About the Company

We are unlocking the potential of our planet’s unexplored biodiversity to build sustainable solutions with our biotechnology partners whilst demonstrating the value of our world’s undiscovered biology.

At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a diverse, exciting, fun, and flexible place to work. We are a team of biologists, data scientists, and explorers united by a sense of adventure and the belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet’s greatest challenges - we just have to go out and discover them!

If you feel passionate about the power of biology to show the inherent value of nature and to build a better world, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

Job Title: Director of R&D: Database Growth
Location: Head Office (Farringdon, London) or BCR Boston
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: R&D

We are looking for a Director to lead our database growth R&D efforts, developing new methods for continuous improvement on our data generation. This role could be based in our Basecamp Research headquarters laboratory in London or our Boston laboratory and will focus on developing methods to support our global biodiscovery work.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic direction and manage a high-performance team to achieve company-moving targets.
• Work across teams to identify the biggest strategic opportunities for improvement in our production methods for database growth.
• Recruit and manage scientists for the Database Growth R&D team, building an ambitious and high-performing team culture.
• Effectively communicate the impact of R&D pushes, productionalizing successful new methods to the Collaboration and Production teams.
• Horizon scan for emergent methodologies within or outside of molecular biology approaches that could add additional value to BaseGraph growth.

Skills and Expertise

• A minimum of 5 years of proven experience in leading a high-performance team to hit ambitious targets.
• A track record in the development of novel molecular biology methods, ideally in non-model organisms.
• Expertise in next-generation sequencing platforms.
• Comfort in managing projects requiring involvement of both wet lab and computational team members.
• Proactive and motivated - eager to find new opportunities and to quickly move the team to ‘go/no-go’ decision points.

What We Can Offer You

• The opportunity to be a key early member in our team in an exciting, dynamic, and fast-moving field.
• A fun, flexible, and supportive work environment with an office in the centre of London and an emphasis on collaboration and personal development.
• Exploring the world’s untapped biodiversity.