Lifebit is building the world’s first intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights.
We just closed an over $3M funding round co-led by Pentech and Connect Ventures after graduating from Techstars London 2017’s cohort.
We are building a cloud-based cognitive system that can reason about DNA data like humans do. This offers researchers/R&D professionals, and their corresponding organisations (ie. pharmaceutical), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data and provides actionable insights.
Lifebit is supported by an international team with very diverse backgrounds and a flat team structure. We like to empower and let our team get involved in any aspect of the business.
The suitable candidate will help to run operations at Lifebit and work alongside the CEO to help build processes in the company to scale from seed stage to series A. This role is targeted at a generalist with a science background who is passionate about getting involved in the operations of an early stage tech company. The role is a senior management position and spans everything from signing commercial contracts to hiring a law firm to developing new processes and strategies.
Responsibilities:
– Develop, in collaboration with the CEO, an annual operating plan that supports Lifebit’s long-
term business strategy;
– Develop, in collaboration with the CEO & Board, the company’s annual Financial plan and
report on it throughout the year;
– Assist the CEO in overseeing Lifebit’s achievements and competitiveness within its industry;
– Evaluate the performance of senior executives and management team;
– Assist with hiring processes and prospecting and manage employment contracts, salaries etc.;
– Help to shape and maintain our culture and team and the office environment;
– Manage commercial projects and relations;
– Building out process and procedure at the company e.g, OKRs, KPI Dashboards, etc.;
– Oversee product management and development team processes;
– Develop methods to make the business run faster and free up time for the team to work more
productively and efficiently; and
– Carry out any other task as required including but not limited to tasks related to legal and
commercial contracts and approvals.
Requirements:
– You have helped a startup scale from seed to Series A;
– You have been involved in hiring and team coordination;
– You have experience overseeing product and coordinating development teams;
– You have experience with Investor Relations and monthly/quarterly reporting;
– You have a scientific/technical background and hold a Master’s degree in a related subject;
– You are extremely detail-oriented and extraordinarily organised;
– You have great interpersonal skills and are a great communicator and presenter;
– You are a generalist who can touch many components of a business;
– You are meticulously organised and interested in productivity;
– You love ticking off tasks and working through a backlog;
– You have seen a company scale and built out mechanisms to handle this.
Salary: £50.000-65.000.
Equity: Yes.
Applications close on August 31st.