Biomanufacturing Operations Lead

**Are you a biochemist with experience in industrial biomanufacturing? Want to help lead scale-up of the world's first drosophila-based expression system and change the future of biotech?**

**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 **Biomanufacturing Operations Lead** exists to establish and own the manufacturing pillar of our operations, rapidly growing our capacity to consistently produce high quality products. You will leverage your biochemistry expertise and experience in industrial biomanufacturing to take locked-in processes from bench protocol to commercial scale, integrating quality standards (ie. GMP, ISOs) when relevant. This role will evolve heavily over time with the needs of the company. In the near term, the focus will be overseeing the transition of our manufacturing operations from bench scale to pilot-scale commercial manufacturing. This will be a highly hands-on position requiring creativity, project management, and deep technical expertise. You will develop processes at scale and be the lead participant in manufacturing runs. In the long-term, this role will evolve to manage a growing manufacturing team of scientists and technicians in an industrial production facility.

The Biomanufacturing Lead will report to our Head of Engineering and work closely and collaboratively with teams across Engineering and Process Development, Protein Biochemistry, Genetics, Cell Sciences and Quality.

**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**:

- Development, management and execution of Future Field’s biomanufacturing strategy, encompassing the scale-up of processes from bench scale to pilot scale and beyond
- Managing a downstream manufacturing department and ensuring execution of production plans, compliance, and project scheduling
- Hands-on manufacturing of recombinant protein products at bench, pilot and industrial scales in a quality and regulatory compliant environment
- Providing technical and scientific knowledge and supervision to personnel and the overall direction of projects. Act as a technical resource across disciplines and provide critical input to areas around protein biochemistry, industrial biomanufacturing, and downstream process development and optimization
- Managing workflows to ensure quality, prioritization, and timeliness. Creating and managing project plans, production and procurement schedules, manufacturing inventory management and overseeing production runs.
- Identifying and mitigating risks in downstream manufacturing operations that could negatively impact delivery of safe and efficacious products
- Working closely with the site leadership, Quality and Regulatory peers to align with requirements prescribed by different regulatory bodies to ensure compliant efficacious products make it to market
- Authoring, reviewing and approving controlled master documents including standard operating procedures, batch r