Director of Ornamental Bio-Innovation

Job description

Description About Ball Helix: Ball Helix is the high-tech heart of ornamental horticulture at Ball Horticultural Co. We operate as a multi-disciplinary scientific powerhouse, with specialized divisions in Tissue Culture, Plant Pathology, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, and Bioengineering. Leveraging our deep technical expertise we partner and support both traditional plant breeding and synthetic biology applications to supercharge our global breeding teams to create unprecedented plant varieties. The Role: We are seeking a high-energy, visionary Director of Ornamental Bio-Innovation to lead our Ball Helix discovery team. You will lead the departments of Bioengineering , Cell Biology, and Bioinformatics , ensuring that our Ball Helix discovery team consistently and rapidly produces innovative, market-ready traits for our global plant breeders. We are seeking a "creative pragmatist" —a visionary who can see the flower that doesn’t yet exist and build the roadmap to create it. You possess the creative vision to inspire scientists to redefine biological possibilities, transforming "what if" into "we can." You balance this imagination with a laser focus on speed to market, commercial goal...