Vaxcyte
Senior Manager, Immunoassay Development
San Carlos, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked.
- Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning.
- Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading people, managing laboratory staff, coordinating daily lab operations, assigning work, reviewing data, setting expectations, and supporting staff development.
- Strong technical experience with ligand-binding immunoassay platforms such as ELISA, MSD, electrochemiluminescence-based assays, bead-based assays, multiplex assays, or other relevant immunoassay technologies.
- Experience supporting method development, platform evaluation, method transfer, qualification, validation readiness, routine testing, lifecycle management, and analytical control strategy execution.
- Experience managing multiple laboratory studies, technical workstreams, testing priorities, outsourced activities, timelines, and deliverables in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
- Experience working in or supporting GMP-regulated analytical environments is desired.
- Hands-on experience with MSD platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate priorities, technical issues, resource needs, risks, and recommendations clearly across functions.
Nice to have
- Experience managing or supervising laboratory scientists in analytical development, vaccine CMC, biologics development, QC, ASAT, or related regulated laboratory environments.
- Experience supporting late-stage development, PPQ readiness, BLA preparation, commercial readiness, or lifecycle management of vaccine or biologics programs.
- Experience with automation, high-throughput immunoassay workflows, multiplex assay design, LIMS, ELN, and digital data analysis tools.
- Experience helping establish, scale, or operationalize analytical capabilities or laboratory teams within a growing organization.
- Work Arrangement (may be adjusted based on business needs, job responsibilities, or changes to company policy):
- PHD. in Biochemistry, Immunology, Analytical Chemistry, Biological Sciences, or a related discipline is preferred with a minimum of 8 years of relevant biopharmaceutical industry experience
- Hands-on experience with multiplex or other multiplex immunoassay platforms is a plus.
- Direct experience with vaccines, conjugated vaccines, polysaccharide-protein conjugates, multivalent vaccines, or other complex biologics is strongly preferred.
Compensation
- $170,000 - $200,000 (SF Bay Area).
- The compensation package will be competitive and includes comprehensive benefits and an equity component.
Benefits
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.<
Company info
- Join our Mission to Protect Humankind!
- WHAT we do is every bit as important as HOW we do it!
- Our work together is guided by four enduring core values:
- We bring creative and intellectual diversity to every facet of the work we do in order to innovate and re-innovate the way vaccines are delivered.
- We embody our collectively audacious goal to courageously make the most complex biologics ever attempted to protect humankind.
- Everyone leads at Vaxcyte with a kindness-first, inclusive approach to collaboration and vigorous debate that advances our business objectives.
- The magnitude of our challenge requires our shared commitment to demonstrating integrity, accountability, equality and clarity across communications and decision making.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- Equal Opportunity
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