← All roles

Associate Director of Bioinformatics (Women's Health and Organ Health)

Natera· Molecular Biology Informatics & Statistics
Apply on company site
Remote$166.6k - $202kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead a team of Bioinformatics Scientists in the Women's Health and Organ Health research organization, overseeing scientific planning, assay-development, and production-ready pipeline components within a regulated (CLIA) environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of Bioinformatics Scientists. Own their professional growth, their responsibilities, and the standard the team holds itself to.
  • Own the research strategy behind new product development, from scoping through execution, working with cross-functional stakeholders on what the team takes on and in what order.
  • Lead bioinformatics analysis for assay development and optimization, and troubleshoot experiments alongside laboratory scientists. This spans multi-omic approaches including methylation and fragmentomics and other cfDNA derived features. It also spans short-read and long-read sequencing and both hybrid-capture and amplicon target enrichment.
  • Partner with laboratory teams on study design at the research and feasibility stage, covering new technology assessment, optimization, and performance determination. Ensure data quality before production.
  • Advise and prototype improvements to analysis pipelines, including variant detection, quality control, and modality-specific processing: methylation calling, fragment-size and end-motif analysis, error suppression for deep targeted panels, and structural-variant calling.
  • Move research prototypes into stable production workflows. Enforce software engineering practices: version control, testing, CI/CD, and containerization. Automate routine research data management, pipeline execution, and reporting.
  • Define and enforce AI usage standards within the team, determining what AI-driven conclusions are allowed to stand autonomously and what requires scientist sign-off.
  • Collaborate with data science, molecular biology, pipeline engineering, biostatistics, quality assurance, and laboratory operations on new products and the transition of research work into production.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Biostatistics, or a related field. (An M.S. with equivalent experience considered)
  • 7+ years in bioinformatics, including 3+ years leading scientists and working across functions
  • Demonstrated ownership of a team that took scientific research into real clinical use
  • Demonstrated experience developing or scientifically guiding diagnostic sequencing assays

Skills

Required:Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysisCell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencingRegulated product developmentPython programmingCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive Benefits - comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and dependents
  • Free testing for employees and immediate family, plus fertility care benefits
  • Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
  • 401k benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employee referral program
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Natera

A global leader in cfDNA testing

Dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Natera’s cell-free DNA tests help protect health and inform more personalized decisions about care.

oncologywomen's healthorgan healthcell-free DNA
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Natera