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At LatchBio, we are building AI and data infrastructure to accelerate biopharma R&D.\nPresent snapshot\nWe are 80 engineers and operators in San Francisco solving the data bottleneck in biology.\n\nData in biotech has increased 10,000x over the past 10 years.\n\nAI in biopharma will 20x in 7 years. $200m to $4b, 54% CAGR.\n\nWe build ubiquitous software, storage, pipelines, & machine learning for all of biology.\n\n50+ new biotech companies onboarded in the past 12 months. $28M Series A from Lux Capital, Coatue, and General Catalyst.\n\nOperations Manager\nWe are building a company at the intersection of biology and computation. The surface area of problems is expanding fast: finance, compliance, legal, hiring, vendors, product development, AI partnerships, infrastructure cost, real estate, internal systems.\nYour job is to be a force multiplier with the COO and Chief of Staff. You will operate as their true body double: sit in the ambiguity, size up messy problems, impose structure, and move them to resolution without waiting for permission.\nYou are not here to do discrete tasks. You are here to absorb, think, decide, and solve to conclusion with autonomy.\nWho you are:\nQuick study. You can quickly learn how to redline a customer contract, model complex finances, optimize an infrastructure bill, or figure out a plan to hire 60 engineers in 90 days.\n\nThink in terms of bottlenecks. Bug. Solution. Deadline. Nothing gets prioritized unless it’s an active or impending company bottleneck.\n\nExecutive mindset. You can crush tiny details, but you never lose sight of how interconnected each detail is to the unified strategy of every team in the company.\n\nHigh-agency and independent, with integrity. You don’t wait for direction. You propose. You execute. You update. You close loops. You know when to outsource thinking and when we can handle stuff on our own.\n\nYou know your audience. Technically literate and able to communicate ideas, plans, and details with engineers, salespeople, scientists, ops people, designers, product people, etc.\n\nMagician? The best operators can create something spectacular out of some messy context. You should love that and be able to pull off the trick.\n\nWhat you should excel at\n0→1 Operational Architecture. You can build the first version of anything, especially things you don’t really know much about. Something exists but is fragile? You optimize it properly.\n\nFinancial Ownership. You track burn, forecast runway, pressure-test EBIT margins, analyze, and create real-time clarity on tradeoffs and bottlenecks.\n\nRisk and Compliance Navigation. You can read contracts (MPAs, DPAs, SOWs, partnerships), assess risk, redline, and maintain structured oversight of obligations. You evolve policies, controls, and documentation as we grow without slowing velocity.\n\nScaling Without Bureaucracy. You understand how a 30-person company must operate differently than a 200-person company and you can design systems that add clarity and accountability without killing speed.\n\nCross-Functional Leverage. You move fluidly across HR, hiring, finance, compliance, legal, product, and engineering. You connect dots others miss and prevent silos from forming.\n\nAdaptive Execution. When priorities shift (and they will), you recalibrate quickly.\n\nWhat we look for\nExperience operating in a human data, AI, or SaaS startup\n\nTechnical, finance, or intense operational background\n\nExtremely concise communication\n\nBias toward action and iteration over perfection\n\nGenuinely enjoying this kind of work and bringing your personality to the team\n\nWhat it’s like to work at Latch\nBenefits:\nSalary: $160K - $200K\n\nUnlimited PTO policy\n\n$10,000 signing bonus\n\n$3,000 bonus for each new hire you originally sourced\n\nEvery lunch and dinner is paid for ($18K annual value)\n\n100% premium covered on Blue Shield’s platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible) and 50% premium coverage for dependents. 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans. 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You’ll work closest with:\nThe Founders: Alfredo, Kyle, Kenny\n\nOps Team: Jordan, Daniel, Saul, and Rushil\n\nYou can learn more about us at any of these places!\nAbout Us\n\nWebsite\n\nTwitter Page\n\nBlog\n\nOur hiring process consists of a few quick-moving steps, which should take no more than three weeks:\nHiring Process\nRound 0: Apply at the email above\n\nRound 1: Saul, Talent Engineer\n\nRound 2: Daniel, Chief of Staff\n\nRound 3: Jordan, COO\n\nRound 4: onsite paid work trial ($1500) for three days to meet the rest of the team","description_format":"text","description_chars":5001,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Professional development","Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Jordan","iso":"JO","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Bioinformatics","Scientific & Lab Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T07:17:02Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 5","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":112500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.281,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":119,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/latchbio-manager-special-projects","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/latchbio-manager-special-projects.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T22:18:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34841,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":171847},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=171847"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flatchbio-manager-special-projects"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flatchbio-manager-special-projects"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flatchbio-manager-special-projects"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/latchbio-manager-special-projects\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flatchbio-manager-special-projects"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":438059}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"latch.bio","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":438059},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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