Office Manager & Executive Assistant, Hoxton Farms
£40k
This is a fully in-person role
5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Combining cell biology & mathematical modelling to create cultivated fat
Open for applications
Combining cell biology & mathematical modelling to create cultivated fat
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£40k
This is a fully in-person role
5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create scalable animal fat in order to help accelerate the adoption of more sustainable meat alternative products
Role
Who you are
- Experience supporting executives in a dynamic environment (preferably a startup) with general secretarial, travel and administrative needs
- Experience managing an office environment
- Experience organising and coordinating events
- A highly organised, efficient and detail-oriented working style
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate enthusiasm, integrity and discretion
- A desire to foster a positive and collaborative office environment
What the job involves
- As our Office Manager & Executive Assistant, your prior experience supporting executives and fast-paced startup offices will make you a pivotal member of our team
- Based in our Central London HQ, you will be responsible for managing our daily office operations, organising team events and providing executive support to the company co-founders
- Every day, you’ll play a central role in building our company culture and shaping the future of food
- Acting as the first point of contact for Hoxton Farms’ office in Central London and executing daily office operations and procedures
- Organising, running and attending company-wide events
- Liaising with external stakeholders such as company visitors and vendors
- Supporting the onboarding process for new hires and the full employee lifecycle
- Coordinating meetings and preparing agendas
- Scheduling complex travel arrangements and external events
- Managing diaries, inboxes and drafting email responses
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Hoxton Farms' fundamental goal is to produce cost-effective cultivated fat to help replace meat on every plate, in every recipe, in every corner of the world. It does this by bringing together mathematical modelling and machine learning with synthetic and computational biology skills.
Animal fat is the secret to delicious food, and plant oils alone can't replace it: some are bad for the environment - like coconut or palm oil - and most lack the flavour and properties of animal fat. Hoxton Farms solves this issue by growing real animal fat without the animals.
Starting with only a few cells, Hoxton Farms grows purified animal fat in reactors to create an ingredient that is sustainable, cruelty-free and delicious; while tasting, cooking, and looking like real animal fat. This provides the world with a clean source of animal fat, helping power the transition to a more ethical and sustainable future.
The current techniques for culturing animal cells are expensive, but Hoxton Farms' mathematical and computational modelling dramatically reduces the cost of cell culture, meaning that its product is cost-effective at scale. The company has seen significant funding over the years, the latest of which is helping to build its pilot production facility in Shoreditch, as well as further develop its customer partnerships to demonstrate the value of its offering.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$22m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $26m
Company benefits
- 📈 Stock option plan
- 🏛️ Brand new lab and office in Old Street
- 🏡 Pension plan (matching up to 5%)
- 🏖️ 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
- 🚑 Private health insurance + gym discount
- 👐 Supportive and collaborative environment
- 💪 Being part of something amazing
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Max Jamilly
(Co-founder)They took a PhD in Synthetic Biology at Oxford before working as a consultant for Jelly Drops and Legendairy Foods. In June 2020, they used this experience to co-found Hoxton Farms.
Ed Steele
(Co-founder)They have Master's degrees in Maths and Computer Science, specialising in machine learning. They worked as a Machine Learning Engineer for 2 years prior to becoming the Mathematician at QED Analytics.
Diversity & Inclusion at Hoxton Farms
- Equal opportunity employer
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