Senior Director, Vertical Platform Lead
Estimated Pay | $31 per hour |
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Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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About this job
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
Ginkgo is a high-growth, well-capitalized public biotech company in Boston that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our mission to "make biology easier to engineer" is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative data, automation, and scale in biological engineering. Ginkgo has built a platform for "cell engineering" to use AI/ML tools for DNA design, long DNA synthesis and assembly, next-gen sequencing, automated culturing, assay development, high-throughput high-content screening to advance pre-clinical research and development as well as manufacturing process optimization across therapeutic modalities.
Ginkgo is a partner driven company with over 100 programs running on the platform. We are seeking to enable drug-developers but have no designs to develop therapeutics ourselves. Within Ginkgo, the Mammalian Engineering team consists of a set of scientists and engineers with subject matter expertise across cell therapy, gene therapy, rna therapeutics, and biologics. This team is responsible for translating challenges our partners have into actionable R&D programs that leverage the broader Ginkgo platform's resources (aka the Foundry); and then manage and execute on those programs to deliver solutions on time and budget. Ginkgo has a number of public and confidential programs in RNA therapeutics, including developing next generation circular RNA and mRNA constructs with Pfizer, and triggering cell-type specific circularization with . We have also invested in RNA circularization technology through acquisition of Circularis. As a partner-driven platform company we are not focused on any particular therapeutic area and are generally interested in enabling the appropriate pharmacological characteristics for a partner's payload. These efforts blend with our teams' efforts in gene therapy and delivery technologies.
Reporting to the SVP, Foundry, the Vertical Lead will be responsible for building and managing our portfolio of vertical-specific therapeutic programs. Our verticals include RNA, Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy, Target Discovery and Biologics. Candidates for these roles will have had experiences both developing platform-specific approaches and driving preclinical and/or clinical programs with increasing leadership responsibilities throughout their career. The position requires a combination of deep technical understanding, general business acumen, project management skills, superior communication skills, and the ability to grow and lead scientific teams. Internal Title: Senior Director, RNA Therapeutics
Responsibilities:
- Leading and developing a team of scientists and engineers to deliver on programs across the portfolio
- Communicate performance to leadership and external customers
- Consult on and be aware of the Commercial vertical strategy and Commercial/URAD program roadmap within the vertical in alignment with leaders from Mammalian Engineering and Commercial.
- Responsible for the capability offering roadmap into the Foundry.
- Work in conjunction with Ginkgo's Commercial Team to directly interface with current and potential external partners to drive more programs on the platform. Provide vertical-specific input on the Mammalian portfolio strategy.
- Use those conversations to understand gaps and opportunities for Ginkgo to help vertical-specific developers. Formulate a strategy to address gaps or take advantage of opportunities through internal programs, licensing, acquisition, etc. that could drive significant value.
- Establish strong partnerships with Ginkgo's Foundry teams to develop a strategy to scale the numbers of programs Ginkgo can support- through standardization, institution of processes, etc.
- Define the strategic direction for Foundry pods within the vertical in alignment with leaders from Mammalian Engineering, translating our business needs into how we will execute.
- Participate in customer interactions in collaboration with Business Development and participate in scoping with the Platform Performance Leader (PPL)
- Accountable for the output of Foundry pods within the vertical.
- Assist with shaping Ginkgo's overall direction as a company and support its evolving needs, as necessary
Minimum Requirements:
- PhD in biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, computational biology or related field. Or equivalent experience with a Bachelor's degree
- 11+ years of research experience in biopharma R&D settings with at least 3 years industry experience in one of more verticals. Experiences both in platform development and program leadership
- Deep experience and technical leadership in one or more vertical-specific modalities
- Proven track record of leading and organizing successful teams and mentoring both managers and individual contributors
- Excellent project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and organization skills, with the ability to effectively convey project plans and complex technical information to a wide range of internal teams, executive leadership, and external partners
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