Manager or Associate Director - San Mateo, United States - BigHat Biosciences

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    The Role: BigHat Biosciences is seeking an exceptional Manager or Associate Director* on the Platform team to lead the high-throughput production, reagents, and assays support functions.
    *At BigHat we believe in titles that are commensurate with skill set, relative organizational impact, and value contribution; more or less experienced candidates are encouraged to apply, with the understanding that responsibilities and title would adjust as appropriate.

    Responsibilities Include:

    • Create and execute a vision for the growth of high-throughput platform production, reagents development, and assay support functions.
    • Manage and grow a team of scientists, including providing scientific mentorship and guidance, and fostering growth opportunities.
    • Proactively identify, architect, and implement solutions that effectively scale our processes and drive continuous improvement across all areas of ownership.
    • Represent the platform production team in collaboration and coordination efforts across the company, from new program onboarding to weekly priorities.
    • Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify and rectify root causes affecting BigHats platform processes.
    • Drive the growth of BigHats internal reagents capabilities, encompassing development, manufacturing, and quality control.
    • Lead assay support functions with emphasis on increasing platform robustness and flexibility, optimizing production assays, and refining performance qualification processes.
    • Partner closely with scientific, engineering, operations, and data science teams on growing BigHats platform and processes.
    • (Preferred) Provide hands-on bench support for critical experiments as needed.