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Senior Director, Technical Operations & Automation

Ansa Biotechnologies - Emeryville, CA

Posted Jun 4, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

102% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Senior Director, Technical Operations & Automation Emeryville, CA Company Overview Our mission at Ansa Biotechnologies is to revolutionize the way we make DNA. Compared to reading or editing life's code, writing new code from scratch has remained one of the field's most elusive challenges. At Ansa, we are putting nature to work, creating novel enzymatic solutions that will redefine how we build DNA. We believe that the biggest challenges our world faces will be solved using biotechnology and that DNA synthesis is the fuel for that transformation. Our enzyme-based approach (published in Nature Biotechnology) promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics, biomanufacturing, and synthetic biology. Job Description Ansa is seeking a deeply capable, visionary leader to partner with the COO in scaling our manufacturing organization and technical capabilities. This is a critical role for a company moving from early commercial traction into industrial-scale operations. This leader will be responsible for the architecture and execution of a world-class lab automation ecosystem, process engineering, bridging the gap between R&D and high-volume manufacturing. The ideal candidate combines strong scientific and engineering depth with operational rigor, capable of leading a multidisciplinary team. The role spans sustaining manufacturing operations support, process scale-up, automation, QA/QC partnership, transfer of processes from R&D into manufacturing, and capacity expansion planning, including future facility build-out. This is an on-site leadership role based in Emeryville, CA. Candidates must be in the Bay Area or willing to relocate. If you are energized by delighting customers and

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