Anthropic is hiring a Research Operations Lead for its Life Sciences team in San Francisco to build and scale operational systems that support experimental biology research. The role involves managing day‑to‑day lab operations, procurement, inventory, equipment, safety, space, budget, vendors, and facilities, while collaborating with scientists and cross‑functional teams to ensure smooth workflow as the lab grows.
Research Operations Lead, Biology at Anthropic
On-site - San Francisco, CA
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Skills
- 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
- 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
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
Technologies
Inventory Management SystemSample Tracking SystemElectronic Lab Notebook (ELN)Capital Equipment Lifecycle ManagementProcurement Workflow Tools
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