Communication Specialist

Ginkgo Introduction 

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. 

Team Introduction 

Although we’re immersed in this incredible technology, we also recognize that synthetic biology is not always an easy thing to communicate — or understand. The Ginkgo Sociotechnical Studio is a multidisciplinary team designing and communicating the future of synthetic biology. We’re passionate about finding new ways to tell the story of synthetic biology, through creative marketing, PR, social media, and our magazine, Grow by Ginkgo. We’re not only vision-setters who spend our time dreaming of possibilities, but also go-getters who make those ideas a reality. 

Job Description

As a Communication Specialist, you’ll work with team members spanning our creative, marketing, and communications functions as well as team members focused on impact and initiatives. Your role will be to write copy and help refine Ginkgo’s brand and messaging. With your creative expertise and enthusiasm about all things science and technology, you’ll have a critical role in our small team of multidisciplinary individuals who thrive at the intersection of the creative and the technical. 

Please submit a small sample of your work, 2-4 pieces, which demonstrate your range as a writer. 

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Please note: This position is a remote role, however travel to our Boston office or other designated locations for offsite meetings or workshops will be required at least once per quarter.

To learn more about Ginkgo, check out some recent press: What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune) Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News) Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal) Ginkgo Raises $70 Million to Tackle Covid-19 Testing (Bloomberg) Ginkgo Bioworks to Build Infrastructure for Rapid Epidemic Response (PR Newswire) How to Test Every American for COVID-19, Every Day (The Atlantic) The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes) The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything (The Economist) Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg) Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters) Ginkgo Bioworks Is Turning Human Cells into On-Demand Factories (WIRED) Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)

We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.  

We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.

Location

Remote/boston, MA