Operating Partner (AI Research), London

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease. The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery. Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed. Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI's powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world's most devastating diseases.

Your impact

As an Operating Partner you'll work as a member of a compact, agile, and high-impact team specializing in catalyzing business critical initiatives across Iso through partnership with cross-functional organization leaders. Together, we drive operational excellence, maximizing productivity and accelerating progress toward our mission. Because agility, organization, and flawless execution are critical, this role will dynamically evolve alongside the needs of our team and the leaders you partner with.

What you will do

• Thought-Partner: You'll enable leaders and their teams to operate effectively by advising and soundboarding on their ideas for how to solve problems, accelerate, and maximize outputs across their organization.
• Prioritize and Coordinate: You will distinguish critical leadership priorities from support tasks, establishing clear ownership and empowering teams to act.
• Deliver and Execute: You'll focus your time on maximizing the impact of key initiatives, particularly those outside the normal day-to-day operating patterns, or of the highest strategic importance.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: You'll build relationships with key stakeholders across Iso to gain a holistic understanding of the organization.
• Translate and Communicate: You'll translate complex technical developments into clear, high-impact executive summaries and strategic presentations for a variety of stakeholders.
• Drive efficiency: You’ll empower others to be maximally efficient by optimizing for leanness and proactively spotting and breaking down blockers and inefficiencies.

Skills and qualifications

Essential:

• Executive Partnership & Thought Leadership: Proven track record of operating shoulder-to-shoulder with senior executive leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic soundboard, and operational force-multiplier.
• Understand and Translate Complex Topics with Fluency: Strong ability to learn and absorb technical information, grasp key concepts of machine learning/frontier AI.
• Complex Execution & Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to break down highly ambiguous, multi-faced problems into concrete plans and drive them through to measurable completion.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build rapid trust and drive alignment across diverse, interdisciplinary teams without direct line authority.
• Agility & Low-Ego Mindset: High resilience and adaptability in dynamic scale-up environments.

Nice to have:

• Background in a Chief of Staff, Strategic Operations, or Operating Partner role within a fast-scaling tech or AI organization.
• Familiarity or working exposure to digital biology, computational chemistry, or biopharma workflows.
• Experience facilitating executive team rhythms, planning cycles, and organizational scaling mechanisms.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

• Thoughtful: At Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care.
• Brave: At Iso is about fearlessness, but it's also about initiative and integrity.
• Determined: At Iso is the way we pursue our goal.
• Together: At Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive.

Hybrid working

It's hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week.