People Operations Lead, Ginkgo Bioworks
$111.3-157.6k
+ Company stock awards
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Biological engineering product developer
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Biological engineering product developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$111.3-157.6k
+ Company stock awards
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Ginkgo Bioworks' mission is to make biology easy to engineer.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a disciplined, systems-oriented People Operations professional to support our People Solutions function
- You are a Workday power-user who excels at maintaining operational stability within a fast-evolving organization
- This role is designed for an individual who can navigate shifting priorities with composure, translate complex tasks into reliable workflows, and maintain rigorous data integrity
- You possess the technical aptitude to manage data across multiple platforms and the proactive mindset to support vendor lifecycles and compliance audits
- Experience: 8-10 years of HR Operations experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
- Systems Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of Workday HCM is required. You are highly proficient in G-Suite, particularly with advanced formulas in Google Sheets. Familiarity with Greenhouse Recruiting and Ironclad (or similar contract tools) is a plus
- Agile Problem Solver: You are comfortable in a dynamic, high-growth environment. You stay organized when priorities shift and can manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Detail-Oriented: You have an obsessive eye for accuracy, viewing yourself as a critical line of defense for data integrity
- Strategic Thinker: You look for the "why" behind a task and how the effects of a task upstream and with countand enjoy finding ways to make manual processes more efficient
- High Agency: You are a self-starter who takes ownership of your work queue and proactively seeks out solutions before escalating issues
- Disciplined Project Leader: You possess strong organizational hygiene and the ability to move a project from concept to completion. You don’t just manage tasks; you manage timelines, stakeholders, and expectations. You are skilled at breaking down complex People initiatives into actionable steps, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks even when navigating shifting priorities
- Continuously improving. You're never satisfied with "good enough." You regularly ask: What can we automate? Where are we losing time? What would a better process look like? — and then you go build it
What the job involves
- Operational:
- Lead end-to-end Workday transaction support, ensuring accuracy and compliance in employee lifecycle events including hires, terminations, promotions, compensation changes, and organizational moves
- Serve as the primary operational owner for People Ops, ensuring processes run smoothly across HR programs, audits and compliance
- Manage the People team ticketing system, resolving complex inquires and improving workflows
- Support benefits administration and annual open enrollment by enhancing employee experience, streamlining communications, and strengthening cross-functional collaboration
- Support execution of annual compensation programs (equity, salary refresh, promotion planning) by managing reporting requirements, ensuring data accuracy, and partnering cross-functionally to implement compensation changes in Workday
- Partner with the Senior Manager, People Systems and Strategy to conduct end-user testing for new configurations, influencing adoption of improved tools, concepts, and system enhancements
- Process employment verifications, employment letters, and unemployment claims processes, enhancing service delivery standards and improving turnaround times through process refinement
- Strategic Oversight:
- Serve as a subject matter expert in People operations, applying deep functional expertise to optimize Workday processes, strengthen data integrity, and drive continuous improvement across HR systems and workflows
- Identify process gaps and proactively proposed new methods and processes related to employee lifecycle management, ticketing workflows, reporting, audits, and compliance activities
- Lead and coordinate audits, ensuring risk mitigation and regulatory compliance while strengthening internal controls and operational rigor
- Deliver high-value reporting and workforce insights to business leaders, translating data into actionable information that supports decision-making and organizational effectiveness
- Oversee People team vendors and contract lifecycles, lead renewal negotiations, and project manage RFP processes to introduce innovative partners and scalable solutions that elevate People operations
Our take
Research into the programmable nature of biological cells presents massive opportunities for almost every industry, but the technology is hardly accessible. Bespoke programming of cells requires cutting-edge lab equipment and an in-depth understanding of microbiology, something that would not seem feasible to the average product designer.
Ginkgo Bioworks sells programmable cell development services to provide access to the technology to industries outside of medicine. Whilst the company has already worked on medical products such as vaccines for Moderna, it will research and design products based on programmed cells for any product that it believes holds value.
The startup’s approach to providing cell programming services outside of the medical sector is smart, as an increasingly high number of industries recognize the potential for bespoke cell-based materials. Ginkgo also provides an opportunity for innovation where it previously was not possible by taking the research and design into its own hands where companies would usually need to facilitate such services within their company.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
May 2020
$70m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$290m
SERIES E
Total funding: $792.7m
Company benefits
- Growth and development opportunities
- Unlimited paid time off
- Comprehensive health and parental leave benefits
- Flexible work options
- Commuter benefits
- State-of-the-art labs, work spaces, and conference rooms
- Competitive 401K contribution
Company HQ
Seaport District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Reshma Shetty
(COO)Reshma studied for a PhD in Biological Engineering at MIT, having worked as a Research Assistant at Cambridge and Utah universities. They co-founded Ginkgo Bioworks in September 2008.
Barry Canton
(CTO)Barry studied at University College Dublin before taking a PhD in Biological Engineering at MIT. They co-founded Ginkgo Bioworks in 2008 on graduation, working there since.
Jason Kelly
(CEO)Previously founded OpenWetWare while a graduate student at MIT. At MIT they earned a PhD in Biological Engineering.
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