Biotech

20 Years of Biotech
Executive Hiring

Cornerstone’s team has spent more than 20 years dedicated to working with biotech companies of every shape and size. Your industry is incredibly dynamic, fast-paced, and ever-evolving. Cornerstone’s team has extensive expertise working with US, EU, and A-Pac-based biotech companies. We follow your lead and adapt our pace and process to your specific needs while offering a wealth of expertise and real-world evidence.

Hiring at US & International Biotechs

Each biotech is unique and needs its story told.

Track Record of Experience

Our team has spent decades partnering with diverse biotech organizations across the globe.

All-In-One Hiring Solutions

Our solutions include executive search, growth expansions, department buildouts, candidate assessment, leadership development, talent pipelining, and market mapping.

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Everything You Need for Your
Biotech Executive Search

Cornerstone handles each partnership with a personalized and completely customized approach. We adapt and customize our services depending on your unique time and place in the market. This consistently changes during the constant ebbs and flows any biotech will face. We have seen it all and we use that experience to adapt to your specific needs.

Growth Mode

Utilizing our decades of expertise, Cornerstone works hand in hand with the hiring team and other human resources leaders and executive management to structure a customized growth plan for your biotech executive search spanning all relevant functional areas, bench to bedside.

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Constant Change

More times than not, biotechs are faced with uncertainty and need to adapt and respond quickly and efficiently. Cornerstone’s partnership in your biotech executive search stands strong through the inevitable ebbs and flows that you may face. We offer decades of expertise and different solutions to face these challenges.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What makes biotech executive search different from general executive search?

Biotech leaders operate under a unique set of pressures: finite capital, binary clinical outcomes, equity-heavy compensation, and lean teams where every executive both builds and does. Biotech executive search requires knowing which leaders have succeeded in that environment, not just which ones have the right title. That is the only market we work in.

Which biotech leadership roles does Cornerstone recruit?

From bench to bedside. We recruit across the C-suite and executive leadership, physician leadership, clinical development and operations, research and discovery, regulatory, manufacturing and quality, commercialization, AI and computational sciences, and corporate functions.

How can a biotech company compete with big pharma for top talent?

Not by matching big pharma on cash. Biotech wins on scope, impact, ownership, and a compelling scientific story. Part of our job in every biotech executive search is to frame that story for passive candidates and to help you build an offer, including equity, that a strong leader will take seriously.

How do you find leaders who can take a biotech company from clinic to commercial?

We look for leaders who have done it before at the stage you are entering, not just at a company that eventually got there. Leading a function inside a commercial organization is very different from building it from scratch. We evaluate for that distinction directly.

Does Cornerstone conduct biotech executive searches for companies outside the US?

Yes. Our biotech executive search work spans US, European, and Asia-Pacific companies, including international biotechs building their first US leadership teams.