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Operations Generalist

Latch Bio · San Francisco, USA · On-site

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About Latch Bio

Harmonize your Wet and Dry Lab. Backed by Lux.

About the role

You’ll work directly with the COO and Chief of Staff on the company’s most important problems. This isn’t a support role or a ticket queue. You’ll get real problems with real stakes, and you’ll be trusted to figure them out. It’s one of the fastest ways to learn how a high-growth company actually works. Fast learner. You don’t need to know how to do something yet. Give you a week and you’ll know it better than most. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Fast learner. You don’t need to know how to do something yet. Give you a week and you’ll know it better than most
  • Gets things done. You finish what you start, follow up, and close loops without being chased
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. Hand you a messy, half-defined problem and you’ll come back with structure and a plan
  • Detail-oriented, with the bigger picture in mind. You sweat the small stuff because you understand how it connects to everything else
  • Clear communicator. Concise in writing and in person, and equally at home with engineers, scientists, salespeople, and founders
  • Low ego, high ownership. No task is beneath you, and no problem is too big to take a swing at
More about this role

LatchBio

The convergence of laboratory automation, high-throughput assays, and machine learning is moving the medium of biological discovery to silicon. At LatchBio, we are building AI and data infrastructure to accelerate biopharma R&D.

We are 100+ engineers and operators in San Francisco solving the data bottleneck in biology.

Data in biotech has increased 10,000x over the past 10 years.

AI in biopharma will 20x in 7 years. $200m to $4b, 54% CAGR.

We build ubiquitous software, storage, pipelines, & machine learning for all of biology.

50+ new biotech companies onboarded in the past 12 months. $28M Series A from Lux Capital, Coatue, and General Catalyst.

Operations Generalist

We’re growing fast, and every week brings a new problem nobody has solved yet. One week it’s finance, the next it’s hiring, a customer contract, an AI partnership, or an infrastructure bill that doubled overnight.

You’ll work directly with the COO and Chief of Staff on the company’s most important problems. This isn’t a support role or a ticket queue. You’ll get real problems with real stakes, and you’ll be trusted to figure them out. It’s one of the fastest ways to learn how a high-growth company actually...

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