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    Ginkgo Bioworks
    Posted about 2 years ago

    Associate Director IE/CI Business Operations

    Job Description

    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. 


     

    Team Introduction:

    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.  As Ginkgo enters a phase where demand for our services has never been higher, we are building a new Operations function with the mandate to drive scale across the organization. Since 2015, Ginkgo has witnessed an exponential increase in output alongside a sustained decline in the average cost per test. To help continue this impressive trend, Ginkgo is building a Industrial Engineering/Continuous Improvement (IE/CI) team within the Operations function. This team will design and implement new tools, methods, and ...

    The Real Dill ☘️

    Startups are private companies, but once they IPO they become "public"...meaning the average person has more access to their financials. In the case of Ginkgo Bioworks, it hasn't generated as much revenue as anticipated, but still has a ton of money in the bank to work on different projects (see the news article on ChatGPT for DNA). It'll be important to monitor its performance over the coming months and years to see how the company evolves considering its previous financial performances, but its definitely working on some really cool initiatives that have implications across healthcare, pharma, food, and more. (November 2023)

    JL

    Jon Lee, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MBA

    Pickle co-founder

    About Ginkgo Bioworks

    Design, develop, and optimize biological products across industries, including vaccines, meat substitutes, and circular fashion.

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    MissionTo make biology easier to engineer.

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    Wow FactorWorking on initiatives across society: food, drug development, scientific research, and more.

    Company benefits

    • ⛷️ Unlimited PTO
    • 🐣 Maternity/paternity leave
    • 🏦 401K/retirement
    • ✈️ Travel stipends

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