Operating Partner (AI Research)

Isomorphic Labs

Software Engineering, Data Science

London, UK

Posted on Nov 4, 2026

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

You’ll work alongside the VPs of AI and their wider organisation to deliver the highest-priority initiatives in their org areas, in particular where these are strategic in nature, require cross-organisational influence or are outside of the normal rhythms of the business.

* 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 maximise outputs across their organisation * Prioritise and Coordinate: You will distinguish critical leadership priorities from support tasks, establishing clear ownership and empowering teams to act. With a keen sense of timing, you will know when to revive paused initiatives, align stakeholders, and deliver actionable plans. * Deliver and Execute: You’ll focus your time on maximising the impact of key initiatives, particularly those outside the normal day-to-day operating patterns, or of the highest strategic importance. You’ll prepare, present and gain agreement on proposals among stakeholders and then influence teams to execute - leveraging strong communication skills. You’ll follow up, problem-solve, close loops in a timely fashion and drive initiatives to completion. * Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: You’ll build relationships with key stakeholders across Iso to gain a holistic understanding of the organisation, instilling high levels of trust and providing hands-on partnership on important projects. * Translate and Communicate: You’ll translate complex technical developments into clear, high-impact executive summaries and strategic presentations for a variety of stakeholders, including board meetings and key management presentations. * Drive efficiency: You’ll empower others to be maximally efficient by optimising for leanness and proactively spotting and breaking down blockers and inefficiencies, balancing what the organisation needs in the short and longer term with a keen eye for how to scale most efficiently and effectively.

Essential:

* Executive Partnership & Thought Leadership: Proven track record of operating shoulder-to-shoulder with senior executive leaders (e.g., C-Suite, VP-level) 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, with the confidence to probe, synthesize, and translate complex technical matters into actionable executive communication. * Complex Execution & Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to break down highly ambiguous, multi-faceted problems into concrete plans and drive them through to measurable completion with pace and precision. * Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to build rapid trust and drive alignment across diverse, interdisciplinary teams (research, engineering, product, and operations) without direct line authority. * Agility & Low-Ego Mindset: High resilience and adaptability in dynamic scale-up environments, with a roll-up-your-sleeves mentality where no task is too big or too small.

* 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 Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

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. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.