Marketing Associate - #2197291

Salary: £26,000-£30,000 + share options

Reports to: Dr Hamzah Syed, CEO

Team: Marketing

picknmixAI is the Rightmove for life sciences.

Over £1bn of research data and IP sits dormant inside UK universities, spinouts, biobanks and hospital trusts — generating nothing. Meanwhile pharma, biotech and AI companies spend 12–18 months hunting for validated data to fuel their R&D. We map, list and match the two.

Like Rightmove, we never own the asset. We list metadata only; raw data never leaves the institution's governance. Sellers subscribe to the list, buyers browse free, and we take a fee when a deal closes.

Founded by scientists who hit the commercialisation gap themselves. Recent milestones include winning the Climb26 × Barclays National Innovation Competition. The founding team includes Dr James Cook (CSO, previously Genomics England).

We have a category nobody has named yet, buyers and sellers who both need convincing, and a small brand to speak of. That's the job.

You'll be our first marketing hire, supporting strategy and execution — positioning, visual identity, the LinkedIn post, the conference stand, the quarterly report. You're a designer who can write and a marketer who can build. There's no team to brief and no agency on retainer, so what gets made is what you make.

You'll be marketing to two very different audiences: technology transfer offices and research institutions on one side, pharma and biotech R&D leaders on the other. Credibility with both is everything — this is a room where overclaiming gets you dismissed.

We are looking for someone who can design and deliver our marketing policies, brand standards and approval processes — you're helping to write the playbook.

1. Brand & market credibility

• Deliver brand audit: visual identity, tone of voice, templates and guidelines
• Run our LinkedIn presence end to end — thought leadership, founder interviews, polls, partnership announcements, plus daily engagement on behalf of the brand and leadership team
• Plan and produce webinars, from topic and speakers through to promotion and follow-up

2. Events & in-person presence

• Own our presence at life-sciences and innovation events (ELRIG, Life Sciences Week, Innovate UK and similar): stand and banner design, posters, merchandise, collateral, and the campaigns that run before and after
• Make sure a small startup looks like the most credible company in the room

3. Seller, buyer & investor communications

• Create partner-facing content — institutional showcases, polls, case studies and launch posts including monthly investor and advisor newsletters
• Quarterly insights report for our seller side, turning platform data into market intelligence that TTOs and research institutions actually want to read
• Design the shareable asset pages and requirements forms our users interact with, and feed user-journey observations back to product

4. Growth

• Design and run campaigns that bring new buyers and sellers onto the platform
• Set the metrics, measure honestly, and drop what isn't working

Essential:

• 1+ years in B2B marketing, with design as a core skill
• A portfolio showing fluency in Canva / Adobe CC / LLMs / CapCut / Hera / Animaps and the ability to take a piece from concept to finished asset alone — digital, print and large-format
• A real LinkedIn track record
• Strong writer, and quick to get fluent in unfamiliar technical territory. You don't need a life-sciences background, but you do need to be able to write about genomic datasets and research commercialisation without sounding like you're guessing
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
• Comfortable in working solo and as part of the team

Desirable: 

• Life sciences, biotech, healthtech or research-adjacent experience or degree
• Experience in two-sided marketplace marketing, event management, webinar production, video editing.

£26,000-£30,000 + share options · fully remote · 30 days holiday allowance, £1000 equipment budget, Flexible working pattern, enrolled in company NEST pension scheme

To apply, please send your CV and portfolio link to [email protected] with the subject line "Marketing Associate - [Your Name]". Please include a short paragraph in the body of your email highlighting what motivates you and what are your aspirations.