Vice President, Customer Success (Life Sciences)

VP Of Customer SuccessAs VP of Customer Success at Hippocratic AI, you will own one of our largest, most strategic life sciences customers end-to-end while building and scaling a high-performing pod of Customer Success Executives and Forward Deployed Engineers. You'll serve as the executive champion for this flagship account, driving expansion and retention while pioneering the playbooks and processes that define how we deliver breakthrough AI into life sciences organizations. This role exists because our most important customers deserve a dedicated executive partner who combines deep life sciences expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to lead technical delivery teams—someone who can translate customer success into sustainable revenue growth and category leadership.You'll lead a dedicated pod of Customer Success Executives and Forward Deployed Engineers—your direct team that works embedded with the customer. You'll partner closely with our Product, Engineering, Sales, and Clinical teams, translating customer insights into product roadmap priorities and go-to-market strategy. This is a leadership role that combines hands-on account ownership with team building and organizational influence.We believe the best ideas happen together.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, California office, expected to be five days a week. We're also exploring establishing a presence in the Bellevue area—if that develops, flexibility on location may be available for exceptional candidates.What You BringMust-Have:Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.10–15 years of experience in life sciences (pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, or CRO), including 7+ years in customer-facing leadership roles working with or within life sciences organizations.Proven ability to own a large, strategic enterprise account and lead a cross-functional team of customer success and technical/engineering staff.Deep knowledge of life sciences workflows and operating models across areas such as commercial, medical affairs, clinical operations, or R&D.Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a startup or high-growth technology environment.Strong executive presence and communication skills, with proven ability to engage C-suite executives and senior stakeholders in large enterprise organizations.Demonstrated success in implementation excellence, change leadership, and delivering measurable results.Track record of hitting or exceeding delivery and revenue goals in a CS organization.Experience building or shaping customer success playbooks, team structures, and scalable processes—not just executing them.Technical fluency sufficient to lead and direct Forward Deployed Engineers and engage credibly with customer technical teams.Nice-to-Have:Experience with AI, digital health, or clinical/scientific decision support tools.Background in consulting, health tech, or life sciences operations transformation.Prior exposure to regulatory, compliance, or data governance considerations in life sciences (e.g., GxP, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11).Experience with pricing, packaging, or go-to-market strategy in a life sciences or healthcare SaaS environment.Why Join Hippocratic AIReinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We're building the world's first healthcare?only, safety?focused LLM—a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St.

Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.Backed by the world's leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children's, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who've spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies—ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.Equal OpportunityHippocratic AI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building a team that reflects the patients we serve.

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