of how marketing contributes to commercial growth, including target-account engagement and pipeline influence.

Nice To Haves

• Experience helping scale an investor-backed company through a significant commercial growth phase.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical R&D and drug discovery.
• Experience creating or positioning a new technology category.
• Strong US biopharma network, ideally complemented by European relationships.
• Experience with strategic partnerships and joint customer communications.
• Experience building an executive thought-leadership program from the ground up.
• Experience with account-based marketing in a complex enterprise sales environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously sharpen Turbine’s corporate positioning, narrative, category positioning, messaging, and brand identity.
• Translate sophisticated science and technology into accessible market narratives and differentiate Turbine within the AI drug discovery, virtual cell, and broader TechBio landscape.
• Monitor market, customer, and competitive developments and apply insights to positioning and go-to-market strategy.
• Develop a thought-leadership platform for founders and executives, including distinct executive topics, narratives, talking points, opinion pieces, and external engagement opportunities.
• Identify and secure speaking, media, podcast, panel, and authorship opportunities, and prepare executives for high-profile engagements.
• Build relationships with conference organizers, journalists, editors, industry influencers, and ecosystem leaders.
• Own Turbine’s global PR and external communications strategy; lead external agencies and communications partners.
• Develop proactive media narratives and communications programs around scientific results, partnerships, funding, product developments, customer milestones, and industry developments.
• Manage corporate announcements and issues communications and increase high-quality earned media coverage and share of voice in BioAI and virtual biology.
• Partner with Business Development and Product Marketing to translate positioning into commercial impact and develop strategies for priority accounts, therapeutic areas, and use cases.
• Use account-based marketing and targeted campaigns to increase engagement in strategic accounts, coordinating executive, conference, content, and digital activity.
• Develop customer-focused messaging and campaigns, and demonstrate measurable marketing contribution to qualified pipeline and strategic-account engagement.
• Turn customer proof points and scientific results into commercial narratives with Business Development, Product, and scientific teams.
• Own the annual marketing strategy, priorities, operating plan, and budget; establish objectives and measurable KPIs across corporate and product marketing.
• Prioritize investment across PR, thought leadership, conferences, content, digital, and account-based marketing; evaluate effectiveness and ROI and adjust investment as appropriate.
• Select, manage, and hold agencies and partners accountable for outcomes.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing marketing team and establish effective working practices across Marketing, Business Development, Product, and Delivery.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented marketing reporting and recommendations to the leadership team.
• Provide strategic direction to Product Marketing & Sales Enablement while enabling the team to own day-to-day execution.
• Oversee product positioning and messaging, sales enablement materials, product collateral, launch programs, customer case studies, proof points, conference content, scientific publications, white papers, webinars, and product-oriented campaigns.
• Ensure competitive intelligence informs product positioning and commercial conversations and that Business Development has effective narratives, evidence, and materials for priority customers.
• Partner with Product, Scientific, and Delivery teams to ensure scientific accuracy and identify compelling evidence and proof points.

Benefits

• Base salary of $220K–$250K plus a target annual performance-based bonus of 20% of base salary.
• $410 home-office allowance, available to spend within the first 6 months.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options.
• 20 paid vacation days each calendar year, accrued per pay period.
• 8 days of paid sick leave per calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed