AI Commercial / Sales Associate

AI Commercial / Sales Associate – Life Sciences

Location: Somerset, New Jersey — Hybrid / In-Person Experience: Recent graduates / 0–2 years of experience Travel: Regular U.S. travel for customer meetings, conferences, and industry events

ABOUT KOGNITIC

Kognitic is an AI company helping pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies make better decisions across drug development, competitive intelligence, and commercial strategy.

Our platform brings together proprietary clinical, scientific, and commercial intelligence with AI to help teams understand rapidly changing markets, evaluate competitors, identify opportunities, and answer complex strategic questions.

We work with teams across some of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

We are building the next generation of our U.S. commercial team and are looking for an ambitious early-career professional in the New Jersey area who wants to grow at the intersection of AI, life sciences, sales, and business.

THE ROLE

This is not a traditional inside-sales or call-center BDR position.

We are looking for someone who enjoys meeting people, building relationships, learning new industries, attending events, understanding customer problems, and turning conversations into business opportunities.

As an AI Commercial / Sales Associate, you will work across business development, sales, customer engagement, conferences, product demonstrations, and commercial strategy.

One week you may be researching an oncology company and reaching out to its competitive intelligence team. The next you may be at a pharmaceutical conference meeting potential customers, helping coordinate a Kognitic event, participating in an enterprise product demo, or following up with an executive you met at an industry event.

You do not need previous pharmaceutical or AI experience. We're looking for someone who is outgoing, curious, confident, highly motivated, comfortable meeting new people, and eager to learn quickly.

Candidates with either a life-sciences/medical background or a business background are encouraged to apply. A PharmD, biomedical, biotechnology, healthcare, business, marketing, sales, or related background is a plus.

What matters most is your ability to learn quickly, understand customers, build relationships, communicate confidently, and create opportunities.

You will work closely with Kognitic's CEO, commercial leadership, and scientific team and gain direct exposure to how enterprise AI solutions are introduced and sold to global pharmaceutical organizations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build relationships with executives and teams across pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

• Identify companies, teams, and decision-makers who could benefit from Kognitic

• Develop new business opportunities through LinkedIn, email, introductions, referrals, conferences, and in-person networking

• Attend pharmaceutical, biotechnology, AI, and industry conferences across the United States

• Meet prospective and existing customers and help turn relationships into commercial opportunities

• Help organize customer dinners, roundtables, webinars, meetings, and other Kognitic events

• Participate in product demonstrations and gradually develop the ability to lead portions of customer demos

• Learn the scientific and commercial issues our customers care about, particularly within oncology and drug development

• Research companies, therapeutic areas, drug pipelines, competitors, and market opportunities before customer conversations

• Follow opportunities from initial introduction through demo, evaluation, proposal, and commercial discussion

• Build relationships with existing customers and identify opportunities to expand Kognitic within their organizations

• Work with our scientific and product teams to translate customer needs into product and commercial opportunities

• Maintain strong discipline around CRM, follow-ups, contacts, and pipeline

• Experiment with new ways to reach customers and build Kognitic's presence within the life-sciences community

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You may be a recent graduate or have a few years of professional experience. More important than years of experience is your personality, curiosity, and ambition.

You are likely someone who:

• Is naturally comfortable meeting and talking with new people

• Enjoys building relationships rather than simply making transactions

• Is curious about AI, business, science, healthcare, and biotechnology

• Can walk into a conference where you know almost nobody and start conversations

• Communicates clearly and professionally with customers and senior executives

• Is comfortable picking up the phone, sending an introduction, or asking someone for a meeting

• Learns quickly and asks thoughtful questions

• Takes ownership rather than waiting to be told what to do

• Is organized and persistent with follow-up

• Enjoys being part of a small, entrepreneurial team

• Wants meaningful responsibility early in their career

• Is comfortable traveling regularly throughout the United States

• Is based in New Jersey or within reasonable commuting distance of our Somerset office

BACKGROUND

We welcome candidates from both scientific/healthcare and business backgrounds.

Relevant fields may include:

• PharmD / Pharmacy • Biology • Biomedical Sciences • Biotechnology • Biochemistry • Health Sciences • Public Health • Business • Marketing • Sales • Economics • Communications • Other related scientific, healthcare, or business disciplines

A scientific or healthcare background is helpful but not required. A business, marketing, or sales background is equally welcome.

We are more interested in potential, personality, communication skills, curiosity, and ambition than a specific degree.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

This role provides unusually broad exposure for someone early in their career.

You will develop experience in:

• Enterprise AI sales • Pharmaceutical commercial strategy • Oncology and drug development • Business development • Executive relationship building • Enterprise negotiations • AI product demonstrations • Conference and event strategy • Strategic account development • Working directly with pharmaceutical customers

As you develop, this position can grow into roles across enterprise sales, strategic accounts, business development, commercial strategy, or commercial leadership.

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Paid time off and company holidays • Performance-based compensation • Direct mentorship and exposure to company leadership • Regular travel to major pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and AI conferences  • Significant opportunity for career growth and responsibility

WHY KOGNITIC?

AI is changing how pharmaceutical companies discover information, evaluate markets, monitor competitors, and make strategic decisions.

But enterprise business is still built around people.

Relationships matter. Trust matters. Showing up matters.

At Kognitic, you will combine both worlds.

You will work with AI technology while spending your time meeting customers, understanding their challenges, building relationships, attending industry events, and helping grow the company.

If you are ambitious, curious, outgoing, and want to build a career that combines AI, sales, business, science, and people, we'd like to meet you.