
Associate Director, Business Development, Gene Therapies
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
The Business Development (BD) team is an integral part of a cross-functional team within Ginkgo to help develop and deliver new partnerships in the therapeutics space that reflect our business objectives. As Associate Director of Business Development, Gene Therapies, you will play an integral role supporting the Gene Therapy & Gene Editing mission and executing on gene therapy strategy, building a portfolio of gene therapy opportunities, and maximizing value creation through growth of Ginkgo’s partnerships with innovative therapeutic companies.
Responsibilities
- Externally, leverage the ecosystem of academic, biotech, VCs, and others to identify compelling partnership opportunities in gene therapy.
- Internally, work collaboratively with the Gene Therapy & Gene Editing BD team in identifying new ...
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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)
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.
MissionTo make biology easier to engineer.
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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