# Account Executive - Life Sciences [PatSnap](https://www.jorb.ai/firms/patsnap.md) · London · United Kingdom · [Sales & Marketing](https://www.jorb.ai/jobs/sales-marketing.md) PatSnap is hiring a Account Executive - Life Sciences in London. Posted 2026-05-11; applications close 2026-07-10. **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/patsnap/91674214-6d6c-41c2-b743-f40327fe134c Posted 9d ago. ## Role details ## Role Summary We’re hiring an Account Executive to join our London team, focused on the Life Sciences vertical. You’ll be selling into pharma, biotech, and R&D-led organisations where innovation is critical and decisions have real commercial impact. Patsnap is a market leader in innovation intelligence, combining deep data with true agentic AI capabilities. It’s a product that goes beyond insight, actively helping teams uncover opportunities, track competitors, and make faster, more confident decisions around IP and product strategy. This is not transactional SaaS. You'll be selling our best-in-class solutions to organisations tackling some of the world’s most complex scientific challenges, from accelerating drug discovery to shaping global IP strategy. You’ll be involved in strategic, multi-stakeholder conversations with senior leaders across scientific and commercial teams. We’re looking for someone with a Life Sciences background (whether through education or experience) who is confident outbounding, comfortable with complexity, and motivated to step into a more consultative, high-value sales environment. ## What makes this a strong next step - You’ll join a company with a genuinely differentiated product in a high-growth Life Sciences market (~20% YoY) where demand is already proven, enabling stronger conversations and meaningful deals. - We are the only platform connecting IP intelligence, scientific and innovation data, and agentic AI in one place—a workflow replacement for how Life Sciences organisations make critical R&D and portfolio decisions. - This role accelerates your trajectory early, moving beyond volume selling into strategic, high-value conversations, while building deal experience, commercial judgment, and credibility in complex markets. - If you’re seeking a role with a stronger foundation, bigger opportunities, and a clear path to increasing deal size, ownership, and earnings, this is it. ## Responsibilities - Sell our AI-powered innovation platform to Life Sciences customers, focusing on pharma, biotech, and R&D-led organisations. - Engage in strategic, multi-stakeholder conversations with senior leaders across scientific and commercial teams. - Outreach and outbound prospecting to build a robust pipeline in a consultative, high-value sales environment. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to position Patsnap as the preferred solution for R&D decision-making and IP strategy. ## Qualifications & Requirements - 1–2 years of SaaS experience (preferred). - Life Sciences background through education or professional experience. - Comfort with complexity and a track record of outbound selling in a high-value environment. - Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills. ## Location & Work Model Hybrid role in London with in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. ## About Patsnap Patsnap is a global, pre-IPO company that transforms how organizations harness their Intellectual Property and Research & Development productivity. Our platform revolutionizes collaboration across the entire innovation lifecycle, using domain-specific AI to accelerate the creation of market-ready products. With over 12,000 customers worldwide, including many leaders in innovation, Patsnap is at the forefront of technological advancement. Our $300M Series E funding round values the company at approximately $1 billion. As the leading global Life Sciences intelligence platform, Patsnap helps pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and life sciences organisations make better innovation decisions. By connecting patents, scientific literature, clinical trials, regulatory data, and market intelligence, we enable customers to identify white spaces, reduce R&D risk, and accelerate breakthrough innovation. We call this Connected Innovation Intelligence—and we’ll teach you everything you need to know to become an expert. We have a vibrant and diverse team with offices in Singapore, Toronto, London, and Shanghai. Our hyper-growth trajectory is powered by our people, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where talent thrives and ideas bloom. ## Applying to this role This Account Executive - Life Sciences role at PatSnap runs through the firm's own careers portal and expects a CV and cover letter written specifically for the posting, not a portable submission carried across firms. Jorb AI's application agent tailors a CV and cover letter from your background to this posting and tracks the role alongside the rest of your applications. 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