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Protein Biochemistry Lead
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**Are you an experienced protein biochemist looking for your next adventure? Want to optimize the world's first drosophila-based expression system and change the future of biotech for the better?**
**At Future Fields, we’re changing the world - one fruit fly at a time.**
We’ve developed a novel insect-based expression platform that allows us to make the world’s most sustainable recombinant proteins.
**We’re unleashing the next biorevolution.**
At Future Fields, we are continually learning and evolving. We know we don’t have all the answers, but we try to ask all the questions. We believe in “failing forward” and leveraging our mistakes to help us grow. We never want our team to feel constrained by the status quo and we don’t judge ideas based on where they come from. We actively work to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and psychological safety through transparency, structure, and open communication. We know it sounds cliche, but every employee really is a valued and equal member of the Future Fields team.
**Come find your purpose with Future Fields.**
We are a young and rapidly growing venture backed startup (with support from awesome investors including Bee Partners, Y Combinator, and more). We’ve even had a shoutout from Ironman himself Joining our team now means you’ll have the opportunity to shape our culture and products, to lead others, and to influence the direction of our company. Perhaps most importantly - you’ll be joining a team that is genuinely energized by this work and the meaningful potential of biotech to change the world.
**About the role**
The **Protein Biochemistry Lead** oversees all employees and functions of the **Protein Biochemistry Team**, which ultimately focuses on the development of assays and methodologies to purify and/or produce recombinant protein products for commercial sale. The Lead supervises, supports and trains team members, monitors progress towards goals, develops new research methodologies, and sets team strategy to ensure high-level company objectives are achieved. The Lead works closely with other R&D Team Leads to ensure a cohesive R&D strategy, and is supported by the VP of R&D.
**As a senior member of the Future Fields team, _all Leads are responsible for: _**
- Supervising, supporting and training team members.
- Developing team-specific strategies to support high-level company goals.
- Monitoring progress towards goals and course correcting as required to ensure objectives are met.
- Setting and monitoring team OKRs.
- Continuously exploring, developing, optimizing, testing, and implementing new methodologies and processes.
- Collaborating with other team leads and the executive to ensure cross-functional alignment on work plans, strategies and timelines.
- Conducting “hands on” bench work whenever needed to maximize team capacity, optimize methodologies and aggressively progress R&D outcomes.
**This role owns**:
- Leading the purification and characterization of recombinant protein products to enable protocol transfer to manufacturing group.
- Developing the R&D strategy for the Protein Biochemistry team, including the development of new assays and implementing these into the Future Fields’ suite of methodologies.
- Conducting hands-on lab work to increase our R&D capabilities for the purpose of expanding our suite of products and improving our overall protein production processes.
- Managing workflow of the protein group to ensure quality, prioritization, and timeliness across R&D and production.
- Cross department collaboration with genetics, engineering, and cell sciences teams to ensure alignment towards company goals.
- Characterization of purified material using chromatographic and other biophysical techniques to generate data packages for lead finding, optimization, and assessment.
- Promoting the use of novel experimental approaches within sub-function; routinely investigates and creates innovative processes, hypotheses, and methodologies.
- Technical supervision, training and mentorship of the downstream scientists and associates.
- Innovating and spearheading the development of downstream process technologies that can result in significant increases in efficiency and purity.
- Assuring GMP success through effective tech transfer and support of GMP manufacturing. Coordinate efforts with manufacturing to achieve program success.
- Anticipating experimental needs and understanding an individual experiment in the context of the entire company’s goals.
- Analyzing data, reporting, and communicating key results to VP of R&D (weekly basis) and other relevant colleagues.
- Reporting and communicating progress towards key metrics and milestones (Weekly Team meetings; ORK updates).
**This role assists by**:
- Supporting in recruitment, interviewing and onboarding of new team members.
- Developing methods to perform in-depth protein characterization including but not limited to protein quantification an
