Veeva is the leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Our platform and applications allow customers to operate more efficiently and safely in order to bring life saving diagnostics, treatments and medicines to market faster.
Chloe Kearns, Manager, North America R&D and Quality Sales, shares everything you need to know about their Veeva Basics team!
In this Video
Chloe discusses:
- Who is Veeva?
- What is Veeva Basics?
- Details on the team
- Interesting Projects & Challenges
- Why now is a good time to join
Video Transcript
My name is Chloe Kearns, and I am a manager with Veeva Basics. Veeva is a cloud software company that is dedicated exclusively to the life sciences industry. Our mission is to help our customers bring life-saving therapies to patients faster. We were founded on this belief that technology can serve a higher purpose. Veeva provides the software, data, and services that support the full life cycle of drug development and commercialization. While Veeva does not develop the drugs ourselves, our technology is a critical enabler. What truly differentiates Veeva is how we operate. We are the first company to move to become a Public Benefit Corporation. This means we are legally required to balance shareholder value with a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and most importantly, our society. Our aim is to be the industry cloud for life sciences solely. We have purpose-built solutions all on a single platform that we call Vault. We are not a generic horizontal software company, and we do not have disparate technologies that we patch together. We are holistic, we have done this at scale, and we have garnered great credibility. We have 1,000 customers, 8,000 employees globally, and $3 billion in revenue. However, what matters more to me is our value-driven culture: do the right thing, customer success, employee success, and operating with speed.
Veeva Basics is a fast-growing product and business unit designed specifically for emerging biotech companies. I like to spend a little time talking about who these people are. Emerging biotechs are the innovators of our industry, and they are really the ones tackling the world’s most unmet critical medical needs. Emerging biotechs face a 90% failure rate. They operate with limited resources and extreme uncertainty when bringing their drug to market, but they continue to pursue those therapies because they can fundamentally change lives. Veeva Basics was created to reduce the friction for these companies by offering a simple and standardized way to consume our Vault product. We offer Vault in a preconfigured and pre-validated manner. These are applications that require zero implementation; they are always current and maintained by Veeva. The goal of Veeva Basics is to make our applications ubiquitous across emerging biotech, enabling teams to focus on their science instead of on our systems. That philosophy of simplifying, standardizing, and scaling extends beyond the product and into how our team actually operates and how we plan to grow.
The Veeva Basics team operates as a startup within Veeva Systems while being 100% backed by Veeva themselves. We are about 20 months old now, have a hundred customers, and are growing rapidly. We are a lean startup team with an entrepreneurial spirit and are highly collaborative. What is important is that every single one of us is deeply aligned around our mission, the impact we are trying to achieve, and bringing this with speed. Our team is organized as “two in a box,” meaning we have account partners and our product counterparts. Account partners own the customer relationships from end to end and are empowered to operate like the CEOs of their business. Our product counterparts focus on rapid customer-driven iterations and innovations purpose-built for emerging biotech in our Vault products. This is not a traditional layered enterprise organization. It is designed for ownership, velocity, accountability, and managers that are deeply invested in building and developing strong teams.
Working on Veeva Basics means solving high-impact real-world problems at the intersection of science, regulation, and technology. Examples include helping a first-time biotech founder start up a compliance system in a matter of days instead of months, or having that same biotech pass a surprise FDA audit in just a couple of days. We are also designing solutions that scale with companies—biotechs that start out small but then double and triple in size rapidly, sometimes within a year or six months. We balance simple workflows and a standardized way of bringing drugs to market while meeting the regulatory rigor that is part of our highly regulated industry. Lastly, here in Veeva Basics, we are shaping the future of go-to-market models for emerging biotech, which feels very profound.
Veeva Basics is at a rare and compelling inflection point. Why now? We have proven our product-market fit and have strong customer momentum at our backs. We are a small but scaling team where individuals can still feel like they are shaping direction, culture, and process. Veeva Systems is actively investing in building out Basics for the long term. We have strong leadership support and backing from both within Basics and Veeva broadly. For the right person, a role within Veeva Basics offers meaningful patient-level impact, accelerated personal and professional growth, the ability to own your territory like it is your business, and startup energy with enterprise stability. It also offers a front-row seat to shaping the future of the life sciences industry. This is not just a role. We believe it is an opportunity to help build something enduring, powerful, and scalable, but most importantly, to innovate for a better future.
