Senior Director of Technical Business Development - Biocatalysis
Full Time
Boston, MA 02210
Posted
Job description
Gingko Introduction
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.
Team Introduction
The Pharma BD team is razor focused on certain applications of the Ginkgo platform in the manufacture and development of certain therapeutic areas, small molecules, and diagnostics. A subset of those applications is the engineering of enzymes for biocatalysis, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
Specific Role Description
As a Senior Director of Technical Business Development Professional, you will be responsible for supporting biocatalysis deals. Your work is where the rubber meets the road. You will be responsible for liaising with the relevant Ginkgo technical teams, the growth and BD teams, and the customer to develop relevant enzyme engineering services for the development of next gen biocatalysts. Experience working with pharma and diagnostics companies and familiarity with their respective enzyme related challenges is key. Ability to come up to speed quickly on the Ginkgo Platform is critical. Creativity and flexibility are second nature to you.
Responsibilities
- Meet with customers to discuss their needs and pitch Ginkgo’s technical solutions.
- Advise on specs of the buildout of manufacturing / scale up capabilities for enzyme supply
- Present at conference technical presentation
- Write technical proposals
Requirements
- Requisite education: PhD Chemistry / Biochemistry
- Min of twelve years with a Bachelors of industrial relevant experience. Level/title depends on education and experience.
Please note: This role will be a remote opportunity, with a travel to the Boston office location at least 1 week out of a month.
To learn more about Ginkgo, check out some recent press:
What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
Ginkgo Raises $70 Million to Tackle Covid-19 Testing (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks to Build Infrastructure for Rapid Epidemic Response (PR Newswire)
How to Test Every American for COVID-19, Every Day (The Atlantic)
The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything (The Economist)
Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
Ginkgo Bioworks Is Turning Human Cells into On-Demand Factories (WIRED)
Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.
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