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title: 'Operations Generalist at LatchBio'
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# Operations Generalist at LatchBio

- **Company:** LatchBio
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latchbio/5581946f-cc7e-42e1-8dc2-8ef670b116b5

## 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredoandere/), [Kyle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegiffin/), [Kenny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennyworkman/)
- Ops Team: [Jordan](http://linkedin.com/in/jordanjramsay), [Daniel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gnecco-88a091181/), [Saul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saulhjr/), [Jesse](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcx714/), [Andy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-buchanan-711755146/), [Camila](https://www.linkedin.com/in/camila-lopez-254097213/), and [Greg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-taylor-phr-550598173/)

Learn more: [About Us](https://latch.bio/about) · [Website](https://latch.bio/) · [Twitter](https://twitter.com/LatchBio) · [Blog](https://latchbio.substack.com/) Hiring process (no more than three weeks)

- Round 0: Apply via the application
- Round 1: Andy, Founding Recruiter
- Round 2: Daniel, Chief of Staff
- Round 3: Jordan, COO
- Round 4: Paid onsite work trial ($1,500) for three days to meet the rest of the team

## About LatchBio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LatchBio builds and deploys frontier AI agents for biological data analysis, serving over 300 biopharma and R&D labs worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $33.2M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Alfredo Andere (CEO) and Kenny Workman (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Biotechnology Research / AI for biology
- Target customers: B2B – biopharma companies, academic R&D labs, and solution providers (kits, assays, instrument vendors)
- Mission: Deploy AI agents into real scientific work to accelerate data analysis and drug discovery

## Products & Services
- **Latch Platform**: A unified, serverless bioinformatics platform that lets scientists run, track, and debug pipelines via an SDK-generated no-code interface. Supports FastQ, CSV, H5AD, TIFF, and other formats. Agents can analyze messy real-world data.
- **Latch SDK**: Python toolchain to define serverless workflows and dynamically generate no-code UIs, removing cloud-infrastructure overhead.
- **agent.bio**: Public, interactive sandbox where frontier AI agents (e.g., Claude 4.8 Opus) analyze biological data. Supports 40+ solution providers.
- **benchmarks.bio**: Open, reproducible benchmarks measuring AI agent performance on spatial, single-cell, epigenomics, and preclinical pharmacology data. Includes papers like scBench-Long, TxBench-PP, etc.
- **White-labeled data analysis**: Solution providers can offer a branded, simpler analysis experience for their kits and services.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$1.0M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding $33.2M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue, Lux Capital, Fifty Years, Haystack, Gelt, Backend Capital; individual investors include George Church, Jeff Dean, Hemant Taneja, Laura Deming, Alec Nielsen
- **Growth Signals**: 140% YoY headcount growth (from ~11 to 26 employees); 300+ biopharma and academic teams served; 40+ solution providers onboarded; recent publication of multiple benchmark papers (2025–2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI agents for biology**: Combines frontier LLMs with rigorous, verifiable benchmarks tailored to biological data (spatial, single-cell, epigenomics, pharmacology).
- **Open benchmarks & reproducibility**: All benchmarks (e.g., scBench-Long) are published openly, building trust and attracting top talent.
- **White-labeling for solution providers**: Allows kit and instrument vendors to offer AI-powered data analysis under their own brand, creating a network effect.
- **Tight integration with real lab workflows**: Supports common file formats and interfaces with existing pipelines, reducing friction for scientists.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue research and deployment of AI agents for biology, with emphasis on long-horizon tasks and messy real-world data.
- Expand the agent.bio sandbox to more solution providers and biopharma customers.
- Publish additional benchmarks (spatial, preclinical) to establish Latch as the standard evaluator of AI in biology.
- Grow engineering and bioinformatics teams to accelerate platform development.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: Small, high-autonomy team where engineers own features end-to-end and see their code impact thousands of scientists the same day. Reading groups on category theory, immunology, and more.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Francisco; office parking subsidized. Likely in-office with flexibility.
- **Notable perks**: Unlimited PTO, 100%-subsidized platinum health plan (Cigna) + 75% for dependents, dental/vision, 401(k), ambitious equity, 12+ meals weekly, annual tech stipend, signing bonus, O-1 visa sponsorship, professional development.
- **Team size**: ~26 employees, with 65% in technical roles (engineering, bioinformatics, research). Flat structure with direct access to founders.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and expanding customer base offer career acceleration opportunities.

## Sources
1. [latch.bio](https://latch.bio/)
2. [latch.bio/about](https://latch.bio/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/latchbio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/latchbio)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/latch-bio](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/latch-bio)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/latchbio](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latchbio)

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