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Director, Government Partnership Development

Ginkgo Bioworks · Remote, US · Remote

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About Ginkgo Bioworks

Build autonomous labs to accelerate biotech R&D. Program biology like software. Run experiments on our cloud lab or build your own. Trusted by 130+ customers. Backed by SoftBank VF and Felicis.

About the role

We’re seeking an experienced, passionate, and collaborative Director, Government Partnership Development to join our Government team. As Ginkgo continues to grow, we are building out our team to work collaboratively with the U.S.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree with minimum of 8-10 years of relevant work experience in U.S. Government business development and acquisition
  • Understanding of the biotechnology industry and its applications and understanding of HHS and DOW contracting and decision making
  • Understanding of USG acquisition regulations and processes and budgeting processes
  • Demonstrated technical aptitude for complex, new, and disruptive products and services
  • Experience with complex deal structures
  • Enthusiasm about advancing Ginkgo’s mission to make biology easier to engineer
More about this role

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 Bioworks is a publicly-traded biotech company that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe’s most-pressing challenges in health, materials, energy, sustainability, food, and more. Our mission to “make biology easier to engineer” is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative automation, data, and scale capabilities in biological engineering. Our bioengineers make use of Ginkgo’s in-house autonomous lab for designing and building new organisms.

We’re seeking an experienced, passionate, and collaborative Director, Government Partnership Development to join our Government team. As Ginkgo continues to grow, we are building out our team to work collaboratively with the U.S. Government and its labs to accelerate American innovation and support the development of state-of-the art therapeutics, diagnostics, medical countermeasures,...

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