[Full Time] Senior Director, Gene Therapy at Ginkgo Bioworks (United States)
Senior Director, Gene Therapy
Ginkgo Bioworks United States
Date Posted: 08 Jun, 2023
Work Location: Boston, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 11+ years
Remote Work: No
Stock Options: No
Vacancies: 1 available
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.
We are looking for a Senior Director, Gene Therapy to continue building and managing our portfolio of gene therapy programs. The ideal candidate will have had experiences both developing gene therapy platforms and driving preclinical and/or clinical programs with increasing leadership responsibilities throughout their career. This is a leadership role reporting to the VP of Mammalian Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Leading and developing a team of scientists and engineers to deliver on programs across the gene therapy portfolio
- Support program leads (and in some cases lead programs) and drive accountability for program progress
- Develop and instill strong project management practices in the team
- Communicate project and team performance to leadership and external customers
- Work in conjunction with Ginkgo’s Commercial Team to directly interface with current and potential external partners to drive more programs on the platform.
- Use those conversations to understand gaps and opportunities for Ginkgo to help GTx developers.
- Establish strong partnerships with Ginkgo’s Foundry teams to develop a strategy to scale the numbers of programs Ginkgo can support.
- Assist with shaping Ginkgo’s overall direction as a company and support its evolving needs, as necessary
Desired Experience and Capabilities
- PhD in biology, bioengineering or related field; 12+ years of research experience in biopharma R&D settings with at least 6 years industry experience in gene therapy
- Deep experience and technical leadership with tackling challenges in tropism, immunogenicity, manufacturability of gene delivery vectors
- 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
- Experience with high-throughput approaches, particularly in drug development
Additional Preferred Capabilities
- Deep experience with AAV gene therapy
- Experiences both in platform development and program leadership
- Strong immunology background
- Good understanding and past usage of quantitative approaches in experimental biology
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.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.
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