What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2026 Blackstone Life Sciences Summer Senior Associate position at Blackstone?
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Life Sciences Summer Senior Associate - 2026
Employer: Blackstone
Business Unit: Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA
Job Title: Summer Senior Associate
Blackstone Life Sciences
Blackstone Life Sciences is an industry-leading private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life cycle of companies and products within the key life science sectors. By combining scale investments and hands-on operational leadership, Blackstone Life Sciences helps bring to market promising new medicines and medical technologies that improve patients’ lives and currently has $14 billion in assets under management.
Job Description
Summer Senior Associates will work on potential investments, including sourcing and execution of such opportunities, and monitoring of current portfolio companies in the life sciences sector. Summer Senior Associates are involved in transaction sourcing, due diligence, valuation analysis, and negotiation of contracts and other agreements. The relatively small size of this group offers Summer Senior Associates the opportunity to work closely with senior-level members of Blackstone and to have extensive interaction with management teams and external advisors.
Responsibilities include:
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition to strong analytical and quantitative skills, the successful candidate should meet the following qualifications:
The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.
Expected annual base salary range:
$175,000 - $175,000
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.
Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), 44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or 852 3656 8600 (APAC).
Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:
You will not be eligible to participate in Blackstone’s health and other insurance benefit programs.
Please note that we use an AI resume screening tool to help with the initial review of applications. The tool helps us assess candidates based on skills, experience, and qualifications. The tool’s scores are one of the factors we consider when deciding who moves to the next stage of the application process.
To submit your application please complete the form below. Fields marked with a red asterisk * must be completed to be considered for employment (although some can be answered "prefer not to say"). Failure to provide this information may compromise the follow-up of your application. When you have finished click Submit at the bottom of this form.
Life Sciences Summer Senior Associate - 2026
Employer: Blackstone
Business Unit: Life Sciences
Location: Cambridge, MA
Job Title: Summer Senior Associate
Blackstone Life Sciences
Blackstone Life Sciences is an industry-leading private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life cycle of companies and products within the key life science sectors. By combining scale investments and hands-on operational leadership, Blackstone Life Sciences helps bring to market promising new medicines and medical technologies that improve patients’ lives and currently has $14 billion in assets under management.
Job Description
Summer Senior Associates will work on potential investments, including sourcing and execution of such opportunities, and monitoring of current portfolio companies in the life sciences sector. Summer Senior Associates are involved in transaction sourcing, due diligence, valuation analysis, and negotiation of contracts and other agreements. The relatively small size of this group offers Summer Senior Associates the opportunity to work closely with senior-level members of Blackstone and to have extensive interaction with management teams and external advisors.
Responsibilities include:
- Investment research
- Financial analysis, valuation, and modeling
- Industry and competitive analysis
- Business and scientific due diligence
- Drafting of memoranda for internal and external use
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition to strong analytical and quantitative skills, the successful candidate should meet the following qualifications:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required
- Currently enrolled in an advanced, dual life sciences-business degree program (e.g., MD/MBA); currently enrolled in a business degree graduate program (e.g., MBA) and possessing undergraduate life sciences training; currently enrolled in a life sciences degree graduate program (e.g., Masters) and possessing undergraduate training in business; or pursuing an advanced degree in a life sciences discipline (i.e., MD or MD/PhD); .
- Experience in investment banking or consulting with a focus on life sciences and/or principal investing experience in a life science focused fund is considered a strong positive
- Physicians in residency or fellowship training with demonstrated interest in life sciences investing will also be considered.
The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.
Expected annual base salary range:
$175,000 - $175,000
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.
Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.
Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), 44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or 852 3656 8600 (APAC).
Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:
- Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
- Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
- Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
- Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
- Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.
You will not be eligible to participate in Blackstone’s health and other insurance benefit programs.
Please note that we use an AI resume screening tool to help with the initial review of applications. The tool helps us assess candidates based on skills, experience, and qualifications. The tool’s scores are one of the factors we consider when deciding who moves to the next stage of the application process.
To submit your application please complete the form below. Fields marked with a red asterisk * must be completed to be considered for employment (although some can be answered "prefer not to say"). Failure to provide this information may compromise the follow-up of your application. When you have finished click Submit at the bottom of this form.
Salary : $175,000