Scientific Director – Breast Cancer Portfolio

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide scientific and strategic direction for evidence generation across the breast cancer diagnostic product portfolio.

• Develop and implement integrated evidence-generation strategies for both in-development and commercially available assays.

• Establish evidence requirements for product development, regulatory submissions, reimbursement, clinical adoption, and guideline inclusion.

• Identify opportunities for indication expansion and the development of next-generation products.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, assess, and prioritize clinical datasets.

• Provide scientific oversight for retrospective, prospective, observational, and translational studies.

• Create study concepts, research plans, protocols, and endpoints in conjunction with Biostatistics and Medical teams.

• Oversee study execution, interpretation, reporting, progress, and address scientific or operational challenges.

• Establish and nurture relationships with key opinion leaders, academic medical centers, cooperative groups, and research networks.

• Lead external scientific collaborations and act as the primary scientific contact for investigators.

• Write and review research proposals and assess external proposals.

• Develop publication strategies and spearhead abstracts, presentations, posters, and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

• Convert study findings into robust, clinically relevant evidence and present scientific data effectively.

• Collaborate with Product, Medical, Biostatistics, AI, and Market Access teams.

• Represent Clinical Development on cross-functional product teams and contribute to product claims, target product profiles, and commercialization strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Ph.D., M.D., Pharm.D., or an equivalent advanced degree in oncology, cancer biology, pathology, molecular biology, epidemiology, or a related field.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in oncology clinical development, translational research, diagnostics, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical development.

• Proven expertise in breast cancer biology and clinical management.

• Experience in developing and executing clinical studies that support molecular diagnostics, digital pathology, genomic assays, AI-based diagnostics, or companion diagnostics.

• Background in leading collaborations with academic investigators and cooperative research groups.

• A track record of first-author, senior-author, or collaborative peer-reviewed publications.

• Experience in authoring study protocols, research proposals, abstracts, and manuscripts.

• Strong understanding of clinical trial methodology, observational studies, and translational research.

• Experience in cross-functional environments involving regulatory, product, commercial, and scientific stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage clinical experts.

• Strong strategic thinking and analytical capabilities.

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment with a high degree of ownership.

• Passion for enhancing patient care through AI-driven healthcare innovation.

• Expected travel of up to 5% domestically and internationally for scientific collaboration meetings.

• Preferred: experience in developing evidence strategies for commercially available diagnostic assays.

• Preferred: experience in supporting regulatory submissions for diagnostic products.

• Preferred: familiarity with breast cancer prognostic, predictive, and treatment-selection assays.

• Preferred: experience with real-world data, real-world evidence, and outcomes research.

• Preferred: knowledge of digital pathology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or multimodal biomarkers.

• Preferred: existing relationships with breast cancer investigators, cooperative groups, and academic research networks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity is a fundamental part of the compensation package.

• 401k matching.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).