(Associate) People Partner Director, Insitro
$173-242k
This role is eligible for participation in our Annual Performance Bonus Plan (based on company targets by role level and annual company performance) and our Equity Incentive Plan
3-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
Machine learning drug discovery & development
Open for applications
Machine learning drug discovery & development
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$173-242k
This role is eligible for participation in our Annual Performance Bonus Plan (based on company targets by role level and annual company performance) and our Equity Incentive Plan
3-5 days a week in office (South San Francisco, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring better drugs faster to the patients who can benefit most, through machine learning and data at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of People function experience including experience in high-growth environments building People processes and structures from the ground up
- 5+ years specifically in a HRBP / People Partner role working directly with leaders at the Director- and VP-level to support them on organizational and employee issues
- Biotech/Pharma experience is required, ideally including in a company with a strong Data Science or Machine Learning element to their business model
- Demonstrated functional competence across core People areas, including organizational design, talent and performance management, employee relations, change management, and strategic workforce planning
- Experience leading small teams of HR professionals and coaching them to success
- Respected just as much for your business judgment as for your HR expertise
- Deeply responsible and accountable with a strong attention to detail and organization, meaning your team never drops the many things you are juggling
- Always looking for more information and data to strengthen your work and impact
- Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust and relationships with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds at all levels
- An exceptional communicator in both written and verbal interactions; clear, concise, and courageous in giving tough but supportive and respectful feedback when needed
- At your best leading through ambiguity and constant change, nimble and responsive to short-term surprises while still driving progress on longer-term initiatives
- Continually questioning the status quo, as you look for opportunities to innovate and break convention where you think better results can be achieved
- Motivated by challenges and bring a positive tone, an eye for solutions, and proactive energy for rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever needs to be done
- Passionate about making a difference in the world and for patients
What the job involves
- Our (Associate) Director, People Partner will be a key leader in bringing this people vision and strategy to life, aiming to set a new standard for the employee experience in our industry
- You will coach and support our leaders, managers, and employees through varied situations, including employee relations, team and organizational design, and talent development
- In this role, you will report directly to insitro's Chief People Officer/Interim Chief People Officer and be a key member of their leadership team
- Strategic Partnership & Organizational Effectiveness:
- Advise executives on how to align manager and employee capabilities to the mid-to-long-term business needs
- Work with leaders across the company to translate our business strategy and priorities into people and organization-related initiatives that accelerate our progress
- Support senior management in translating company mission and goals into sustainable people and organizational strategies, programs, practices, and behaviors
- Diagnose root causes of work environment issues, disruptive team dynamics, and ineffective organizational setups
- Talent Development & Coaching:
- Coach and advise leaders to make them self-sufficient as strong managers in areas such as leadership team effectiveness, organizational planning, change management, and talent management
- Be a trusted partner to people managers and team members alike and proactively address issues that may be holding people and teams back from doing their best work
- Bring both best practices as well as fresh problem-solving on issues of talent management and development, organizational design, retention, and engagement
- People Operations & Compliance:
- Partner closely with our Legal team on employee relations issues and ensure we are always fully compliant with local, state, and federal laws and requirements
- Closely collaborate with other People team leaders to create and execute a holistic strategy in how we hire, engage, develop, and inspire team members
- Draw on and create new quantitative (employee surveys, people analytics) and qualitative (roundtables, exit interviews) insights to shape and strengthen our priorities
Our take
The synthetic biology market is rapidly growing, projected to increase from $10.7B in 2021 to over $74.7B by 2031. This growth is fueled by advances in biotechnology and expanding applications in healthcare, agriculture, and energy.
With these rapid advancements, insitro is seizing the opportunity to lead the way. The company is transforming drug discovery by combining machine learning with high-throughput biology. By using AI, insitro aims to overcome the bottlenecks of traditional methods, driving down costs and enabling the development of more effective treatments.
To help it on its mission, insitro recently secured strategic agreements with Eli Lilly for metabolic disease treatments and it also expanded its leadership in AI/ML. With this, the company is surely set to accelerate drug development, promising a future of faster and more effective treatments for patients.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2021
$400m
SERIES C
May 2020
$143m
SERIES B
Total funding: $643m
Company benefits
- Complete Healthcare Coverage: Take your health seriously without worrying about the costs. insitro offers comprehensive coverage with low premiums for you and your family
- Wellness Benefits: Prioritize your well-being beyond medical care. insitro offers a comprehensive range of benefits tailored to support all aspects of wellness
- Mental Health Support: Our generous healthcare plans include access to digital mental health platforms with a range of services for you and your loved ones
- Supportive Time Off Policies: Flexible vacation time, generous paid parental and bereavement leaves, and a year-end shutdown week
- Support for Hybrid Work: Balance work and your personal commitments with in-person, hybrid and remote options based on the team and role. We support you with home office setup reimbursement as well as co-work space stipends for remote workers
- Formal Learning and Training Programs: Partake in formal programs to help you grow and develop, from day 1 onboarding to new manager training to our annual, in vivo week
- Self Development: Annual personal budget for books, external training, and conferences that nurture you professional passions and development interests
- Access to Knowledge Leaders: Engage with in-house and visiting scholars and experts throughout the year at special events designed exclusively for insitrocytes
- Extensive HQ Benefits: Our insitro HQ offers free daily meals via an onsite cafe and coffee shop, a free fitness facility, an onsite childcare center, and free commuter shuttle buses
- Social Connection: get to know your colleagues at our weekly HQ happy hours, celebrations for special cultural events, and casual meet-ups for sports, music, outdoor activities, and more
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Daphne Koller
(Founder & CEO)Co-founder of engageli and previously Coursera. They also spent a year at CalicoLabs as the Chief Computing Ofificer and over 18 years at Stanford University as a Professor.
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