Life sciences staffing & recruiting The right people change everything.

Specialized life sciences staffing for Biometrics, Clinical Operations, and AI & Data Analytics.

We help biotech, pharma, and CRO teams find the right people, whether it’s one key hire or a full team.

Client results

Our numbers speak for themselves.

As of November 2026
positions filled
1,100 +
professionals in our network
12,500 +
Expertise

We’re better because we're specialized.

Depth of talent. Depth of relationships. Depth of understanding.

Anyone can keyword match. We live in these areas so we know the people. We’ve built a community of proven talent.

Biometrics

Clinical Operations

AI & Data Analytics

When clients call us

We're ready.

Talent needs can be big or small, sudden or planned, but they all matter. You need a partner that’s ready for all of it.

What’s happening
What usually helps

You’re torn between insourcing and outsourcing.

You need specialized talent for now.

Your workload has outgrown your team.

You’re ready to scale.

HIRING Solutions

No matter how you label it, it's still about the right person.

Yes, we work across all these models. The goal is always the same: providing the right people at the right time in the right way.

Human first

Human First is how we built CLS.

Hiring is personal.

We built CLS around people who value relationships, good judgment, and actually knowing the people they work with. That means taking the time to understand what someone needs, recommending people we genuinely believe in, and being willing to say when something is not the right fit.

Technology helps us work more efficiently, but it does not replace the conversations, context, and judgment that make recruiting work.

That is what Human First means to us.

01

We listen

Before we search, we understand the team, the program, the work, and what success actually looks like.

02

We search with context

Our recruiters work from relationships they have already built, while continuing to source beyond the obvious candidates.

03

We recommend, not forward

Everyone we submit has been personally screened and comes with context around why we believe they fit.

04

We stay involved

Feedback makes the search better, and communication after placement helps keep the relationship working.

Because finding a resume is easy.

Understanding the person behind it still matters.

Our team

Meet the people behind the work.

These are the people having the conversations, learning the market, getting to know candidates, working with clients, and solving the problems that come up along the way.

They are the people you will actually work with.

Illustrated portrait of Madison Driggers, Director of Client Partnerships at Connect Life Sciences

Madison Driggers

Director of Client Partnerships
Illustrated portrait of Jim Owens, President and Co-Founder at Connect Life Sciences

Jim Owens

President and Co-Founder
Illustrated portrait of Noemi Owens, Vice President of Recruiting at Connect Life Sciences

Noemi Owens

Vice President of Recruiting
Illustrated portrait of Tim Weldon, Senior Director of Client Partnerships at Connect Life Sciences

Tim Weldon

Senior Director of Client Partnerships
Illustrated portrait of Steve Stiles, Recruitment Team Lead at Connect Life Sciences

Steve Stiles

Recruitment Team Lead
Illustrated portrait of Shalanda Thomas, HR & Payroll Manager at Connect Life Sciences

Shalanda Thomas

HR & Payroll Manager
Open positions

Open today.

Updated from our recruiting desk. Every position lives on its own page, so you can share it, save it, and send it to the one person it was written for.

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Security Engineer I

A biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing targeted therapies and precision medicines for the treatment of various cancer types. Our mission is to…
Location
Oakland, CA
Type
Contract
Pay
Up to $92 / hr
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Clinical Data Management Lead

As the Senior Clinical Data Manager (SCDM), you will lead the end-to-end data management lifecycle for our early-to-late-phase oncology trials. In a small…
Location
Remote
Type
Contract
Pay
Up to $70 / hr
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Process Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Process Engineer to support pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, with an initial focus on Oral Solid Dosage (OSD). This…
Location
Middletown, DE
Type
Direct hire
Pay
$115,000 to $150,000
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Recently filled

These positions have been filled and are no longer open. They show the kind of searches our recruiters complete.

Corporate Contracts Manager II

Location
Oakland, CA
Type
Contract
Filled
October 2026

Senior Clinical Trial Associate

Location
Boston, MA
Type
Contract
Filled
October 2026

Senior/Principal Statistical Programmer

Location
Raleigh, NC
Type
Direct hire
Filled
October 2026
Talent community

Join our talent community.

Nothing that fits today? Tell us what you do and what you want next. When a position fits, a recruiter who knows your field will be in touch.

Insights

Signal, not noise.

What we are seeing in the market, written for the people who are in it.

Leadership perspective
·  Oct 2026
·  4 min read

Old School Meets New School: What Recruiting Shouldn’t Lose

Faxed resumes and hand-delivered paychecks are gone, and nobody misses them. What recruiting should not lose is the reason they worked: you had to know people.

Case studies
·  Oct 2026
·  1 min read

Not Just a Statistician. The Right Statistician.

How asking better questions helped an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company find rare expertise for an initiative it had never built internally.

Case studies
·  Oct 2026
·  1 min read

Scaling a Global FSP Without a Cash-⁠Flow Bottleneck

How CLS helped a global biometrics services organization build a 15-person SAS programming team quickly, on terms the business could sustain.

Client Contact

Have a hiring problem that isn’t quite a job description yet?

That’s okay. Tell us what is happening with the team, the program, or the workload. We can help you think through the people and the model that make sense.

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