AI BioHub Mentor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to founders creating companies in sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, therapeutics, drug discovery, diagnostics, computational biology, synthetic biology, healthcare, and similar areas.

• Deliver practical, experience-driven advice on scientific strategy, technical development, company establishment, product strategy, customer discovery, regulatory planning, commercialization, fundraising, and organizational growth.

• Mentor participating founders through one-on-one sessions, office hours, workshops, and company evaluations.

• Assist founders in assessing and enhancing their scientific, technical, product, and commercial strategies.

• Offer insights on company formation, team building, customer discovery, market validation, and fundraising processes.

• Support the evaluation of scientific feasibility, technical differentiation, data strategy, validation needs, and intellectual property factors.

• Provide insights into clinical development, regulatory pathways, healthcare economics, reimbursement, partnerships, and commercialization as applicable.

• Aid teams in understanding the responsible use of AI as well as sensitive scientific, biological, and healthcare data.

• Review company presentations, investor materials, partnership strategies, and fundraising initiatives, providing constructive feedback.

• Facilitate relevant connections to researchers, clinicians, operators, investors, corporate partners, and prospective customers.

• Engage in AI Bio Hub events, panels, Demo Days, and founder-focused programming.

• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and scientifically rigorous community.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, therapeutics, diagnostics, computational biology, synthetic biology, medical technology, artificial intelligence, or a related domain.

• Background as a founder, executive, investor, scientist, clinician, researcher, product leader, technical leader, or industry operator.

• Proven understanding of early-stage company development and the process of transforming innovation into commercially viable products.

• Experience in advising, mentoring, investing in, or supporting founders and early-stage companies.

• Strong judgment, communication, coaching, and relationship-building capabilities.

• Ability to offer straightforward and practical guidance while enabling founders to maintain control over their decisions.

• Dedication to responsible innovation, scientific integrity, diversity, and inclusion.

• Preferred experience with AI-driven drug discovery, computational biology, clinical development, digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, synthetic biology, or healthcare data.

• Knowledge of regulatory strategy, intellectual property, clinical validation, biopharmaceutical partnerships, healthcare procurement, or reimbursement processes.

• Established connections within the Cambridge and Boston life sciences, healthcare, technology, investment, or academic ecosystems.

• Previous engagement with an accelerator, venture studio, incubator, university innovation program, or founder community.

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time mentor role with time commitments varying according to program needs, founder demands, and mentor availability.

• Scheduled office hours.

• One-on-one advising for founders.

• Workshops and educational programming.

• Scientific and business evaluations.

• Panels and community events.

• Preparation for Demo Day.

• Strategic introductions.

• Opportunity to collaborate with ambitious founders at the initial stages of company formation.

• Chance to contribute to groundbreaking scientific and technical enterprises.

• Opportunity to enhance the AI and life sciences innovation ecosystem.