Associate Director

The Opportunity

Our Operations & Strategy team is expanding. We’re looking for a builder and doer, a teammate who is motivated by a mission and wants to put their imprint on a scaling company.

We are looking for an Associate Director, Strategy and Operations to work directly with our Chief Operating Officer (COO) to drive the company’s growth and operations, including the operations of the clinical diagnostics laboratory.

In this newly created position, you will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction and operational effectiveness of the company. Meaning: you bring a bias to action and know how to Get Stuff Done. You’ll work hand-in-hand with our COO to oversee and drive all aspects of the clinical laboratory including strategic planning, resourcing, and operations to ensure superb execution for partners and customers.

In addition, you will collaborate with our business operations functions (such as Finance, Legal, Project Management) to enable the business to continue deliver on plan with exceptional quality as we rapidly grow and scale. As part of this role, you will also play a key role in the development of plans and materials for key internal and external meetings and engagements.

About Us

We are pioneering an advanced, minimally invasive, comprehensive epigenomics platform with the potential to profoundly impact the research and development of new medicines and the use of approved medicines in clinical practice across a number of conditions, including cancer. More information on our company and platform can be found on our company website and in our recent publication in Nature Medicine.

We care deeply about creating a place where folks can do their best work from the start and have intentionally created an environment that is defined by purpose, teamwork, and excellence. This means nurturing team spirit, facing challenges together, collaboratively solving complex problems, while also ensuring a strong focus on individual initiative, accountability, and delivery.

Your Role

• You’ll drive the strategy and execution of our clinical lab in line with business needs and requirements (scaling, CDx requirements, etc.). This will be a continuous process and because you bring a growth mindset, you know there will be more iterations along the way.
• You’ll lead our annual budget process and ongoing tracking to plan to support strategic planning and prioritization decisions
• Identify and lead execution of opportunities for continued strategic and operational improvement to enable the continued rapid growth of the company
• As a connector and collaborator, you’ll lead efforts to optimize ways of working across the entire organization for effectiveness and efficiency
• Support execution and optimization of continuous improvements to our data infrastructure and security position as we continue to grow and mature
• Drive highly cross-functional sample management and planning processes to ensure high quality, on time delivery of results for customers and internal R&D efforts
• Support the COO in planning and development of materials for key internal and external meetings, including BOD meetings, Leadership offsites, Investor meetings.

• Bachelor’s degree in a core life science discipline such as biology, genetics, or related field; Masters or Ph.D. preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of strategy and operations experience within the diagnostics (preferred) or biopharma ecosystem; experience with oncology clinical genomics, epigenomics, and/or liquid biopsy applications strongly preferred
• At least 2+ years of management consulting experience in the life science sector strongly preferred
• Operational understanding of external innovation, drug discovery, translational and development processes in a diagnostic context
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate across all levels of the organization expected
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders, with proven track record of leading through influence
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and cooperatively in a creative, entrepreneurial and agile team environment
• Proven experience in taking initiative to problem solve and drive key outcomes required

We believe in building an inclusive and balanced team. We also know meeting every single-exact-criteria can get in the way of meeting stellar folks. Please don’t hesitate to apply!

Precede Biosciences is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and external recruiters. No fees will be paid for such submissions.