Director, Protein & Cell Sciences

Job description

Position Summary Metaphore Bio, a generative AI drug design company focused on creating a new class of functional antibodies, is seeking a leader with strong scientific and technical skills to enable the delivery of high-quality therapeutic proteins. The Director of Protein & Cell Sciences at Metaphore will lead a focused team responsible for high-throughput production and characterization of antibodies and related proteins, and for cell culture, engineering, and scale-up of antibody/protein production up to the multi-gram scale to support research activities. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality antibodies and protein reagents for multiple simultaneous biologics discovery programs, enabling discovery platform optimization, managing a team of direct and indirect reports, and coordinating both in-house and outsourced protein expression, purification, and characterization activities. As a member of the Biotherapeutics & Enabling Technologies leadership team, this scientific leader will work closely with the head of the unit to establish and maintain a Protein & Cell Sciences function that maximizes the ability the potential for Metaphore’s platform to deliver transformati...