Natera - Director, Field Translational Science — Oncology
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Requirements
• Required Education: PhD or MD in Cancer Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, or a related complex molecular science discipline. • Required Experience: 6+ years of total experience within basic or translational oncology research, including a minimum of 2+ years of explicit people management experience leading high-performing scientific or clinical teams within the diagnostics, biotechnology or pharmaceutical sectors. • Domain Mastery: Exceptional command of cancer biology and genetics, liquid biopsy modalities and clinical utilities, next-generation sequencing (NGS) and ctDNA workflows and data interpretation, and statistical methods. • Domain Mastery: • Data-Centric Track Record: Documented success managing complex genomic datasets, institutional electronic medical record (EMR) integrations, or complex clinical data registries. • Data-Centric Track Record: • Leadership Style: Proven ability to manage teams through high ambiguity, prioritizing structured logic and rapid, high-judgment decision-making over consensus-driven delays. • Leadership Style: • Operational Mobility: Ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 50-70% to support team execution, site audits, and principal investigator collaborations. • Operational Mobility: • The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. • $150,000—$220,000 USD • OUR OPPORTUNITY • OUR OPPORTUNITY • Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. • The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
Responsibilities
• Team Leadership & Scale: Hire, develop, and manage a premier field organization of PhD and MD translational scientists, establishing clear performance metrics tied to regional data velocity, scientific rigor, and publication quality. • Team Leadership & Scale: • Strategic Data Architecture: Author and execute the regional data engagement strategy, guiding how field scientists partner with oncologists, pathologists, and biometricians to unlock complex ctDNA and real-world datasets; holds the institutional/enterprise escalation line for the direct day-to-day communication line with the clinicians. • Strategic Data Architecture: • Regional Operations & Systems Governance: Oversee the secure regional tracking architecture and data ingestion pipelines that individual Field Translational Scientists operate within; ensure absolute data compliance, system integrity, and streamlined data flow from investigator sites into internal analysis platforms. • Regional Operations & Systems Governance: • Cross-Functional Governance: Command the interface between field operations and internal Oncology Translational Medicine & Scientific Communications, Medical Affairs, Life Cycle, R&D and Product Development leadership, translating field-derived real-world evidence into high-impact pipeline recommendations. • Cross-Functional Governance: • Investigator-Led Portfolio Management: In partnership with MSLs, oversee the lifecycle of all regional investigator-initiated trials (IITs) and institutional registries, ensuring team members enable investigators to maximize the utility of Natera’s proprietary analytical tools and data visualization platforms to achieve statistical robustness and prompt manuscript generation. • Investigator-Led Portfolio Management: • Institutional Network Expansion: Secure, scale, and manage institutional data-sharing models, biobanking governance, and EMR data-integration initiatives with core comprehensive cancer networks. • Institutional Network Expansion: • Scientific Advocacy & Compliance: Represent Natera as a senior scientific authority at major oncology congresses, ensuring all field data-handling methods maintain absolute alignment with HIPAA, CAP/CLIA, PHI data protocols, FDA regulations, and PhRMA codes of interaction. • Scientific Advocacy & Compliance:
Benefits
• Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program! • For more information, visit www.natera.com.
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