VP of People

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 People to join our growing team. You will run human resources, talent acquisition, and all people operations. This role reports to the CEO.

What you'll do:

• Own all the core HR needs & operations at the business: HR policies, compensation, career ladders, payroll, and performance reviews.
• Continue to develop and implement learning & development programs for employees across the company with a particular focus on employees that contribute to our core operations that serve customers.
• Develop analytics & feedback mechanisms to track the status & progress of our HR processes, including DE&I, onboarding, training, satisfaction at work, and internal communications.
• Collaborate with the CEO on regularly updating and maintaining our values, mission, and, critically, processes that reinforce them.
• Provide situational coaching and assistance in response to real-time HR needs for the business.
• Inspire and manage a small HR team, including at least one full-time HR Business Partner, one full-time Senior TA Specialist and a Workplace Experience Manager.
• Develop & implement continued training programs for managers and leaders at Culture.
• Plan and execute company-wide events.

About you:

• You have 10-15 years of experience working in HR and have experience managing reports.
• You’re passionate, or curious, about how biomanufacturing can make an impact on climate change, human health, food systems, and materials.
• You’re an empathetic, self-reflective leader, able to communicate and understand a diverse group of employees.
• You should feel comfortable owning the full set of HR responsibilities for our business.
• You have some experience developing, implementing, or executing learning & development programs and you’re excited to lead L&D programs as a core part of your next role.

In return, we will support you by:

• Placing a high degree of trust in your ideas and execution.
• Bringing you up to speed in the domain of biomanufacturing.
• 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 hybrid 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 - $290,000. 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 availabi