# Director, Contract Manufacturing Operations

About Aether Aether engineers enzymes and uses them to make materials that are difficult or impossible to produce any other way. The long-term goal is to manufacture more or less anything, quickly and cheaply, anywhere, by drawing on a few billion years of evolution rather than inventing the chemistry from scratch. Today that work pays for itself through advanced print materials. These are shipping into defense and unmanned systems, with revenue and strong customer feedback. Aether is a Series A company that has raised a little over $60M, with a small team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role Aether manufactures its materials through a network of contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), covering everything from chemical synthesis through compounding and finished material production. This role owns that network day to day. The VP of Manufacturing selects and qualifies CMO partners. From there, you make sure each partner delivers what it committed to: on time, on spec, and at the agreed cost. You’ll be Aether’s representative on site at each partner. You’ll know the production plan at every CMO, keep partners accountable to their contracts, and act quickly when things go

- **Id**: 3488564
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aether-bio-director-contract-manufacturing-operations>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T22:34:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T15:58:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 12
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4208
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Electronics Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Drug Discovery

## Company

- **Id**: 2007442
- **Name**: Aether Bio
- **Domain**: aetherbio.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aetherbio>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Kula

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 12

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T22:34:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.791
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 12
- **Expected fill days**: 10
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: no

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