People and Operations Partner, Basecamp Research
$80-130k
+ Equity package
3-5 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
DNA analysis and environmental monitoring
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DNA analysis and environmental monitoring
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$80-130k
+ Equity package
3-5 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To turn biodiversity into an asset class, to make protecting biodiversity financially attractive.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6 years experience working within a biotech startup or a research-driven, R&D-focused environment
- Familiarity with professional employer organizations; own relationship with our PEO and manage payroll and benefits provisions end to end
- A strong track record of coaching and supporting managers and team members
- Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential issues with sound judgment and discretion
- A proactive, resourceful approach, with confidence in finding solutions independently
- Genuine curiosity for problem-solving and applying new tools or approaches to scale people practices and reduce administrative burden
- Deep alignment with Basecamp Research’s values and a commitment to embedding them across the organisation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trust and lasting relationships
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced People & Operations Partner – USA to become the first embedded people partner supporting our science and genetic editing leaders and teams
- This role will be the first dedicated People team member in the USA, and will play a big part in ensuring we continue to scale our R&D culture across 2026 and beyond
- You will report to the VP of People and work closely with our Chief Scientific Officer to play a major role in contributing to performance, growth, engagement, people operations, workplace facilities and culture
- Operating across both strategic and hands-on work, this role is ideal for someone who enjoys building foundations while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day execution
- This is a highly influential opportunity for a people partner who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments and brings together commercial insight, strong HR expertise, and the adaptability to design and deliver at the same time
- Please note: This is an onsite role based at our Cambridge, Massachusetts lab and office
- Serve as a trusted advisor, coach, and partner to managers and teams within our science organisation
- Work closely with the People and Talent teams to deliver seamless operations and an exceptional end-to-end employee experience
- Lead employee relations matters with care, fairness, and consistency, always aligned with our values
- Act on behalf of senior management and resolve workplace issues with facilities. Main point of contact for the Building Management Team
- Support managers through performance management, development planning, feedback, and sensitive or complex conversations
- Own and manage employee lifecycle end to end; onboarding, offboarding and paid time off processes, ensuring employees experience respect, clarity, and support throughout
- Share insights and contribute ideas that strengthen our high-performance culture
- Partner with the wider People team on initiatives spanning the full employee lifecycle
- Bring a growth mindset to your work, continuously learning and evolving your own practice
- Strengthen culture and communication by driving values alignment, clear internal messaging, and cohesion across global teams
Our take
Conceived after the founders underwent the ‘Return to Vatnajokull’ ski expedition, Basecamp Research is a biological data company that is building BaseDiscovery, a platform using DNA analysis and environmental monitoring to discover protein products that will improve our understanding of the natural world.
Basecamp Research has entered the market at a time where technology is understood as key to shaping the way we respond to global problems like climate change. The company’s combination of exploration with data science and machine learning is a different approach previously seen in the biodiversity sector but is an exciting step towards more innovative solutions to this pressing global crisis.
Basecamp Research has achieved Series B funding, which will help it to accelerate its data collection, expanding its foundational dataset that already contains 100 times more advanced biological systems than public databases used by researchers. Having won Gold at the AWS awards, it also secures deals with indigenous people to share the royalties it receives from genome and data sales, exemplifying a uniquely ethical business model.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2024
$60m
SERIES B
Dec 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $80m
Company benefits
- The opportunity to be a key member in an exciting, dynamic, and fast-moving field
- A fun, flexible, and supportive work environment in the centre of London, and an emphasis on collaboration and personal development
- Highly collaborative culture, we always work cross team and cross function, with engineers, data scientists, and biologists working directly together to tackle complex issues
- Competitive compensation including equity
- Comprehensive medical cover with AXA
- Critical Illness and Group Income Protection
- Pension Scheme
- Generous PTO
- Enhanced parental policy
- Childcare scheme with YellowNest
- Bike2Work Scheme
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Glen Gowers
(Co-Founder)Former Scientific Lead for the Return To Vatnajökull Expedition. Earned a PhD in Synthetic Biology. Co-founded and lead the iGEM team from Oxford University.
Oliver Vince
(Co-Founder)Former Expedition Leader for the Return To Vatnajökull Expedition. Earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Previously an Undergraduate Tutor at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
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