Analysis Review Team Leader – NMR & UPLC-MS interpretation

About Chemify

Chemify is creating a future where important molecules, drugs and currently unimaginable new materials are instantly accessible; thereby radically increasing the speed of innovation, quality of life, and reach of humanity.

The company is building the infrastructure to digitize chemistry for the design, discovery and synthesis of new molecules with the desired function and properties instantly and on-demand. Chemify has built a platform that combines purpose-built programming languages, robotics, AI, and the world’s largest and continuously growing database of chemical programs to accelerate chemical discovery to new, transformative heights.

Chemify is supported by some of the best investors from Silicon Valley and across the world, including

Triatomic Capital, Blue Yard Ventures, DCVC, Founders Fund, and others.

What we offer

This is your chance to step into a first formal leadership role, with real influence over how a growing analysis review team operates — from workload and rota planning to coaching people through their toughest cases.

You'll stay close to the technical side too, as the person the team turns to for its hardest structure elucidation problems. It comes with a competitive base salary, an uplift for unsocial hours, and enhanced annual leave ontop of the standard entitlement.

Job purpose

As our Analysis Review Team Leader, you'll be accountable for the performance, quality and development of ashift-based team interpreting NMR and UPLC-MS data from our automated chemistry platform. You'll set the standard for consistent, high-quality interpretation, act as the final point of escalation for the most complex structure elucidation and signal assignment problems, and make sure the team has the coaching, workload planning and rota coverage it needs to deliver round the clock.

Who we are looking for

We're looking for someone who leads by example: an experienced analytical scientist with either prior team leading or supervisory experience, or enough industry depth to be ready to take that step. You're a confident decision-maker under pressure, comfortable giving feedback and coaching others through difficult cases, andjust as at home managing a rota as solving a tricky structure at the bench. You build good working relationships across teams — with our POM team on complex outcomes, and OPS when troubleshooting — and know how tokeep a team motivated through demanding, repetitive shift work.

Key responsibilities

• Workload and rota planning:
  Plan and manage the shift rota to ensure consistent coverage across evenings and weekends, and allocate day-to-day workload across the team.
• Performance and development:
  Run regular one-to-ones and performance reviews, identify training needs, and support each team member's development and progression.
• Onboarding and recruitment:
  Onboard new starters and contribute to recruitment as the team grows.
• Complex interpretation:
  Act as the team's escalation point for ambiguous or complex spectra, applying structure elucidation and NMR signal assignment expertise to resolve difficult cases.
• Quality and compliance:
  Own SOPs and quality procedures for the team's data review, and lead timely investigation of flagged discrepancies or audit findings.
• Continuous improvement:
  Identify and implement improvements to interpretation guidelines and workflows, and contribute to building out the automation of our analytical data processing and interpretation work, working closely with our software team.
• Team representation and culture:
  Chair team meetings, represent the team in cross-functional discussions with the POM and OPS teams, and report on team performance and quality metrics to senior scientists and stakeholders.

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