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About our Team
We own portfolio within Chemistry markets covering the Corporate Segment.
About the Role
Reporting to the Senior Director of Product, this role sits at the intersection of product strategy, competitive intelligence, commercial strategy, and pricing, and requires deep domain credibility in cheminformatics. The successful candidate will combine rigorous market and competitive understanding with hands-on experience in chemical sciences and cheminformatics software to guide investment decisions, evaluate practical competitive moves, and liaise with other stakeholders to sharpen market positioning, equip sales teams to win, and structure pricing that captures the value the product delivers.
Responsibilities
- To support the chemistry product domain in achieving growth goals and targets.
- Competitive Analysis & Positioning – Own ongoing competitive product intelligence for Reaxys and the related cheminformatics features, capabilities, roadmaps and data analysis. Additionally, role will work closely with Strategy and other internal teams to support broader market and target segments research. This work will inform differentiated product positioning, messaging, and win/loss insight.
- Product Investment Priorities – Partner with management and roadmap planning teams to help assess and prioritize the product investment based on competitive and market analysis as described above. As needed, assist in building the business case for major initiatives.
- Domain expertise – serve as a chemistry domain and cheminformatics market expert, and provide input as needed to marketing teams as they develop value proposition, segment positioning and other collateral.
- Sales Strategy Support – Partner closely with sales and sales enablement to shape go-to-market and account strategy; objection-handling guidance, and value proposition delivery. Provide direct support on strategic or complex deals.
- Pricing Strategy – Serve as primary contact for pricing team as they lead pricing analysis, willingness-to-pay understanding, and governance of discounting and deal structures.
- Go-to-Market Planning – Partner with marketing, sales, customer success to plan and execute launches, ensuring coordinated market execution.
- Sales Execution Insights – Monitor sales execution trends via internal tools and relationships to identify where process and information improvement is needed, then develop & execute plans to address gaps. Serve proactively as coach when needed and help raise message delivery across all regions.
- Cross-Functional Leadership – Act as a trusted partner to all stakeholders.
- Executive Communication – Represent to senior and executive leadership as needed.
- Team Mentorship – Build team members and team capability in market understanding and competitive strategy.
- Thought Leadership – Represent the organization externally at industry conferences, customer events, and in the scientific/cheminformatics community to reinforce market credibility and brand positioning as needed.
Requirements
- Have a degree in chemistry or chemistry-related field (at least at Bachelor level).
- Have 10+ years direct experience in cheminformatics software development or sales, with direct exposure to the scientific, technical, and commercial dynamics of the cheminformatics market.
- Demonstrated strength in market understanding, with a track record of translating customer, competitive, and industry insight into product strategy and investment decisions.
- Demonstrated excellence in user engagement and adoption, with a history of driving product usage, retention, and satisfaction among scientific and technical user communities.
- Have proven experience developing and executing pricing and packaging strategy for B2B software or scientific information products.
- Display exceptional competitive intelligence and market analysis capabilities, with fluency in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative inputs into clear recommendations.
- Experience partnering directly with sales organizations on enablement, deal strategy, and account-level support.
- Show working knowledge of cheminformatics tools and workflows (e.g., structure and substructure search, reaction databases, chemical registration systems, structure–activity relationship analysis).
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior and executive audiences.
- Experience operating within global, cross-functional, and matrixed organizations.
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working options. Our benefits include wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals—supporting both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.
Working for You
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Health benefits: medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits: 401(k) with match and Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: wellness platform, Headspace subscription, and Employee Assistance Programs
- Insurance: short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death, critical illness, and hospital indemnity
- Family benefits: parental leave, adoption, and surrogacy support
- Savings accounts: HSA, FSA, dependent care, and commuter benefits
- Paid time off, plus volunteer and Employee Resource Group participation days
About the Business
As a global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes. By combining trusted content with advanced analytics, we support research, education, and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to solving global challenges and building a more sustainable future.
Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-New York $149,600 - $278,100. If performed in New York City, the base pay range is $163,300 - $303,300. If performed in Rochester, NY, the base pay range is $136,100 - $252,800. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. If performed in the following location: Home-Based - Netherlands, the base pay range is €105,200 - €175,200.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here.
Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Director Chemistry Portfolio Growth
About our Team
We own portfolio within Chemistry markets covering the Corporate Segment.
About the Role
Reporting to the Senior Director of Product, this role sits at the intersection of product strategy, competitive intelligence, commercial strategy, and pricing, and requires deep domain credibility in cheminformatics. The successful candidate will combine rigorous market and competitive understanding with hands-on experience in chemical sciences and cheminformatics software to guide investment decisions, evaluate practical competitive moves, and liaise with other stakeholders to sharpen market positioning, equip sales teams to win, and structure pricing that captures the value the product delivers.
Responsibilities
- To support the chemistry product domain in achieving growth goals and targets.
- Competitive Analysis & Positioning – Own ongoing competitive product intelligence for Reaxys and the related cheminformatics features, capabilities, roadmaps and data analysis. Additionally, role will work closely with Strategy and other internal teams to support broader market and target segments research. This work will inform differentiated product positioning, messaging, and win/loss insight.
- Product Investment Priorities – Partner with management and roadmap planning teams to help assess and prioritize the product investment based on competitive and market analysis as described above. As needed, assist in building the business case for major initiatives.
- Domain expertise – serve as a chemistry domain and cheminformatics market expert, and provide input as needed to marketing teams as they develop value proposition, segment positioning and other collateral.
- Sales Strategy Support – Partner closely with sales and sales enablement to shape go-to-market and account strategy; objection-handling guidance, and value proposition delivery. Provide direct support on strategic or complex deals.
- Pricing Strategy – Serve as primary contact for pricing team as they lead pricing analysis, willingness-to-pay understanding, and governance of discounting and deal structures.
- Go-to-Market Planning – Partner with marketing, sales, customer success to plan and execute launches, ensuring coordinated market execution.
- Sales Execution Insights – Monitor sales execution trends via internal tools and relationships to identify where process and information improvement is needed, then develop & execute plans to address gaps. Serve proactively as coach when needed and help raise message delivery across all regions.
- Cross-Functional Leadership – Act as a trusted partner to all stakeholders.
- Executive Communication – Represent to senior and executive leadership as needed.
- Team Mentorship – Build team members and team capability in market understanding and competitive strategy.
- Thought Leadership – Represent the organization externally at industry conferences, customer events, and in the scientific/cheminformatics community to reinforce market credibility and brand positioning as needed.
Requirements
- Have a degree in chemistry or chemistry-related field (at least at Bachelor level).
- Have 10+ years direct experience in cheminformatics software development or sales, with direct exposure to the scientific, technical, and commercial dynamics of the cheminformatics market.
- Demonstrated strength in market understanding, with a track record of translating customer, competitive, and industry insight into product strategy and investment decisions.
- Demonstrated excellence in user engagement and adoption, with a history of driving product usage, retention, and satisfaction among scientific and technical user communities.
- Have proven experience developing and executing pricing and packaging strategy for B2B software or scientific information products.
- Display exceptional competitive intelligence and market analysis capabilities, with fluency in synthesizing qualitative and quantitative inputs into clear recommendations.
- Experience partnering directly with sales organizations on enablement, deal strategy, and account-level support.
- Show working knowledge of cheminformatics tools and workflows (e.g., structure and substructure search, reaction databases, chemical registration systems, structure–activity relationship analysis).
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior and executive audiences.
- Experience operating within global, cross-functional, and matrixed organizations.
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working options. Our benefits include wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals—supporting both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.
Working for You
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Health benefits: medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits: 401(k) with match and Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: wellness platform, Headspace subscription, and Employee Assistance Programs
- Insurance: short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death, critical illness, and hospital indemnity
- Family benefits: parental leave, adoption, and surrogacy support
- Savings accounts: HSA, FSA, dependent care, and commuter benefits
- Paid time off, plus volunteer and Employee Resource Group participation days
About the Business
As a global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes. By combining trusted content with advanced analytics, we support research, education, and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to solving global challenges and building a more sustainable future.
Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-New York $149,600 - $278,100. If performed in New York City, the base pay range is $163,300 - $303,300. If performed in Rochester, NY, the base pay range is $136,100 - $252,800. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. If performed in the following location: Home-Based - Netherlands, the base pay range is €105,200 - €175,200.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here.
Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
USA Job Seekers:
EEO Know Your Rights.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Chemistry Professor
Verify your institution's cap-exempt status
Many universities qualify as cap-exempt H-1B employers under INA Section 214(c)(1), letting them file year-round without lottery registration. Confirm this directly with HR before accepting an offer, since it changes your entire timeline.
Translate your credentials for USCIS evaluation
A three-year chemistry degree from outside the U.S. can satisfy the specialty occupation requirement, but you'll need a credential evaluation from a NACES-member service. Get this done before you start applying so offers don't stall at the petition stage.
Research prevailing wage tiers using OFLC Wage Search
Chemistry Professor salaries are benchmarked against DOL prevailing wage levels by institution type and location. Pull the data from OFLC Wage Search for your target metro area so you can spot underpaying offers before they lock you into a petition.
Target departments with active grant funding
Chemistry departments running NIH or NSF-funded research labs file H-1B petitions far more consistently than teaching-only programs. Filter your search to tenure-track and research faculty roles at R1 institutions, where sponsored positions are structurally built into grant budgets.
File your I-129 with premium processing
USCIS premium processing guarantees a 15-business-day adjudication decision on your I-129 petition. For faculty roles with a fixed semester start date, standard processing risks missing your first teaching term entirely.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring institutions
Search Chemistry Professor roles on Migrate Mate to see which universities and research institutions have active H-1B LCA filing history through DOL. That filing history tells you which employers already have the infrastructure to sponsor your petition.
H-1B Visa Chemistry Professor: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Chemistry Professor jobs qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. Chemistry Professor roles meet USCIS's specialty occupation definition because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in chemistry or a directly related scientific field. Most tenure-track and visiting faculty positions at accredited universities document this requirement explicitly in the job posting, which strengthens the petition considerably.
Are universities cap-exempt for H-1B petitions?
Most accredited universities and nonprofit research institutions qualify as cap-exempt H-1B employers, meaning they can file petitions at any time without entering the annual lottery. This is one of the structural advantages of faculty positions over industry roles. Confirm cap-exempt status with the institution's HR or international office before signing an offer letter.
How do I find chemistry faculty positions at H-1B sponsoring institutions?
Migrate Mate shows verified LCA filing history by employer, so you can identify universities that have actively sponsored H-1B petitions for chemistry and related science roles. This is more reliable than inferring sponsorship willingness from a job posting alone, since LCA filings are public DOL records tied to actual approved petitions.
Does my foreign chemistry degree qualify for an H-1B petition?
A foreign bachelor's degree in chemistry or a closely related field generally satisfies the specialty occupation requirement if it's equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree. USCIS accepts credential evaluations from recognized services to establish equivalency. Three-year degrees from some countries may qualify, but the evaluation must explicitly confirm the equivalency to avoid an RFE.
What role does my employer play in the H-1B filing process?
Your employer handles the entire petition process: filing the LCA with DOL for prevailing wage certification, then submitting Form I-129 to USCIS. You can't self-petition for an H-1B. For faculty roles, the university's HR or legal team typically manages this, but confirm they have experience with academic H-1B filings, since timelines tied to semester start dates require careful coordination.