Head of UK Operations

About this role

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward.

This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development.

We’re growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. About the Role Adaptyv is expanding from Switzerland to the UK. Following our oversubscribed funding round, we are opening a lab in London in 2026. This will be more than a second production site. We want the London lab to become a hub for the UK protein engineering ecosystem: giving biotech companies and researchers access to high-throughput protein production and characterisation, running work for partners such as Anthropic and Boltz, and building ambitious new capabilities of our own.

We are looking for the person to build and run it. As the founding operator for Adaptyv UK, you will own the UK operation end to end. You will establish the company, get the lab open, build the first team, and then run the business day to day. Lausanne gives you a working blueprint — technology, processes, systems, and a team that has already built this once — but London is yours to make work. This is a general manager role in the literal sense: if something needs to happen for Adaptyv UK to succeed, it is ultimately your responsibility.