Senior Global Research Partnerships Manager

About Us

Basecamp Research is dedicated to solving major challenges in the life sciences by exploring Beyond Known Biology. Our teams build frontier AI models using Base Data, the world's largest ethically-sourced and globally representative biological dataset. Our Global Research Team collects and curates our own biological data through partnerships with more than 152 organisations in 28 countries, giving its AI access to genetic diversity that doesn't exist for models trained on public database sources.

This enables Basecamp Research to design novel protein sequences and biological systems that can accelerate therapeutic research and development.

In October 2024 we closed Series B and in January 2026 finalised pre-Series C investment from NVIDIA. With hubs both in London, UK as well as Boston, Massachusetts, USA and partners with biopharma companies and academic institutions worldwide, our work has been recognised with honours including Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Biotech and the FT-backed Sifted AI100 list of Europe's leading AI startups.

At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a diverse, exciting, fun, and flexible place to work. Our team of biologists, engineers, ML scientists, field explorers, and operations specialists are united by a sense of adventure and the belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet's greatest challenges - we just need to go out and discover them!

If you feel passionate about the power of biology, data, and AI to build a better world, we'd love to hear from you.

Our mission is to create the world's largest and fastest-growing database of protein sequences, underpinning AI-driven models to build a "digital twin" of Earth's biodiversity. To aid this goal, the Global Research Team is coordinating the collection of an unprecedented number of environmental samples through the Trillion Gene Atlas, in collaboration with our global network of partners.

This role sits within the Global Research Team and is essential to that mission - primarily by deepening and scaling our existing partnerships and collaborations, driving forward those already in motion, and, over time, using your network to help identify and secure new long-term partnerships with global institutions.

Basecamp Research is therefore seeking a Senior Global Research Partnerships Manager to lead and scale our international collaborations & expedition partnerships within our Global Research Team. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can hit the ground running - bringing an existing network in biodiversity, conservation, or science diplomacy, and the confidence to take ownership of complex, multi-stakeholder relationships from day one.

You will lead the development and the scaling of our international collaborations with primarily research institutes, as well as governments, NGOs, and conservation agencies. We are looking for someone proactive who can quickly identify what needs to be done and drive it forward, looping the right people in at the right time. You'll ensure our work is ethically sourced, legally compliant, and creates transparent value-sharing mechanisms with all partners.

• Take ownership of implementing and driving forward collaborations that are live or about to kick off, ensuring they deliver on their scientific and strategic potential.
• Identify opportunities to deepen, expand, or level up existing partnerships - more sites, more sampling, broader institutional buy-in, renewed or upgraded agreements.
• Proactively spot gaps, risks, and opportunities within current collaborations and act on them without needing detailed direction.
• Bring an existing professional network in biodiversity, conservation, government relations, or science diplomacy that can be leveraged to strengthen current partnerships and, in time, open doors to new ones.

• Lead the development, establishment, and management of international biodiversity collaborations, keeping close communication with the legal and policy team to ensure robust legal frameworks, regulatory compliance, and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms.
• Support capacity-building programs and knowledge exchange with biodiversity partners to ensure fair benefit-sharing and mutual value creation, including ensuring transparent access to insights and benefits derived from their contributions, running R&D initiatives, and co-writing manuscripts with international collaborators.

• Work with international research groups, NGOs, academia, and private entities to plan and execute environmental sampling that provides extracted DNA for the BCR database and insights for biodiversity partners.
• Deliver environmental sampling and DNA extraction training to biodiversity partners around the globe.
• Coordinate DNA biobanking in London to facilitate…