Senior Manager of Brand & Content, Formation Bio
$155-190k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
Powering hyper-efficient, tech-driven drug development
Job no longer available
Powering hyper-efficient, tech-driven drug development
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$155-190k
+ Equity
2+ days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years in brand/marketing, content creation, or communications
- Strong familiarity with the biotech and pharma and AI media, content, and event landscape is a plus
- Proactive and hungry attitude, with an outcomes-oriented mentality. You can produce a high quantity of high quality work, and are willing and comfortable to incorporate ongoing feedback and direction egolessly and seamlessly
- Proven ability to develop compelling content that resonates with a high-profile, sophisticated audience. Extraordinary writing skills required
- Comfortable mastering new or complex technical and/or scientific subjects quickly for the purpose of storytelling
- Experience working with and managing external agencies, including PR, media, creative, and event planning partners
- Strong project management and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally
- Comfort working with senior leadership on high visibility / high impact projects
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with a talent for translating complex topics into engaging narratives
- Creative instinct and willingness to do things differently
- Strategic thinker who excels in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- A proactive, collaborative mindset that aligns with Formation Bio’s values
- Track record of incorporating AI into your workflows to improve the quality, creativity, and speed of your work
What the job involves
- The Senior Manager of Brand & Content will be instrumental in shaping Formation Bio’s reputation among key external stakeholders, including investors, industry leaders, and potential partners
- Reporting to the Sr. Director of Brand Strategy & Communications, this role is at the forefront of elevating Formation Bio’s external presence through compelling storytelling, impactful content, sophisticated events and activations, and strategic relationship-building
- This position is critical to driving Formation Bio’s ambitious short and long term goals, across portfolio growth, partnerships, investor relations, and talent acquisition
- Formation Bio aims to deliver the impact and scale of a large pharma company—without the traditional overhead and expense—by leveraging technology and AI to drive scalability and innovation
- This position will play a key role in communicating that vision to the world
- Execute strategies and action plans to position Formation Bio as the leader in AI-driven drug development and the go-to partner for drug developers
- Tailor initiatives to engage key external audiences, including:
- Pharma and biotech leaders: CEOs, R&D heads, and BD leaders etc
- Investors: Biotech, AI, and generalists
- Top talent: Particularly technical AI talent and BD/drug-picking experts
- Own execution for all external branded content, from ideation and drafting through editing and production
- Develop strategic, high-quality content across multiple formats (written, audio, video). Top priority work will include blog articles, white papers, op-eds, short and long form video, and slides
- Manage a content calendar aligned with brand milestones (e.g., conference participation, funding announcements, tech launches, partnership reveals, etc.)
- Collaborate with leadership to produce thought leadership pieces that highlight Formation Bio’s innovations in AI and drug development
- Source additional internal and external researchers/writers to contribute sophisticated content, and lead editorial and production for that content
- Plan impactful, creative bespoke events (often with corporate partners) catered to engage our target audiences
- Source and collaborate with external vendors and/or agencies to execute events
- Partner with internal teams to identify and seize opportunities for external visibility through media, events, and conferences
- Build and maintain relationships with media outlets and industry influencers to ensure consistent, positive coverage
- Work closely with external agencies (PR, media, creative, event planning etc.) to execute key brand initiatives effectively
- Track KPIs related to brand awareness and content engagement, using insights to refine strategies
- Ensure all branding initiatives contribute to measurable progress toward company goals
- Manage budget carefully and proactively, and resourcefully leverage AI and other technologies to optimize your resources and output
Application process
- We may consider remote candidates from specific geographies based on qualifications, skills, and business needs
Our take
Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.
According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. This success has pushed Formation to expand beyond supporting trials into developing assets itself. In 2025, it reached a major milestone by licensing its first drug in a deal worth up to hundreds of millions. Alongside this, the company has also added an early immunology program to its pipeline, signalling a broader push into in-house development.
Now a Unicorn, with partners including Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe, Formation Bio is steadily embedding itself within the Big Pharma ecosystem. How far it can go remains an open question, but the prospect of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is becoming harder for the industry to ignore.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$372m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$156m
SERIES C
Total funding: $530.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible Time Off: We have a flexible PTO policy and we encourage our team members to take the time that they need to recharge
- Parental Leave: All parents receive 12 weeks of fully paid bonding leave to welcome a newborn, adopted, or fostered child, and birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of paid leave
- Comprehensive Benefits: All full time employees have access to health, vision, and dental insurance. Additionally, we provide pre-tax commuter benefits, access to a 401k plan, short and long-term disability and life insurance.
- Education & Career Development Resources: Formation Bio offers a plethora of professional development resources to employees, including a yearly L&D stipend, internal mobility opportunities, in depth trainings, leadership coaching, and more.
- Community: Our teams collaborate closely to achieve our mission, supporting each other across functions and priorities. We build connection through team-building events, quarterly company gatherings, a biennial company-wide retreat, and various Employee Resource Groups.
Company values
- Think in first principles: We rigorously interrogate all possible paths to understand how we can do things differently and faster. We challenge assumptions, ask why, and solve problems from the ground up
- Be a scientist: We are curious and we continuously learn. We steelman, not strawman in debates. We listen, rapidly iterate, and make the best decisions with the evidence we have
- Deliver care: We lead with empathy. We value different perspectives, collaborate across teams, and support one another. We give and receive direct, actionable and timely feedback to hold ourselves and others to a high bar
- Champion the mission: We keep the mission as our north star and deliver impact for patients. We hold ourselves accountable for our wins and failures and keep moving forward
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.
Linhao Zhang
(Co-Founder)Linhao is also the Founder of Foundation 649. Previously, they were a Product Engineer at Oscar Insurance, a Software Engineer at Salesforce, and co-founder of Day 7 Photography.
Dan Neil
(CTO)Prior to joining Formation Bio in 2025, Dan was the Chief Data Officer at Tessera Therapeutics. Before that, they spent nearly 7 years at BenevolentAI in various roles, including SVP of AI & NY Site Lead and CTO.
Dale Klasko
(Senior Vice President, People)Dale built her career as a campus recruiting leader and strategic people business partner at growth-stage companies in the adtech & finservices industries.
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