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# People Operations Specialist at Generate Biomedicines

- **Company:** Generate Biomedicines
- **Location:** Somerville, MA
- **Compensation:** $38–$49/hr
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://generatebiomedicines.com/open-positions?gh_jid=4704924006

## Job description

Position summary

The Generate People and Culture team is on a mission to create an environment where Generators of all backgrounds can succeed and are enabled to contribute their best. At Generate, we thrive on innovation, push boundaries, and embrace technology. Our People and Culture team is on the forefront of pioneering HR solutions that shape the future of work. Join us on our inspiring journey as we collectively reimagine People and Culture, creating new standard s in HR excellence, exceptional experiences for our Generators, and teams positioned to deliver breakthrough therapies to patients.

As a People Operations Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting core employee lifecycle processes, maintaining high-quality people data, responding to employee and manager questions, and helping deliver a smooth day-to-day employee experience. This role entails a strong emphasis on accuracy, responsiveness, follow-through, and comfort working in systems and processes. This is an exciting opportunity to make an impact by contributing to our inclusive culture, employee development, and supporting best practices.

## Key responsibilities

- Conduct new employee orientation, including onboarding activities such as new hire preparation, first-day logistics, I-9 and E-Verify coordination, and swag distribution. Serve as the backup facilitator for benefits orientation.
- Perform Workday transactions and data entry, including promotions, terminations, worker moves, new job requisitions, contractor entry, monthly cell phone allowance updates, new hire approvals, and job requisition updates. Review integration notifications for errors.
- Administer leave-of-absence processes, including employee meetings, Workday leave updates, tracking Prudential notifications, managing wage forms, related documentation, and keeping business partners informed.
- Manage recurring People Operations administration such as weekly benefits event status reporting, monthly cell phone reimbursement maintenance, and COBRA subsidy entry for terminations.
- Maintain People Operations content in the Notion knowledge base.
- Monitor and respond to employee inquiries to the People Ops inbox and Slack inquiries.
- Serve as a primary contact for commuter benefit questions, provide new hire support related to commuter programs, approve monthly parking changes, and complete monthly spend category audits.
- Review, reconcile, and support approval of monthly benefits invoices, including auditing headcount and enrollment against billing and coordinating BCBS and Prudential bill review and approval.
- Support operational projects, such as I-9-related work and Workday offboarding documentation updates.
- Administer the recognition platform, including routine platform maintenance, user support, issue escalation, process documentation, and coordination with internal stakeholders and the vendor.
- Identify data issues, process gaps, and opportunities to improve efficiency, while escalating more complex policy or systems issues appropriately.

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

- 2 - 4 years of relevant experience in People Operations, HR Operations, HR coordination, or a similar role; leave administration experience preferred
- Exceptional attention to detail and a strong commitment to accuracy
- Responsive, service-oriented approach with strong follow-through
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Curiosity and willingness to ask questions and learn new systems and processes
- Experience working in HR systems required; Workday experience is helpful but not required
- Comfort embracing technology, particularly in leveraging digital tools and platforms to enhance People and Culture initiatives, improve efficiency, and drive better employee experiences.
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines; a high tolerance for ambiguity and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment.
- Desire to work in a company committed to developing the best therapies for patients

## #LI-HM1

## About Generate Biomedicines

We are a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. We are advancing a new approach to drug creation—one grounded in the ability to design proteins with defined biological intent. By integrating machine learning with large-scale experimentation, this approach aims to reduce the uncertainty, time, and cost associated with developing protein-based medicines.

Founded in 2018, we are advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities. By unifying computational design and clinical development within a single operating model, we translate this approach into clinical-stage programs and are leading a shift from traditional drug discovery toward systematic drug generation.

At Generate:Biomedicines, we collaborate across disciplines in new ways to invent and innovate. We bring diverse perspectives to a shared goal of delivering better medicines to patients in need, faster, guided by our values and leadership behaviors.

Generate:Biomedicines is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Generate:Biomedicines does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Generate:Biomedicines or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Company’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Generate:Biomedicines and the Company will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

Compensation: The hourly pay range provided reflects our current estimate of what we anticipate paying for this non-exempt position. Your actual hourly rate will be based on several factors, including job-related skills, experience, internal equity, relevant education or training, and market dynamics. In addition, you will be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a competitive benefits package.

Per Hour Pay Range $37.98—$49.37 USD

## About Generate Biomedicines

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Generate Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the use of machine learning to design and develop protein-based medicines on demand.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: GBIO)
- **Headquarters**: Somerville, Massachusetts, USA (Boynton Yards and Andover locations)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Gevorg Grigoryan, Daria Hazuda, and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery & Development
- **Target customers**: B2B (pharmaceutical partners) and patients (via clinical programs)
- **Mission statement**: "We don’t discover medicines—we design them," with a belief that speed is a moral obligation to patients.

## Products & Services
- **[Generate Platform™]**: An integrated computational and biohardware innovation stack that uses generative biology to design proteins with defined biological intent. It can generate up to a billion designed variants per cycle with cycle times as fast as ~8 days.
- **[GB-0895 (Anti-TSLP Antibody)]**: A next-generation anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody for severe asthma and COPD, currently in global Phase 3 trials. Designed for ultra-high affinity (106 fM binding, 20x improvement over tezepelumab) and an extended half-life (98 days, longest known among TSLP-targeting therapies), enabling twice-yearly subcutaneous dosing.
- **[GB-5267 (MUC-16 Armored CAR-T)]**: A cell therapy candidate for metastatic ovarian cancer, expected to enter Phase 1 in 1H26.
- **[GB-4362 (Free MMAE Toxin Neutralizer)]**: A first-in-class neutralizer designed for combination with MMAE-based antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), with Phase 1 initiation in bladder cancer expected 1H26.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; IPO in February 2026 raised net proceeds of approximately $370 million.
- **Key Metric**: $221.5 million cash balance at YE 2025, plus ~$370 million from IPO (early 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Strategic collaborations with Amgen, Novartis, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- **Growth Signals**: 5 clinical-stage programs enabled by the platform; initiated global Phase 3 studies for GB-0895; operating out of 140k+ square feet of lab and office space; has studied millions of proteins and generated 42,000 proteins built and tested.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fully integrated computational-biohardware loop**: Machine learning drives generative design, which feeds directly into high-throughput experimentation (including proprietary CryoEM with four of the best microscopes in the world), and results continuously train the AI system — a "living feedback loop" that compounds over time.
- **Multimodal platform**: Can generate candidates across antibodies, CAR-T, and other protein modalities from a single core technology, enabling a pipeline that covers both immunology and oncology.
- **Record speed and scale**: Capable of generating up to a billion designed variants in ~8-day cycles, dramatically reducing the time and cost traditionally associated with drug discovery.
- **First-mover in next-gen anti-TSLP**: First known next-generation anti-TSLP antibody to enter the clinic (GB-0895) with a differentiated half-life profile that could enable twice-yearly dosing, a significant competitive edge in a large market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Clinical execution**: Advancing GB-0895 through global Phase 3 trials in severe asthma (with data in 2H27/1H28) and initiating late-stage development in COPD.
- **Pipeline expansion**: Moving GB-5267 (CAR-T) and GB-4362 (ADC neutralizer) into Phase 1 in 2026, expanding the platform's therapeutic scope.
- **Platform scaling**: Continuing to refine the generative biology engine to unlock new modalities and therapeutic areas, while deepening existing strategic collaborations with major pharma partners.
- **Organizational growth**: Building out the team across computational, wet-lab, clinical, and operational functions to support the growing pipeline.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: The company is explicit that "speed is not just a competitive advantage—it’s a moral obligation." Employees are directly involved in designing drugs rather than discovering them, with a focus on getting treatments to patients faster.
- **Interdisciplinary culture**: The company emphasizes true integration across machine learning, biological engineering, and medicine. As stated on their site, "We are a close-knit group of cross-disciplinary experts... each conversant in one another’s fields, working together to create a new one."
- **Cutting-edge technology**: Access to unique computational and biohardware infrastructure, including "the four best CryoEM microscopes in the world" and a high-throughput experimental loop that powers AI training in real-time.
- **Values-driven leadership**: Explicit leadership behaviors include "value the knowledge we gain more than the knowledge we have," "bring creativity, tenacity, and ingenuity to every challenge," and "hold oneself and others to an obligation to dissent."
- **Hybrid/office policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the company operates large physical facilities in Somerville and Andover, MA, and offers free parking, monthly subway passes, or subsidized commuter rail passes, suggesting a significant on-site expectation.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Competitive pay, employee stock option plan, health/vision/dental insurance, long- and short-term disability, life insurance, EAP, retirement savings, paid parental/adoption/caregiver leave, free weekly lunch, and stocked kitchen.
- **Growth trajectory**: As a newly public company with a cash-rich balance sheet and multiple catalysts over the next 12–24 months, the company offers significant career growth potential for those who want to be part of building a "transcendent company" that redefines an industry.

## Sources
1. [generatebiomedicines.com](https://generatebiomedicines.com/)
2. [generatebiomedicines.com/careers](https://generatebiomedicines.com/careers)
3. [generatebiomedicines.com/about-us](https://generatebiomedicines.com/about-us)
4. [investors.generatebiomedicines.com](https://investors.generatebiomedicines.com/)
5. [Non-Confidential Overview (April 2026)](https://investors.generatebiomedicines.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Generate-Biomedicines-Non-Confidential-Overview_April-2026-1.pdf)

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