Principal Scientist, Director Scientific Affairs
Description
Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to join a company that invests in its employees? Are you seeking a position where you can use your skills while continuing to be challenged and learn? Then we encourage you to dive deeper into this opportunity.
We believe in career development and empowering our employees. Not only do we provide career coaches internally, but we offer many training opportunities to expand your knowledge base! We have highly competitive benefits with a variety of HMO and PPO options. We have company 401k match along with an Employee Stock Purchase Program. We have tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and even start employees off with 16 days of paid time off plus holidays. We offer wellness courses and have highly engaged employee resource groups. Come join the Neo team and be part of our amazing World Class Culture!
NeoGenomics is looking for a Principal Scientist, Director of Scientific Affairs, who wants to continue to learn in order to allow our company to grow.
Now that you know what we're looking for in talent, let us tell you why you'd want to work at NeoGenomics: As an employer, we promise to provide you with a purpose-driven mission in which you have the opportunity to save lives by improving patient care through the exceptional work you perform. Together, we will become the world's leading cancer reference laboratory.
Position Summary:
The Principal Scientist, Director of Scientific Affairs, serves as a key scientific leader and subject matter expert within the Pharma Services business unit. This role supports revenue growth by providing technical and scientific leadership across multiple modalities, guiding project specifications and timelines, and ensuring high-quality scientific input for clinical trials, research projects, and client engagements. The Director represents Pharma Services both internally and externally, supporting publications, presentations, and scientific collaborations to strengthen NeoGenomics’ brand and industry visibility.
As a core member of the Scientific Affairs team, the Director contributes to strategic planning, oversees scientific aspects of statements of work and development initiatives, and ensures strong scientific foundations for assays and technologies across Molecular, IHC, Flow Cytometry, MultiOmyx/Multiplex, FISH, and Cytogenetics. This role partners closely with Product Management, Technical Operations, Marketing, Quality, and Regulatory teams, while maintaining deep awareness of the oncology landscape and emerging pharmaceutical trends. The Director also leads scientific communication through publications, webinars, white papers, and external engagements to support portfolio innovation and scientific leadership.
Core Responsibilities:
- Represents NeoGenomics Scientific Affairs at high profile or strategic forums, including but not limited to sponsor meetings, interactions with vendors and other internal departments, conferences and internal stakeholder meetings
- Evaluates, interprets and understands Clinical Oncology trends in Pharmaceutical Development
- Consistently interacts and supports Commercial teams in developing and presenting project proposals and statements of work for development, validation and clinical study projects
- Supports Business Development Directors in their interactions with clients, providing the scientific support necessary to promote our testing portfolio increasing revenue
- Independently designs new innovations within our modality areas
- Consistently and independently performs the more complex level of procedures and projects
- Provides the leadership on project design and feasibility studies
- Engages in literature reviews to understand trends in Clinical Oncology, writes project/product proposals for sponsors based in a deep scientific understanding of the therapeutic modality, target and indication
- Reviews and evaluates new testing opportunities
- Presents project updates to the management team and clients
- Prepares high quality technical material including papers, client presentations and technical content for marketing materials
- Participates in oral presentations at conferences, symposiums and webinars
- Familiar with CAP/CLIA, IVD, IVDR and other regulatory requirements dictated by regulatory agencies
- Must demonstrate proficiency in all the Core Responsibilities of a Senior Scientist
Experience, Education and Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in a life, physical, or computer science or M.D. preferred, M.S. in a life, physical or computer science with related experience, or BS in a life or physical sciences with significant supervisory experience
- 8+ years industry experience in a Reference Laboratory, CRO, Diagnostics Laboratory, or Pharma Translational Team within an Operations or a Scientific/Medical Affairs Team
- Knowledge of NGS solutions for DNA and RNA sequencing, and in particular knowledge of MRD detection solutions for solid tumors
- Client facing experience
- Deep knowledge of the Oncology Therapeutic Area in an industry setting (large pharma and biotech)
- Experience developing and driving biomarker strategies, their implementation, and execution for several clinical programs
- Experience interpreting clinical protocols: primary/secondary objectives and endpoints, inclusion/exclusion criteria, schedule of activities and others
- Experience assessing and implementing a broad array of biomarker platforms and technologies to support oncology clinical programs
Travel: 10%
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
Pay Range (will vary based on location & experience) $126,000 - $217,000
In all instances, the salary paid will satisfy minimum salary laws.