Senior Director, Bioinformatics

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and grow several teams of bioinformaticians across a wide range of experience levels, areas of expertise, and scopes of responsibility
• Be a true thought partner to the experimental, engineering, and product teams working alongside them to guide next steps, prioritize tradeoffs, and accelerate learning
• Work with the commercial and software teams to translate bioinformatics capabilities into scalable, reliable customer solutions
• Guide the design of individual experiments as well as shape broader experimental strategy and priorities
• Be responsible for the successful delivery of data analyses and processing solutions in both R&D and customer-facing product context
• Operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, balancing risk, setting priorities, and helping teams navigate uncertainty
• Provide hands-on technical contributions as appropriate to your teams’ strengths and gaps
• Drive corporate strategy & initiatives, be a positive cultural role model, and be one of Nautilus’s ambassadors to the world!

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant experience in a high performing biotechnology organization, including 10+ years of experience in a leadership role
• PhD in Bioinformatics or a related field
• A proven track record of leading many bioinformatics teams to success on very complex projects that bring together a wide variety of disciplines and skill sets
• Demonstrated experience partnering with scientists developing novel biochemical approaches or assays
• Fluent in a wide variety of statistical analysis skills, data processing and visualization approaches, programming languages and environments, biological experimental techniques, and the ability to quickly acquire expertise in new topics on the fly
• A creative thinker capable of developing new foundational approaches for extracting value from entirely novel data sets and generating actionable conclusions from imperfect data (e.g. missing values, batch effects, highly-skewed distributions, outliers, etc.)
• Strong organization, communication, problem solving, and project management skills, and a willingness to jump in to help wherever it is needed
• A leader who is trusted by everyone within the organization and can lead directly as well as through collaboration & influence

Pay

Compensation Range: $224K - $337K