About the role

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.

You will have the opportunity to build out a database growth R&D team around you, and will identify and strategically prioritize development of new methods for growing the value of our biodiversity database, whether by increasing generated data quality, diversity, or scalability. You will have the opportunity to work closely with Basecamp Research's Collaboration team, who run our global network of biodiversity partners, the Production team, who coordinate continued database growth, and the Data team, who are using the data for novel biotechnology product design and bio-AI development.

The ideal candidate will be an innovative and ambitious thinker with a strong track record in the development of novel molecular biology and next generation sequencing methods, ideally in non-model organisms. They will be comfortable with managing projects that require both wet-lab and computational involvement. They will be experienced with managing a high performing team, have a proven ability to foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. They will be able to identify and prioritize R&D workstreams with clear strategic value for the company and be able to deliver to agreed-upon timelines with the data, commercial, and collaborations teams.

If you are a excited by developing methods to gain deeper insights from biodiversity ranging from glaciers to geysers, hydrothermal vents to savannah soils, then you will love the challenges that Basecamp Research has to offer.