# Research Operations Lead, Biology

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000-$200,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## About the Role

We are hiring a Research Operations Lead to be the operational backbone of our team: the person who makes sure scientists can walk in every morning and get straight to science. You'll take on the operational systems we've started , procurement, inventory, safety, equipment, space , make them better, and scale them as the lab and its needs grow.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own day-to-day operations end to end: ordering and inventory, equipment scheduling and upkeep, consumables, shipping and receiving, and general space organization

- Build on and extend the operational systems a growing group needs: procurement workflows, inventory and sample tracking, equipment maintenance and calibration schedules, onboarding and training, SOPs

- Manage facilities and space: coordinate buildouts, moves, and equipment installs; act as the primary interface to building management, contractors, and Anthropic's central Workplace and IT teams

- Own the operating budget: track spend against plan, run the capital equipment purchasing process, and partner with Finance on forecasting and reporting

- Manage vendor and supplier relationships: including contract research organizations: source and qualify vendors, negotiate quotes and service contracts, schedule preventive maintenance and field-service visits, and hold suppliers to their commitments

## Minimum Qualifications

- Have managed the day-to-day operations of a life sciences lab , equipment, inventory, ordering, safety, space, and scheduling

- Have hands-on procurement and vendor management experience: sourcing suppliers, negotiating quotes and service contracts, and coordinating field-service and maintenance technicians

- Have tracked and managed an operating budget: purchase orders, invoices, spend-vs-plan, and capital requests

## Preferred Qualifications

- Are the person everyone in your group already comes to when something is broken, missing, late, or unclear , and you like being that person

- Enjoy engaging with scientists on the science itself , you want to understand what's happening at the bench well enough to anticipate needs

- Are results-oriented and practical and pick up slack even when it goes outside your job description

- Enjoy a role that stretches from the hands-on to the strategic, and are comfortable when priorities shift quickly and feedback is direct

- Lab operations or lab management experience in a biotech, pharma, diagnostics, or life-sciences startup environment, including exposure to how those organizations build new functions and processes end to end

- A degree in the life sciences and prior research experience at the bench

- People-management experience: hiring, onboarding, and supervising operations or facilities staff

- Experience supporting a team through significant growth in headcount, footprint, or capability, including utilities, permitting, and equipment

- Familiarity with liquid-handling platforms, including their service, calibration, and consumable needs

- Experience selecting and administering inventory management, sample tracking, equipment scheduling, or ELN systems

- Capital equipment lifecycle management experience , evaluation, purchase, qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), service contracts, and decommissioning

- Experience with regulated shipping and receiving of biological materials, including import/export, permits, and material transfer agreements

- Experience using AI tools for efficient team and process management (e.g., Claude Cowork)

## Logistics

- Annual Salary: $150,000-$200,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- vendor management
- budget tracking
- lab operations
- equipment maintenance

### Nice to have
- lab management
- people management
- inventory management
- sample tracking
- ELN systems
- capital equipment lifecycle management
- regulated shipping and receiving

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