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
Ginkgo Datapoints defines the category of the Bio × AI data provider. We work with top pharma, biotech, tech, and techbio companies, and we've built our reputation on high-quality, large-scale, reproducible data generated by automation rather than by hand. We're a fee-for-service partner — our customers own their data, and our incentives are aligned with theirs.
What they're looking for
- Deep Industry Expertise: 10+ years in high-growth biotech or large pharma with a proven track record in functional genomics and discovery research. (We weigh hands-on industry R&D leadership more heavily than a purely academic track record.)
- Buyer's Perspective: You have been an active buyer of discovery / CRO / data-generation services (or led teams that were), and you're motivated to build, on the sell side, something you wished existed as a customer
- Scientific Credibility: PhD (or equivalent experience) in genomics, molecular biology, computational biology, systems biology, or a related field. You are a recognized expert in perturbation biology or modeling and the discovery cascade
- Perturbation Depth: Direct experience with arrayed chemical and/or genetic screening (CRISPR KO / CRISPRi), transcriptomic profiling, and high-content imaging
- Computational Strength with Wetlab Command: A strongly computational profile is very welcome — even ideal. What's essential is a firm, practical understanding of wetlab methods, so you can lead the experimental team credibly
- Translational and clinical biomarkers: experience — or a real passion for — biomarker work in population-scale or direct-to-consumer settings (rather than regulated diagnostics)
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.
Level (Sr. Director) will be set to match the successful candidate's experience.
Ginkgo Datapoints defines the category of the Bio × AI data provider. We work with top pharma, biotech, tech, and techbio companies, and we've built our reputation on high-quality, large-scale, reproducible data generated by automation rather than by hand. We're a fee-for-service partner — our customers own their data, and our incentives are aligned with theirs.
As our Senior Director of Multiomics, you will own the vision, execution, and commercial success of our Multiomics business, including the functional genomics engine behind our Perturbation Response Profiling and Specialized HTS offerings. This is a genuinely intrapreneurial role: you operate at the frontier of business and science, report to the GM of Datapoints, and lead a multidisciplinary team of scientists, automation engineers,...
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