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About the role

  • Head of GTM commercializing FirstPrinciples’ AI products for scientific discovery. Building go-to-market strategy, customer pipeline, sales systems, and adoption across research organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Build the commercial function from the ground up, testing and refining the ICP, messaging, sales process, and go-to-market motion
  • Define and own the go-to-market strategy and build relationships and pipeline across commercial R&D teams, industry researchers, research groups, national laboratories, and emerging customer segments
  • Own the end-to-end commercial lifecycle from prospecting and qualification through discovery, demos, proposals, and close
  • Lead strategic outreach and early customer development while building repeatable approaches for reaching physicists and research leaders
  • Conduct technically credible discovery conversations and product demos connecting research goals to product use cases
  • Help prospective customers structure pilot plans, establish success criteria, and build confidence in platform adoption
  • Navigate scientific, technical, administrative, procurement, and leadership stakeholders
  • Define and build systems for outreach, qualification, account planning, CRM management, forecasting, and pipeline management
  • Work with Research Partners on handoff from commercial agreement to onboarding, usage, and long-term adoption
  • Bring market feedback, objections, and emerging use cases to product, research, and engineering
  • Own pipeline, conversion, and revenue goals while helping define the early sales playbook
  • Partner with leadership on ICP definition, positioning, packaging, pricing, and go-to-market priorities

Requirements

  • Strong background in physics or a closely related scientific field
  • Experience building or leading an early-stage go-to-market, enterprise sales, business development, scientific commercialization, or similarly complex commercial motion
  • Genuine interest in commercial work and motivation to help scientific products reach researchers
  • Comfortable initiating conversations, prospecting into new organizations, and building relationships from the ground up
  • Ability to understand complex research goals and translate technical capabilities into clear, credible value
  • Strong communication skills for discovery conversations and product demonstrations
  • Persistence, high organization, follow-through, and accountability for measurable commercial outcomes

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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