Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge & Head of Compounding - Turnkey Robotics
Listed compensation
$150,000 - $275,000/year
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time · on-site
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
Company Description
We're building the modern compounding pharmacy of the future by pairing the best pharmacy experts with modern technology. We aim to offer the most reliable, fast turnaround, and highest quality compounding services to providers and telehealth partners. We're backed by the investors that backed Palantir, SpaceX, and Neuralink.
Role Description
We are seeking our Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC) and Head of Compounding for a full-time, on-site role based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The individual will lead and oversee all nonsterile and sterile compounding pharmacy operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and developing efficient workflows.
The individual will serve as the first pharmacist in charge for the facility and will be responsible for building a top tier pharmacist and pharmacy technician team.
Key responsibilities will include production of sterile and nonsterile compounds and building out our compounding facility, building out our quality and compliance processes, managing pharmacy staff, optimizing inventory, and contributing to strategic planning efforts to strengthen the organization's pharmacy infrastructure.
The candidate will play a key role in creating and implementing processes that ensure safety, efficiency, and innovation within the pharmacy practice.
Ideal Qualifications
- Strong expertise in Pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice, and in particular in hands-on compounding of both sterile and non-sterile compounds
- 5+ years of work experience at a 503A compounding facility, ideally as the pharmacist in charge
- Strong experience and familiarity with USP 795 / 797 compliance
- Active pharmacist license including a California License
- Experience with compounding pharmacy software
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with experience managing and mentoring a team
- Knowledge of regulations and compliance standards related to sterile and nonsterile compounding
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to implement new processes effectively
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree or equivalent qualification is preferred
Entrepreneurial instincts and a desire to bring modern software and robotic automation into the compounding world to produce prescriptions of the highest quality and safety
Compensation
150-275k depending on experience, alongside competitive cash bonuses and 90th percentile equity compensation.
Key Responsibilities
The Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge will oversee all sterile and non-sterile compounding operations while building out the facility and pharmacy team. They are responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing workflows, and integrating robotic automation into the pharmacy infrastructure.
Requirements
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience at a 503A compounding facility and hold an active California pharmacist license. Strong expertise in USP 795/797 compliance and demonstrated leadership capabilities are required for this role.
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge & Head of Compounding - Turnkey Robotics at Pear VC a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 10% in Pharmacy — ranked against 9,708 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc.
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 60% have no call, 65% require no weekends.
Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$213k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $192k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Palo Alto
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $3.26M≈ 21.7× annual pay
- Typical market rent
- $4,678/mo≈ 37% of gross pay
- Residents’ average commute
- 21 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 110.4
- State income tax
- Up to 13.3%
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Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
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