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.

In recent months, we’ve been inspired and heartened by the tremendous public health response to COVID-19, and recognize that a similar scale of effort is needed by the biotech community to find long-term solutions to this crisis.  In particular, testing is essential in order to resume our daily rhythms:  communities need testing to reunite their people and culture.  Businesses need testing to reopen their offices and provide confidence to their teams and stakeholders.  And schools need testing to be able to reconvene their campuses and research communities.  To respond to this acute and widespread need for COVID-19 testing, Ginkgo has developed a SARS-CoV-2 screening service – Concentric by Ginkgo – that is designed to provide broader access to COVID-19 diagnostic testing solutions.  We’re building increased Foundry capacity to support high rates of testing frequency for our clients, offering an end-to-end, onsite testing service designed to test large communities of individuals.  Performed at high-scale and high-throughput, this additional testing capacity will be essential for organizations, institutions, and companies to be able to reconvene their teams and reopen their communities.

Within the People Operations (PO) team, we propel Ginkgo’s mission and efforts by helping to create the most effective team of GMO engineers the world has ever seen. Ginkgoneans are free to unleash their creative energies on engineering biology because we create a vibrant, supportive, and flexible environment where they can thrive. 

We’re honored to be a trusted resource for all of Ginkgo, and are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic People Operations (HR) Business Partner to join our team.  In this contract role, you will provide strategic and tactical guidance for Concentric by Ginkgo, working closely with People Operations and Clinical Operations leadership to support our large-scale COVID-19 testing service. Specifically, you will oversee all of Concentric’s recruiting, onboarding, training, performance management, employee relations, policy/procedures creation and implementation, and compliance. This leadership role will be critical to the success of Ginkgo’s diagnostic operations platform.

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We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.  

We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.