Industry Lead - Life Sciences & Research
ApplyLife Sciences & Research · Remote
Sell in the industry you know, with maximum freedom and no cap on what you earn. You bring the relationships. Lykido builds the AI, does the delivery, and pays you first.
- High commission, no cap. This tier is built to out-earn the firm's owners.
- No admin. The platform handles the prep, the paperwork, and the follow-up. You sell.
- Vast literatures, trial design, and regulatory documentation sit largely untouched by modern tooling.
The role
You bring deep relationships and hard-won credibility in the life and research sciences; the firm removes the administrative tax that has always stood between you and the work, and ranks your communications first. You find the work and close it. The platform carries the rest.
The life and social sciences carry some of the highest remaining AI potential of any category and some of the lowest adoption - vast literatures, study and trial design, regulatory documentation, and lab data sitting largely untouched by modern tooling. The work is exacting and the stakes are real, which is precisely why the administrative weight around it is so heavy and so worth lifting.
What you will own
- Own a book of research organizations, labs, and life-sciences companies: literature synthesis, study and trial design support, regulatory writing, and data wrangling.
- Carry the firm's leverage into the months that disappear into search, formatting, and documentation, so the science moves faster without the rigor moving at all.
- Land a contained engagement on one painful workflow, prove it, and expand across the research lifecycle.
- Sell the outcome, not the hours - and never on a margin a client lacks the standing to refuse.
You may be a good fit if
- You have a deep, real network in life sciences or research and the credibility to open doors inside it.
- You have worked, sold, or delivered into research-driven organizations at a senior level and know where the months actually go.
- You are glad to work at a firm that gives a growing share of its profit away (About Lykido, below).
- You are fluent enough in AI to wield the firm's tooling and curious enough to push it further. You do not need to build it, but you must believe in it.
- You want to be paid for what you bring, and you would rather out-earn an owner than answer to a committee.
Compensation
Industry Lead is the firm's earning engine and is paid like one: high commission, no cap, for as long as you keep producing. For the firm's first years, and maybe longer, Industry Leads are built to out-earn the firm's Members - the owners. That is the structure. The people who bring the work are paid first and paid most.
In exchange, the firm makes one promise: it removes the administrative tax this work has always carried. Deal signals, staging, document generation, follow-up. The internal platform exists for you before it exists for anyone else, and your communications move to the front of the queue the moment they arrive.
There is a path from here to a Membership seat for a Lead who wants to help govern the firm rather than only sell into it. Many will earn more, and answer to less, by staying exactly where the commission is.
About Lykido
Lykido is an applied AI consultancy with a public-benefit commitment written into its charter. A share of net profit, starting at 5% and growing toward 50% as revenue scales, funds public-benefit work before any owner takes a distribution. That ordering is permanent. Nobody here is asked to preach; the structure does the work. Sell well, build well, and the commitment is funded by the same success that pays you.
How to apply
Please send your resume and a short note about a research bottleneck you have watched cost months that better tooling should have cost days. Parents returning to work after time away to raise children are encouraged to apply.
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