# Program Director, Biobanking

The Colossal Foundation is looking for an experienced program leader who will build and run the operational engine behind BioVault, Colossal's endangered species biobanking program. The role's first and largest commitment is Colossal's partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: a multi-year effort to collect, process, and cryopreserve living cell lines, reproductive tissue, and genomic material from endangered and threatened species across the United States. The role also directs Colossal's other biobanking efforts, including collaborations with zoological institutions, universities, and international conservation partners, and the Colossal Foundation's genetic rescue programs. This role sets BioVault's annual species targets, builds the partner network of refuges, zoos, state agencies, universities, Tribal nations, and international institutions that supplies samples, and holds the schedule and reporting commitments under the USFWS MOU and Colossal's other biobanking agreements. This role works closely with Colossal Foundation staff, including the Partnerships Manager, and with Colossal's Animal Operations, Embryology, and Assisted Reproduction teams and external partner

- **Id**: 4314122
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/colossal-biosciences-program-director-biobanking>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dallas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T14:09:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:37:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7416
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Parental leave, Relocation assistance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Environmental Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 673658
- **Name**: Colossal Biosciences
- **Domain**: colossal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/colossal-4>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T14:37:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T17:02:13Z

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