Research Assistant Tissue Profiling (12 Months)

Relation Therapeutics

ABOUT RELATION Relation is a sector defining TechBio company developing transformational medicines, with technology at our core. Our ambition is to understand human biology in unprecedented ways, discovering therapies to treat some of life’s most devastating diseases. We leverage single-cell multi-omics from patient tissue, functional assays, and machine learning to drive disease understanding, from cause to cure. We are scaling rapidly and building a team of exceptional individuals to push the boundaries of drug discovery. You will work in highly interdisciplinary teams where biology, computation, and engineering come together to solve complex problems that have not been solved before. Our state-of-the-art wet and dry labs in the heart of London are designed to accelerate this integration and translate insight into impact. We are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. Relation is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age. By joining Relation, you will help define how medicines are discovered and deliver meaningful impact for patients. THE OPPORTUNITY Relation is offering an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Senior Research Assistant in Cell Biology to help drive our growing drug discovery portfolio. We are looking for a drug discovery scientist with hands-on experience in experimental design and assay development, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. In this role, you will be at the forefront of scientific discovery and make a meaningful impact in the field of biology, working at the intersection of science and technology within a rapidly growing TechBio company. You will partner closely with colleagues across Discovery and have the opportunity to develop your skills, work independently, and advance your knowledge base in assay development and optimisation. DAY TO DAY, YOU WILL * Design and execute cellular and biochemical assays to support drug discovery, including compound screening and profiling using molecular biology, cell culture, microscopy, and biochemical techniques. * Maintain primary and immortalised mammalian cell lines, taking responsibility for sample tracking and quality control (QC). * Monitor laboratory operations, including managing reagent stock levels, equipment maintenance, and adherence to good laboratory practice. * Carry out data analysis and relevant quality assurance protocols. * Communicate the outcomes of your work to team members and external parties through written and verbal reports. * Proactively identify potential project issues and communicate proposed solutions to the team. * Contribute to the development and implementation of new technologies, workflows, and operational infrastructure. * Stay up to date with relevant scientific literature and incorporate new findings into research project planning and experimental design. * Collaborate closely with cross-functional colleagues across Biology, Machine Learning, Translational Sciences, Toxicology, DMPK, and related disciplines to help solve complex scientific challenges and accelerate programme delivery. PROFESSIONALLY, YOU WILL HAVE * Master’s degree in a Biological Science with 4+ years of relevant experience within a drug discovery function. * Prior experience working within biotech, pharmaceutical, or CRO environments. * Strong practical experience in cell culture techniques, including cell line generation. * Ability to develop cellular, molecular biology, and immunological assays to characterise cell phenotypes, e.g. flow cytometry, RT-qPCR, ELISA, etc. * Hands-on experience with high-content imaging instrumentation and software. * Experience with ‘walk-up’ automated laboratory systems (e.g. liquid handling). * Competence in data handling, curve fitting, and statistical analysis. * Experience with industry-standard record keeping. * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional, matrixed environment. * Highly motivated, scientifically rigorous, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving biotech setting. Bonus experience: * ‘Walk-up’ automated laboratory systems (e.g. liquid handling). * Working with ’omics experiments and datasets. * Generating knock-out/knock-in cell lines using siRNA and CRISPR. * Working in indications relevant to Relation (e.g. osteoporosis) and with a range of modalities in addition to small molecules, such as peptides, ADCs, oligonucleotides, or targeted delivery approaches. PERSONALLY, YOU * Are comfortable working in a matrixed environment, balancing multiple stakeholders and contributing effectively across teams. * Take ownership of your work, proactively seek opportunities to contribute, and enable others to do their best work. * Communicate openly and directly, give and receive feedback constructively, and handle challenging conversations with respect. * Actively seek out diverse perspectives, build strong working relationships, and contribute to shared goals across teams. * Embrace challenges with openness and resilience, set high standards for yourself, and strive to deliver meaningful outcomes. WORKING STYLE & CULTURE AT RELATION At Relation, we operate in a matrixed, interdisciplinary environment, where impact is driven through collaboration across scientific, technical, and operational domains. We collaborate, and you will partner with colleagues across multiple teams and projects, contributing your expertise while aligning to shared company priorities. We work together and win together! The patient is waiting! RECRUITMENT AGENCIES Please note that Relation does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Resumes should not be forwarded to our job aliases or employees. Relation will not be liable for any fees associated with unsolicited CVs. Relation is a committed equal opportunities employer.

Relation Therapeutics

Senior Research Assistant / Research Assistant - Genomics About Relation Relation is a sector defining TechBio company developing transformational medicines, with technology at our core. Our ambition is to understand human biology in unprecedented ways, discovering therapies to treat some of life’s most devastating diseases. We leverage single-cell multi-omics from patient tissue, functional assays, and machine learning to drive disease understanding, from cause to cure. We are scaling rapidly and building a team of exceptional individuals to push the boundaries of drug discovery. You will work in highly interdisciplinary teams where biology, computation, and engineering come together to solve complex problems that have not been solved before. Our state-of-the-art wet and dry labs in the heart of London are designed to accelerate this integration and translate insight into impact. We are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. Relation is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age. By joining Relation, you will help define how medicines are discovered and deliver meaningful impact for patients. The opportunity At Relation, we are building proprietary large-scale datasets to advance the prediction of disease-associated genes using cutting-edge functional genomics and machine learning approaches. We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Senior Research Assistant/ Research Assistant - Genomics to help expand our capabilities to run large scale perturbation studies with single-cell Transcriptomic and Epigenomic readouts. In this role, you will be at the forefront of applying single-cell genomics to large perturbation screens, interfacing with automated platforms for high-throughput discovery. You will contribute to the single-cell library generation workflow that takes perturbation screens into ML-ready sequencing data. In this role you will contribute to the running of both droplet microfluidics and combinatorial-indexing scRNAseq and scATAC-seq approaches, processing libraries to sequencing, and helping move these protocols from the bench onto our automated platforms. Day to day you will * Run single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq workflows end-to-end from cell input through to sequencing-ready libraries. * Process single-cell sequencing libraries through the full preparation to a consistent, QC-passing standard. * Partner closely with automation engineers to port manual single-cell and library prep workflows onto automated systems. * Maintain chain-of-custody for genomics samples, plate maps and metadata capture in our LIMS/ELN so every library is unambiguously traceable. * Interface with the computational and ML teams on library design, demultiplexing logic, expected outputs, and metadata schema. * Author and maintain SOPs and experimental records in our LIMS/ELN system. * Monitor day-to-day lab activities, maintain reagent stock levels, ensure equipment is properly maintained, and adhere strictly to good lab practice standards. Professionally, you will have * A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant Life Sciences discipline with 2+ years of additional experience in Industry or an Academic Genomics Core Facility. * Hands-on expertise with single-cell genomics library generation on droplet microfluidics and/or combinatorial-indexing methods, experience with scATAC-seq or other epigenomic methods is a plus. * Familiarity with NGS operations and library QC, Illumina sequencing essential; experience with Ultima or other platforms a plus. * Strong cross-functional coordination skills, with a track record of working effectively alongside computational/ML colleagues. * A good understanding of the QC, batch-effect, and experimental-design considerations that determine whether large-scale data are usable downstream. * Knowledge of LIMS/ELN systems (e.g. Benchling) and disciplined metadata and sample-tracking practice. * Experience with lab automation and/ or evidence of collaboration experience with automation engineers is desirable but not required. Personally, you: * Are comfortable working in a matrixed environment, balancing multiple stakeholders and contributing effectively across teams. * Take ownership of your work, proactively seek opportunities to contribute, and enable others to do their best work. * Communicate openly and directly, give and receive feedback constructively, and handle challenging conversations with respect. * Actively seek out diverse perspectives, build strong working relationships, and contribute to shared goals across teams. * Embrace challenges with openness and resilience, set high standards for yourself, and strive to deliver meaningful outcomes. Working Style & Culture at Relation At Relation, we operate in a matrixed, interdisciplinary environment, where impact is driven through collaboration across scientific, technical, and operational domains. We collaborate, and you will partner with colleagues across multiple teams and projects, contributing your expertise while aligning to shared company priorities. We work together and win together! The patient is waiting! RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please note that Relation does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Resumes should not be forwarded to our job aliases or employees. Relation will not be liable for any fees associated with unsolicited CVs. Relation is a committed equal opportunities employer.

ElevenLabs

ABOUT ELEVENLABS ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: * ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. * ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. * ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. HOW WE WORK * High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. * Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. * AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. * Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. * Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. WHAT WE OFFER * Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. * Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities. * Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend. * Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose. * Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy. * Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend. ABOUT THE ROLE ElevenLabs moves fast - and our Enterprise Deployment team sits at the sharpest edge of that speed. Responsible for deploying AI agents into production across the world's largest enterprises, the team has grown from 4 to over 50 people in the last twelve months and operates across every major geography. This is a high-trust, hands-on role for someone who thrives in technically complex, fast-moving environments and takes genuine ownership of the details that keep senior leaders and their teams running at their best. You will be the operational backbone for the person who leads Enterprise Deployment - managing calendars, coordinating across time zones and enterprise customer relationships, handling travel, and owning the day-to-day administrative tasks that allow the team to focus on what matters most: deploying world-class AI agents and growing a high-performing global team. In this role, you will: * Manage complex, fast-moving calendars for the leader of Enterprise Deployment and provide scheduling and coordination support across the broader team * Own travel logistics end-to-end: flights, accommodation, ground transport, and detailed itineraries across multiple time zones - including customer onsite visits across the US, Europe, and Asia * Handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion, acting as a trusted partner in both professional and operational contexts * Coordinate seamlessly with internal teams and external stakeholders, including enterprise customers, C-suite partners, and government and regulated industry contacts * Build structure, processes, and systems that scale - including operational documentation, vendor coordination, and team logistics for a 50+ person distributed team * Anticipate needs before they arise: managing follow-ups, flagging conflicts, and keeping stakeholders aligned without being asked REQUIREMENTS * Past experience in executive assistant roles, ideally supporting a senior technical or commercial leader in a fast-moving, high-growth environment * Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, shifting timelines, and multiple stakeholders simultaneously * Exceptional communication skills, with the confidence to interact with a wide range of stakeholders - from Fortune 500 executives and government contacts to vendors and internal teams * High emotional intelligence and discretion - trusted with sensitive commercial and interpersonal information, and able to navigate complex situations with maturity * Fluency with AI tools to help improve the quality and speed of work (e.g. Claude or ChatGPT) LOCATION This role will require you to be based in London, with the ability to travel into the office as required. #LI-Remote