Remote Molecular Lab Manager

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

With the advent of genomic sequencing, we can finally decode and process our genetic makeup. We now have more data than ever before but providers don’t have the infrastructure or expertise to make sense of said data. Here at Tempus, we believe the greatest promise for the detection and treatment of cancer lies in the deep understanding of molecular activity for disease initiation, progression, and efficacious treatment based on the discovery of unique biomarkers.

We’re on a mission to connect an entire ecosystem to redefine how genomic data is used in clinical settings. We’re looking to build a laboratory operations team who are passionate and focused on developing state of the art techniques for processing and creating and interpreting vast amounts of genomic and molecular data. You will collaborate with product, research, and business development teams to develop the most advanced sequencing platform in cancer care.

What you’ll do:

• Coordinate the operational activities of a cutting-edge clinical laboratory to support a molecular workflow with rapid turnaround times. This role primarily oversees high throughput next-generation sequencing workflows for oncology, pharmacogenetics, and inherited cancer panels.
• Deliver regular updates to the Associate Director and Director of Clinical Lab Operations to summarize laboratory performance, turnaround times, instrument downtime, productivity, and other performance metrics
• Oversee laboratory activity and participate in completion of daily activities as necessary
• Provide solutions to highly complex problems and apply a high degree of ingenuity, creativity and innovation
• Ensure high quality results for all samples within the sequencing workflow
• Reviews daily, weekly, and monthly QC results and determines the validity of results, performs follow up as needed
• Oversee safety within the laboratory and ensure all safety protocols are followed
• Maintain regulatory compliance within the lab, including CAP, CLIA, NYS, OSHA, etc
• Keep standard operating procedures up to date
• Develop and implement workflows for new assays
• Provides technical direction, mentoring, and professional guidance to laboratory employees
• Resolve technical, instrument, or unexpected tests results and ensures corrective actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications
• Evaluate the training and competency of all testing personnel on an ongoing basis

Preferred Qualifications:

• One of the following educational requirements:

  • MD + at least 2 years lab experience
  • PhD + at least 2 years lab experience
  • M.S. (physical, chemical, or biological science) + at least 4 years pertinent clinical lab experience (at least 2 of which are in the designated specialty)
  • BS in clinical laboratory science, chemical, physical or biological sciences and at least 7 years of pertinent clinical lab experience

• Experience supervising others in a CLIA/CAP high-complexity laboratory

• Experience in Next Generation Sequencing highly desirable

• Strong leadership abilities with high standards of personal and professional integrity

• Excellent communication skills with direct and indirect reports as well as in collaboration with cross functional stakeholders

• Impeccable attention to detail

• Ability to delegate tasks to others

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment demonstrating and ability to adapt to changing circumstances and project priorities

• Ability to work with others to plan and carry out scientific programs

• Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction

• Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.