Director Of Bioinformatics

Paragon Genomics is a fast-growing life sciences company developing advanced reagents and assay kits for next-generation sequencing (NGS). To support our rapid growth, we are seeking a full-time Director of Bioinformatics to join our growing team. This director is both a scientific/technology mentor and a hands-on leader. In this position, you will be a key member of the executive team and responsible for all aspects of software development for Paragon Genomics’ Bioinformatics products, including staffing and managing the software development team, driving team culture, best practices, collaboration with the content, marketing, and support teams, and directing the strategy and product path of our NGS business. You should have experience managing agile teams in a continuous integration environment, building multiple software products on a shared, modular platform, and delivering sophisticated products with high quality and predictable schedules. The ideal candidate will be passionate about the potential of next-generation sequencing custom panel design, data analysis, computation and visualization of complex scientific data, knowledge extraction/management, building simple but elegant software solutions, and delivering customer-centric products. Leadership, communication, prioritization, and a focus on excellence are essential characteristics for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership:
  • Vision for growing the business and exceeding customer requirements in bioinformatics.
  • Technical leadership – an expert in bioinformatics weighing in on NGS and genomics.
  • Inspire, mentor, develop, and manage a team.
  • Ensure and maintain scientific rigor and quality.

• Efficient collaboration to support:
  • Internal – R&D, sales and marketing
  • External – collaborators and customers

• Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver high impact presentations:
  • Internally for efficient collaboration and product development
  • Externally (conferences, publications, patents)

Qualifications

• MS or Ph.D. in relevant biological fields
• Technical expertise consisting of 5 years of NGS-related bioinformatics experience with targeted sequencing; 3 years of leadership. Demonstrating increasing responsibilities and contributions.
• Programming languages and software proficiency:
  • Demonstrated expertise with at least one language (Python, Perl, Shell Scripting, R, C++)
  • Experience with custom software development
  • Familiarity with parallel computing, database, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Hands-on experience with Git
• Hands-on experience with analysis pipeline development.
• RNA-seq/fusion assay development experience
• Self-driven, with the desire to build the best products in the world
• Flexible working hours

Additional Information:
This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements, but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts the company’s rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Paragon Genomics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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About Paragon Genomics:
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Paragon Genomics is a fast-growing precision medicine company. Our patented targeted sequencing technologies CleanPlex DNA, CleanPlex RNA, and CleanPlex UMI provide comprehensive solutions to precision diagnostics in oncology, infectious disease, inherited disease, reproductive health, neurology, cardiology, and many other applications. Our technologies and products have been adopted by hundreds of prominent Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) labs globally. With our platforms, we can efficiently and rapidly produce unique and customized next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays to meet the needs of researchers, testing labs, and biopharma precision medicine projects.

The Company was selected by a distinguished panel into the California Life Science Association F.A.S.T. Program in March 2016 and was accepted into the prestigious Stanford StartX Medicine Accelerator Program in September 2016.

Paragon Genomics offers a competitive and comprehensive employee benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and life insurance, flexible spending account, 401K, paid time off, and stock options.

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