Operations Generalist

LatchBio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Meal program

Health insurance

Visa sponsorship

Equity incentives

Job summary

LatchBio is seeking an Operations Generalist to join our fast-growing team in San Francisco. You’ll work directly with the COO and Chief of Staff on the company’s most important problems, from finance to hiring, contracts, AI partnerships, and infrastructure.

This isn’t a ticket queue. You’ll own real problems with real stakes, learn how a high-growth biotech software company actually operates, and ship practical solutions every week.

Qualifications

• 0-3 years of experience; startup, consulting, banking, or other high-intensity backgrounds are a plus.
• Strong analytical skills; you’re dangerous in a spreadsheet.
• Excited about AI, biotech, or SaaS.
• Bias toward action and iteration over perfection.
• Genuinely enjoying this kind of work and bringing your personality to the team.

Responsibilities

• Figure out how we hire 60 engineers in 90 days, then help make it happen.
• Dig into our cloud bill and find six figures of savings.
• Build the financial model leadership uses to make hiring and spend decisions.
• Learn to redline a customer contract and keep deals moving.
• Stand up a system from scratch the first time we need it, whether that’s vendor management, compliance tracking, or office expansion.
• Drop into whatever is on fire this week and leave it better than you found it.

Skills

Fast learner

Gets things done

Ambiguity tolerance

Detail oriented

Clear communicator

Ownership mindset

Job description

Seeking a sharp, curious, high-agency Operations Generalist to join LatchBio!

LatchBio

The convergence of laboratory automation, high-throughput assays, and machine learning is moving the medium of biological discovery to silicon. At LatchBio, we are building AI and data infrastructure to accelerate biopharma R&D.

Present snapshot

• We are 100+ engineers and operators in San Francisco solving the data bottleneck in biology.

• Data in biotech has increased 10,000x over the past 10 years.

• AI in biopharma will 20x in 7 years. $200m to $4b, 54% CAGR.

• We build ubiquitous software, storage, pipelines, & machine learning for all of biology.

• 50+ new biotech companies onboarded in the past 12 months. $28M Series A from Lux Capital, Coatue, and General Catalyst.

Operations Generalist

We’re growing fast, and every week brings a new problem nobody has solved yet. One week it’s finance, the next it’s hiring, a customer contract, an AI partnership, or an infrastructure bill that doubled overnight.

You’ll work directly with the COO and Chief of Staff on the company’s most important problems. This isn’t a support role or a ticket queue. You’ll get real problems with real stakes, and you’ll be trusted to figure them out. It’s one of the fastest ways to learn how a high-growth company actually works.

Who you are

• Fast learner. You don’t need to know how to do something yet. Give you a week and you’ll know it better than most.

• Gets things done. You finish what you start, follow up, and close loops without being chased.

• Comfortable with ambiguity. Hand you a messy, half-defined problem and you’ll come back with structure and a plan.

• Detail-oriented, with the bigger picture in mind. You sweat the small stuff because you understand how it connects to everything else.

• Clear communicator. Concise in writing and in person, and equally at home with engineers, scientists, salespeople, and founders.

• Low ego, high ownership. No task is beneath you, and no problem is too big to take a swing at.

What you’ll actually do

Some examples of problems you might own in your first few months:

• Figure out how we hire 60 engineers in 90 days, then help make it happen

• Dig into our cloud bill and find six figures of savings

• Build the financial model leadership uses to make hiring and spend decisions

• Learn to redline a customer contract and keep deals moving

• Stand up a system from scratch the first time we need it, whether that’s vendor management, compliance tracking, or office expansion

• Drop into whatever is on fire this week and leave it better than you found it

What we look for

• 0-3 years of experience; startup, consulting, banking, or other high-intensity backgrounds are a plus

• Strong analytical skills; you’re dangerous in a spreadsheet

• Excited about AI, biotech, or SaaS

• Bias toward action and iteration over perfection

• Genuinely enjoying this kind of work and bringing your personality to the team

What it’s like to work at Latch

• Salary: $150K - $190K

• Unlimited PTO policy

• Every lunch and dinner is paid for ($18K annual value)

• 100% 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. ($15K value)

• Ambitious equity incentives

• 401(k) plan options

• Company-sponsored professional development

• Work visa sponsorship ($15K value)

• Team-wide science reading groups

Who You’ll Work With the Most

This role is fully in-office Monday through Friday. You’ll work closest with:

• The Founders: Alfredo, Kyle, Kenny

• Ops Team: Jordan, Daniel, Saul, Jesse, Andy, Camila, and Greg

Learn more:

About Us · Website · Twitter · Blog