VP of Engineering & Product

About Us:

Culture’s mission is to simplify bioprocess development and make it as fast and easy to scale bioprocesses, as it is to scale software. With this mission, Culture’s first offering enables biopharma, biotechnology, and synthetic biology companies to execute their bioprocessing R&D in the cloud. Our clients design, manage, and analyze bioprocess experiments in Culture’s Console web application. Culture’s offering enables customers to focus on designing and improving their processes versus spending time and effort building out their own high-throughput process development laboratories. Customers remotely observe their processes and analyze data while their experiments are executed in Culture’s cloud bioreactor facility in South San Francisco. The facility is enabled by Culture’s proprietary 250mL and 5L single-use bioreactor technology and software systems.

At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development faster. We value curiosity, communication, collaboration, a customer focused mindset and a drive for results.

The Role

Culture Biosciences is looking for a VP of Engineering and Product to join our growing team. You will own product and engineering at the company. Your purview will include developing engineering and product visions, leading the development of new products, and managing product life cycle for sustaining our launched technologies. From day one, you’ll inherit a dynamic, multidisciplinary team of 20+ members, including multiple team directors and managers as direct reports. This role reports to the CEO.

What you'll do:

• Own our engineering and product development work, including software and hardware development.
• Drive the development cycle of new hardware products from concept to deployment
• Own Culture’s product portfolio and engineering vision and roadmap. 
• Support product launches and manage product life cycle post-launch.
• Build, lead, and develop a team of product managers, hardware engineers, software engineers, and chemical engineers.
• Serve on Culture’s leadership team, helping to set overall company strategy.
• Build deep, collaborative partnerships with cross-functional leaders across our Product, Marketing, and Operations functions to deliver on the product vision.
• Manage budgets and hiring for your teams. 
• Showcase an iterative, data-informed mindset that enables us to quickly test new features and services.

About you:

• Master’s or PhD in an engineering discipline is preferred with 15+ years of industrial experience.
• Experience developing and shipping hardware products to customers in the bioprocessing, biotechnology, or life sciences sector.
• Experience building and leading teams of engineers and product managers.
• Passionate about bioprocessing and biomanufacturing.

In return, we will support you by:

• Placing a high degree of trust in your ideas and execution.
• Providing a low-stress work environment.
• Making ourselves available for collaboration.
• Caring about you as a whole person.
• Supporting your personal and professional growth.

Location & Schedule:

• This is a remote-flexible position. We’re looking for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area who is able to work in person at our office in South San Francisco at least 3 days per week.

Base Salary Range:

• Culture Biosciences's compensation package includes market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and great benefits. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our expected cash compensation for this role is $230,000 - $340,000. We are hiring for multiple levels and backgrounds so final offers may vary within the range provided based on experience, expertise, and other factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• Medical and Dependent Care FSA (prorated based on start-date)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• 3 weeks of accrued paid time off, 11 paid company holidays and a week-long winter break
• 12 weeks of parental leave at full salary
• Annual L&D stipend for conferences, continuing education, etc.
• WFH stipend of $500 for home office improvements
  • For onsite employees:
    • Commuter benefits
    • Access to on-site child care facility, subject to availability
    • Free onsite breakfast, lunch, snacks, coffee, and gym (varies based on COVID-19 restrictions)

Culture Biosciences provides equal employment opportunities to all em