Corporate Development Intern

Owkin

Owkin

Paris, France
Posted on Jul 16, 2025

About us

Owkin is an agentic AI company on a mission to explore complex biology to speed up and scale research for the creation of new treatments and diagnostics for patients. Owkin K, our AI co-pilot combines unparalleled access to multimodal data, cutting-edge AI to understand biology and pioneering agentic AI to achieve Biological Artificial Superintelligence in the future.


Owkin is comprised of a group of specialized companies that work seamlessly together, combining deep expertise with a shared mission to accelerate biological discovery. Owkin K is the technology foundation of our ecosystem, it provides cutting-edge co-pilots incorporating high-quality data infrastructure and AI tools to power breakthroughs for researchers, customers and our companies.

Owkin has raised over $300 million through investments from leading biopharma companies, including Sanofi and BMS, and venture funds like Fidelity, GV and Bpifrance, among others.Owkin is seeking the best and brightest to join our fast-growing and dynamic team.

About the role

As a Corporate Development & Strategy Intern, you will support Owkin’s Corporate Development & Strategy team across a broad range of key strategic initiatives that drive Owkin’s core business. Your work will support the development of Owkin’s therapeutic pipeline and the advancement of Owkin K’s Agentic software. You will assist in building business, scientific, and clinical rationales to inform investment decisions, shape our strategic positioning, and identify collaboration opportunities. This role involves a variety of activities, including supporting competitive intelligence efforts, literature and desk research, deal sourcing, due diligence, reporting, and contracting support.

The position is based in Paris.

In particular, you will be involved in:

Competitive Intelligence & Landscaping

  • Support research and reporting efforts to maintain knowledge bases of relevant companies to identify potential strategic partners and competitors.
  • Assist in landscaping cutting-edge technologies and scientific developments to help inform Owkin’s strategy.
  • Help review, aggregate, analyze, and monitor pharmaceutical development, scientific literature, and market research to identify and assess potential acquisition and licensing targets.

Research & Analysis

  • Support with financial, literature, and market analyses to inform the development of strategic recommendations and business cases.
  • Integrate insights from diverse sources (market reports, databases, scientific publications, internal experiments) into clear, structured reports and presentations.
  • Help develop high-quality materials for Owkin’s internal decision meetings, external presentations, and board meetings.

Project Management & Reporting

  • Prepare summaries, key takeaways, and detailed notes from internal and external meetings, and provide updates across business units to keep activities aligned and advancing
  • Maintain and enhance project management tools, folders and trackers to monitor progress across various projects.

About you

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Enrolled in a Master’s (or higher) degree program in Chemistry / Biology / (Bio)chemical Engineering or similar with some exposure to or experience in business or biotech
  • Passionate about Biotech and AI
  • A structured thinker, who can formulate how to get work done
  • Able to juggle multiple workstreams through prioritizing
  • Not afraid of asking questions and solving problems
  • An effective communicator in written and oral English
  • A quick learner and creative thinker
  • Numerate and tech-savvy
  • Able to work full time for 6 months
  • Previous exposure to the health sector, strategy consulting or corporate finance is a plus but not required

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What we offer

  • Flexible work organization
  • Friendly and informal working environment
  • Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

  • Please complete the form and submit your CV.
  • Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
  • Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
  • Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.
  • Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
  • The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.
  • The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;
  • Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger
  • Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.

If you think that you have been a victim of fraud,