Description

The role of the Chief of Staff has been given various definitions in the last several years, but at Beeflow, it can be broken down very simply: creatively solve any problem that is thrown your way with a bias toward efficiency and an executive mindset. In return, you will learn firsthand how a rapidly growing company is built, run, and scaled. The Chief of Staff role is constantly changing based on the needs of the company. You will have your hand in almost every part of the business at some point, but most importantly, you will be the right-hand person, a confidant and force multiplier of the CEO, helping to both amplify their efforts and function as a thought partner on a diverse set of challenges. As the CoS, you will regularly need to switch between the strategic and the tactical, and make connections between the two.

This role is based in Buenos Aires but implies a heavy travelling schedule to visit operations in Peru and the US and to meet investors, wherever they might be.

What you'll do

Things at Beeflow are constantly changing, so the role you start in will very likely feel different from the role you end in. Here are some areas you’ll be heavily involved in:

• Fundraising: assist the CEO through fundraising processes. This includes: building a database of best VCs to partner with, tracking conversations and keeping them updated on our management system, building fundraising materials (decks, data room, etc) and representing the CEO in internal and external conversations.
• Investors relations: assist the CEO through the management of Beeflow’s board, creating materials for board meetings, attending meetings with board members, building update reports to investors and managing relationships with them on behalf of the CEO.
• Strategic planning: working alongside the CEO and the Leadership team throughout our planning cycles every quarter. Helping guarantee timelines are followed and the organization operates on track with crop & financial calendars as well as quarterly based OKRs.
• Goal setting / organization: help the CEO manage annual and quarterly OKRs with each department. Run planning meetings with the Leadership team and track progress of goals and learnings. Track key strategic actions, drive them to closure; manage the process of tracking and communicating performance against objectives.
• Coordinating operating cadence of Leadership Team: attend weekly Leadership team L10 meetings, monthly OKRs deep dive meetings and quarterly in-person retreats. Help the CEO manage meetings agendas with the aim to build the best high performance Leadership team.
• Recommending, leading, and/or implementing process improvement initiatives: track closely every department quarter OKRs, seek for cross-pollination opportunities between teams and opportunities to improve every team’s performance.
• Internal/External communications: help the CEO manage his agenda and prioritize work. Lead initiatives that help improve internal communication between departments and assist the CEO with internal communications (organize All-Hands agenda and build materials, track action items from CEO meetings, etc). Occasionally representing Beeflow externally, whether that means visiting customers or speaking with the media. Serve as the key interface to the CEO’s office for external groups (i.e. customers and partners) as well as internal team members.
• Leading special projects: manage strategic initiatives that include launching into new markets, developing new products, technologies and business models, and analyzing joint ventures and M&A opportunities. Managing and coordinating highly cross functional initiatives.
• Empower the CEO: prepare the CEO for high consequence external and internal meetings. Be a strategic advisor and confidant of the CEO, helping to both amplify their efforts throughout the company and function as a thought partner on a diverse set of challenges. You will have your hand in almost every part of the business. Facilitate and manage the process of identifying, prioritizing, chartering, communicating, and managing key projects pertaining to our CEO. You will support him in his day to day activities (presentations to customers, executives and other external audiences, preparation for critical meetings and business reviews). The CoS will meet the CEO multiple times per week to coordinate his agenda and distribute responsibilities.

About Beeflow

Beeflow is a biotech startup company that leverages scientific knowledge and technology to improve the impact of ecosystem services in agriculture. Beeflow creates and manages pollination programs for farmers with the goal of consistently increasing crop yields. The company combines scientific knowledge of crop pollination, bee biology & behavior and chemical ecology with proprietary technologies including molecules that help train bees to pollinate specific crops and a plant-based bee diet that enhances bees’ immune system. This novel approach to pollination management allows growers to produce more with less.

Based in California and with operations across the US West Coast, Mexico, Peru and Argentina, Beeflow closed an $8.3M Series A in May 2021 with Ospraie Ag Sciences, Future Ventures, Vectr Ventures, Jeff Wilke (former CEO of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon), SOSV and others.  Beeflow’s team of experts includes biologists, ecologists, entomologists, agronomists, and entrepreneurs.  

For more information about Beeflow, please visit www.beeflow.com

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in areas such as business administration, economics, finance, industrial engineering or logistics. Master's degree is a plus.
• Consulting experience, with a focus on operations management.
• Experience working in a startup is highly desirable.
• Experience working with VCs and investement is a plus.
• Experience in organizing and directing multiple teams and departments
• Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both in english and spanish.
• Versatile abilities and extreme dedication to efficient productivity
• Experience in data analysis and budget management
• Proven success in a project coordination role
• Strong project-reporting skills, with focus on interdepartmental communications
• Readiness to travel internationally around 50% of your time.

Who you are

• Comfortable with ambiguity: Beeflow is always evolving, which means your role is evolving too. You will need to be able to thrive in open-ended situations, which makes this role both challenging and rewarding.
• Flexible and adaptable learner: You will likely have your hand in a little bit of everything, which means you’ll regularly come across situations you’ve never encountered before. You’ll need the attitude and aptitude of a learner.
• Agile communicator: This role requires clear and broad communication. Sometimes you will be required to represent the perspective of the CEO, both internally and externally. Simultaneously, you will need to find your own voice with the CEO, the Leadership Team and the company as a whole.
• Can lead without authority: Much of your time will be spent with the Leadership Team, so you’ll need to work effectively with very senior / experienced people while also building strong working relationships at all levels of the company.
• Curious and questioning: We are in a constant state of improving and optimizing. You will be asked to proactively question our status quo and push for improvements in our processes across the business.
• Honesty: You say what you mean and mean what you say. Your opinion matters, even if that opinion is difficult to deliver.
• Highly organized: We’re moving fast, and things can feel chaotic sometimes. It’s paramount that you can take the pace in stride and stay organized, both for you and the CEO.
• Expert Project Manager: A core piece of the role will require you to track and synthesize multiple work streams across various teams in a way that amplifies the CEO’s impact. Can see the forest and the trees: The CoS role is both strategic and tactical, and you will need to deftly switch between these two mindsets often.
• Mission Driven: The CoS role entails living and breathing our mission and vision to create a food system more in harmony with nature. Company-mission alignment is a core part of your values.
• Biased toward action: Beeflow is a high-growth company so the CoS will strive to get things done with a fast space. The role is proficient with time management and work productivity.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package. In addition to base salary, we offer stock options as we believe that every employee should have a stake in the company’s growth.

• Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance for the employee and their dependents (OSDE 310).
• A generous holiday schedule: 15 business days + the week off between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Family Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for the nonpregnant parent + Soft Landing options to return to work after the leave both for pregnant and nonpregnant person
• hybrid work schedule that combines in-person and remote models, creating a  flexible environment, where you can alternate time in the office with remote work.
• In-company English lessons.
• Learning & Development budget + 3 days off per year to attend conferences, industry events, courses, etc.

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Stämm es una startup de biotecnología dedicada a hacer que la biomanufactura sea fácil, escalable y repetible. Utilizando la microfluídica y la impresión 3D, desarrollamos la primera metodología continua para la producción industrial de productos biológicos y terapias celulares. Inspirados en la naturaleza, Stämm utiliza el flujo laminar, unidireccional y continuo para reducir el tamaño de toda una instalación biotecnológica a una unidad de escritorio “plug & play”.

Nuestro objetivo es descentralizar los bioprocesos y democratizar el acceso a los productos biotecnológicos, permitiendo que nuestros partners se enfoquen en descubrimientos disruptivos que generen un impacto en la humanidad.

Para nuestro equipo de Agile estamos en búsqueda de un Agile Specialist. Serás responsable de la gestión ágil de proyectos, liderando la implementación de prácticas ágiles, guiando al equipo en la mejora continua y resolviendo impedimentos.

Responsabilidades Generales:

• Realizar tareas específicas a esa área de conocimiento.
• Cumplir con los objetivos y tareas acordadas.
• Comunicar, reportar y administrar en las diferentes plataformas de la organización.
• Respetar los acuerdos realizados y vigentes en las células (equipos) en los que es miembro.
• Hacer seguimiento de sus tareas y las relacionadas a las mismas.
• Tener y demostrar compromiso con las tareas, los objetivos y las personas.

Responsabilidades Específicas:

• Relevar y diagnosticar problemáticas de la organización inherentes al relacionamiento de personas.
• Contribuir a la estrategia de adopción de prácticas ágiles en toda la organización.
• Promover la mentalidad ágil y el pensamiento sistémico entre los equipos y líderes.
• Evaluar y mejorar continuamente la efectividad de los procesos ágiles a nivel global.
• Diseñar e implementar estrategias ágiles a nivel organizacional.
• Gestionar múltiples equipos ágiles y coordinar la entrega de proyectos complejos.
• Evaluar y optimizar los procesos ágiles para maximizar la eficiencia y calidad.

Requisitos:

• Estudiante avanzado o graduado universitario. (Deseable)
• Certificaciones en metodologías ágiles.
• Al menos 4 años de experiencia comprobable en la gestión de proyectos ágiles o en marcos organizacionales autogestivos.
• Capacidad para apoyar y contribuir a cambios culturales y gestionar la resistencia al cambio.
• Conocimiento profundo de marcos de trabajo ágiles y su aplicación en entornos complejos.
• Amplia experiencia en liderazgo ágil y gestión de cambio organizacional.
• Capacidad para influir y motivar a equipos multidisciplinarios.
• Nivel de Inglés Avanzado. (Deseable)

Más info:

Esta posición es 100% presencial en Buenos Aires, Argentina (Retiro).

Beneficios:

• Flexibilidad horaria
• Prepaga SMG20 (Plan Individual + Hijos)
• Reintegro de gastos por guardería
• Bigbox de regalo en tu día de cumpleaños
• Frutas en las oficinas
• Coffee Break
• Posibilidad de crecimiento y desarrollo profesional

Si querés sumarte a una startup innovadora, con excelente clima organizacional y con los mejores talentos de diversos campos relacionados con la Ciencia y la Tecnología, ¡Esta es tu oportunidad!

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Job Description:

We are seeking a passionate and highly experienced Senior Inorganic Chemist to join our research and development team. This professional will play a crucial role in the research, development, and implementation of advanced innovations for the extraction, separation, and purification of critical metals from the mining industry and electronic waste.

Responsibilities:

• Research and Development: Lead research projects focused on the extraction and purification of critical metals and rare earth elements.
• Experimentation: Design and conduct experiments to develop and optimize processes for metal separation and purification.
• Metal Analysis: Perform detailed analyses of samples to determine the composition and purity of metals.
• Protocol Development: Create and improve protocols for handling and processing metals from various sources.
• Innovation: Identify opportunities to innovate existing processes by applying new technologies and methodologies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other R&D teams, as well as with external partners and suppliers.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate and detailed records of all experiments, results, and developments.

Requirements:

• Academic Background: Ph.D. or Master's degree in Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 4 years of experience in research and development in the field of metals, with an emphasis on critical metals and rare earth elements.
• Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of techniques for the extraction, separation, and purification of metals. Experience with advanced analytical equipment and techniques.
• Competencies: Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with an innovative and results-oriented approach.
• Languages: Intermediate level of English, both written and spoken.
• Possibilities of international travels

If you are a Senior Chemist with a strong motivation for innovation and sustainability in the field of critical metals, we want to meet you! Apply via https://forms.gle/263dX5nWm7kRkmTD8 and join us in creating advanced solutions for a more sustainable future.

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Do you want to work for an international startup and be part of a fun scientific team?

Michroma is looking for a Lab Technician to join the team in Rosario, Argentina. We are looking for someone for the Lab Support team who wants to collaborate with Product Development.

About the team

Michroma is a biotech/ food tech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.

Required experience

• 1+ years of laboratory experience.
• Familiarity with using a rotary evaporator.
• Knowledge in HPLC.
• Ability in the preparation of materials for DSP.

Job responsibilities

• Preparing and injecting samples in HPLC.
• Purifying samples (using thin layer and column chromatography).
• Concentrating samples using a rotary evaporator.
• Preparing material for DSP.
• Preparing solutions, and laboratory material for the development of R&D activities.
• Assisting in experiments in the R&D areas.
• Cleaning and calibrating equipment.
• Inventorying management.
• Cleaning glass/plastic material.

Education & Skills

• Advanced student or Bachelor's degree in Chemistry.
• Management of good laboratory practices.
• Problem-solving: the ability to efficiently solve technical challenges.
• Initiative and Proactiveness: enhancing laboratory work, optimizing processes, and contributing to project advancement.
• Adaptability: quickly adapting to new situations, taking on different roles, and finding creative solutions to overcome challenges.

What Michroma can Offer for Full-Time Positions

• Paid day off on a day of your choosing during the week of your birthday.
• Complimentary healthy food & coffee at the office.
• Gympass membership
• English class sponsorship.
• Tuition reimbursement for professional development courses (approval required).
• Schedule flexibility (approval required).
• Swiss Medical coverage
• Salary adjusted monthly based on the IPC
• Two weeks of paid time off and all national holidays.

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