Operations Associate

Are you ready to help build the team that runs Gordian’s cure machine and strengthen the culture that enables it to do extraordinary work?

In this role, you will help Gordian hire exceptional people by moving candidates through a fast, coordinated, high-touch recruiting funnel. You will progressively take ownership of the recruiting funnel through recruiter screens and create intentional events that strengthen morale and connection.

Gordian Biotechnology is a therapeutics company designed as a machine that systematically reveals the right way to cure age-related diseases: a machine for creating time.

To do that, we built Mosaic Screening, which makes causal validation both grounded in human pathophysiology and radically more scalable in living diseased tissue. It lets us measure the causal

But there are still many diseases left to cure, and expanding the machine to tackle them starts with its most important resource: its people and culture. We work as a team , using clear goals, open communication, and direct feedback to make autonomous decisions with the bigger picture in mind. We aim for extraordinary outcomes , continually improving how we work and acting on what will create the most progress, even in unknown territory.

We have deliberately designed an environment to sustain that standard: few standing meetings, hands-on experimentation and pre-mortems, weekly team lunches, and unlimited vacation that people are encouraged to use. You can dive deeper into our culture here .

This way of working has been crucial to Gordian’s success.
In this role, you will help strengthen the cure machine and build the team that takes it even further, enabling Gordian to tackle one disease after another.

Your mission as an Operations Associate at Gordian is to help build the team that runs the cure machine and strengthen the culture that enables it to do extraordinary work. You will keep candidates moving through a fast, well-coordinated hiring process while giving them an exceptional experience from first outreach through offer. As you ramp, you will progressively take tactical ownership of sourcing, outreach, and recruiter screens, and own and expand events that strengthen morale and connection.

You will build the scientific fluency to speak credibly with candidates and improve the systems that reduce hiring friction and make recruiting scalable.

Within your first two weeks , you would have learned Gordian’s recruiting process, candidate-experience standards, science, mission, and core tools, and taken full ownership of interview scheduling and onsite coordination, keeping the process moving smoothly while serving as a warm and responsive point of contact for candidates and interviewers.

By six weeks , you would be sourcing candidates through Linked In Recruiter and Gordian’s LLM-assisted workflows to bring new candidates into our hiring pipelines, independently running smooth onsite interview days, executing a team event and planning an industry event, and reducing friction in recruiting workflows while scoping onboarding automation in Rippling.

By three months, you would be independently conducting calibrated recruiter screens, building hiring pipelines across multiple roles and serving as Gordian’s Rippling expert, with measurable improvements in scheduling friction and time-to-hire. You would also own an increasingly intentional events calendar and the execution of onboarding and offboarding.

You care deeply about talent as a force multiplier and want to become exceptional at identifying and bringing together people who build and scale new ways of discovering medicines.

You’re a natural relationship-builder and effective communicator across a variety of…