A little about us

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 & 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

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.

Responsibilities

This is a leadership role, with responsibility in both setting strategic direction and managing a high performance team to hit 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 either 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’ decisions points.

Location

• London based (non-remote) or Boston based (non-remote)

What we can offer you in return:

• The opportunity to be a key early member in our team in an exciting, dynamic, and fast-moving field.

• A offer 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.