PopVax is an Indian full-stack biotech building first-in-class and best-in-class vaccines and cancer immunotherapies using machine learning-driven design and relentless empiricism. We design, develop, and manufacture our own RNA medicines end-to-end because we believe great pharmaceutical science can only flourish in tight feedback loops that iterate rapidly. PopVax’s experimental work and clinical dose production is based at the RNA Foundry, our integrated R&D and GMP-capable clinical dose production facility in Hyderabad.
PopVax's north star is our goal of developing novel vaccines and therapeutics over the next decade with the cumulative ability to save 1 million lives each year – the Million Lives Mission. To that end, we are developing first-in-class vaccines against Hepatitis C Virus, Strep A, and adult pulmonary TB, broadly-protective best-in-class vaccines against COVID-19, influenza, and HPV, and precision immunotherapies against hard-to-treat solid tumours such as liver cancer and pancreatic cancer.
Our work is funded by Vitalik Buterin’s Balvi Fund, the Gates Foundation, the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and Renaissance Philanthropy. Our first vaccine program will begin a Phase I clinical trial in the US in mid-2026 conducted & sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We intend to put 6 novel vaccines and immunotherapies into Phase I clinical trials over the next 3 years.
No matter the job title, each person’s role at PopVax is ultimately focused on helping take safe & effective new medicines that represent a step-change improvement on the current standard-of-care to the people who need them as fast as possible. If you want to work where the ambition is high, the learning curve is steep, and the work matters to billions, you’ll feel at home here.
If you’re excited by the idea of advancing scientific, clinical, and regulatory frontiers of vaccines and immunotherapies, spending each day developing medicines with the potential to save millions of lives, and building a generational global pharmaceutical company in India along the way – join us!
We are looking for an Administrator to join our team in Hyderabad. The role of the Administrator at PopVax comes with added responsibilities, ones that aren’t necessarily always built into the usual job description of the title. We have a very fast-paced work environment, which demands the ability to keep up with the ever-changing and unpredictable schedules of everyone involved in the progress of research. Essentially, we are looking for someone who is not only highly organised, but also efficient at communication and thorough in administrative task execution.
The job role requires the administrator to be on top of and coordinate the following administrative tasks:
Catering for the company, including daily lunch services
Setting up interviews for all our rapidly growing departments
Booking tickets and hotel reservations on a frequent basis
Keeping stock of all administrative and IT requirements
Managing the petty cash requests of all departments
Organising events for the company from time to time
Candidates should also be prepared to:
Ably communicate with the Facilities Executive about the requirements of the office and lab spaces.
Coordinate with vendors for any IT requirements that may come up every so often.
Coordinate with the site head to stay up-to-date on the requirements of the production team
Oversee the administrative components of any interdepartmental events or meetings
Communicate and coordinate with the Accounting Department and manage invoices
Coordinate other specific requirements that may arise from different departments,
Qualifications:
7–10 years experience with an administrative role in the pharmaceutical industry or similar
Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to fluently read, write, and speak in English and Hindi. Proficiency in Telugu is a plus.
We offer very competitive compensation, comprehensive health insurance with the option to cover immediate family (including pre-existing conditions), and, most importantly, a collaborative work environment focused on solving the cutting-edge multidisciplinary challenges of our novel mRNA platform.