# Research Operations Lead, Biology

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Lab Operations, Procurement, Vendor Management, Budget Management, Inventory Management, Equipment Maintenance, Sop Development, Facilities Management, Eln Systems, Liquid Handling Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Lead day-to-day lab operations for Anthropic's Life Sciences team, owning procurement, inventory, facilities, budget, and vendor relationships to enable AI-accelerated biological research. Requires prior life sciences lab management experience.

## Job Description

## Key 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.

## Minimum Qualifications
- 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.

## Preferred Qualifications
- 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, and decommissioning.
- Experience with regulated shipping and receiving of biological materials, including import/export, permits, and material transfer agreements.
- Experience using AI tools for efficient team and process management (e.g., Claude Cowork).

## Similar roles

- [Senior NetSuite Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f8cf3fa3-aa10-46a8-b7c8-d89c7e6eaf41) - Attentive - Remote - $150k – $210k/yr
- [AI Operations Lead](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6b7c3957-87bb-40e5-8f85-a284d89f8839) - Squint.Ai - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $190k/yr
- [Configuration and Change Control Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a068fe10-acf7-4e2a-9764-634a6e7935fc) - Shield AI - Dallas, TX - $150k – $220k/yr
- [Credit Risk Strategy Manager / Senior Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c46f4746-cf3a-4bd2-bd28-98b4247a422b) - Cardless - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $210k/yr
- [Fraud Strategy Manager / Senior Manager (Transaction Fraud)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/9dd64fbc-e3ca-42cd-840e-725775052682) - Cardless - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $210k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1e7bc7f5-e0a4-4838-bd04-7547d6a7c7d1
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1e7bc7f5-e0a4-4838-bd04-7547d6a7c7d1