Lead Senior Director, Cytogenetics - San Juan Capistrano, CA (Hybrid)

Job Description

The Lead Senior Cytogenetics Director oversees key responsibilities including leading team members who review and release clinical genetic data and ensuring quality in technical and monitoring projects.  They establish relationships with team members, provide guidance and performance management, and allocate resources based on case volumes and turnaround times. Communication of project status and challenges is crucial, alongside ensuring staff are equipped to perform high-quality work.

This position will be located (hybrid) in San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Pay Range: $220,000 - $250,000/year

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. Successful candidates may be eligible to receive annual performance bonus compensation.

Benefits Information:

We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects – physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part-time or full-time position, some of the benefits offered may include:

• Day 1 Medical, supplemental health, dental & vision for FT employees who work 30+ hours
• Best-in-class well-being programs
• Annual, no-cost health assessment program Blueprint for Wellness®
• healthyMINDS mental health program
• Vacation and Health/Flex Time
• 6 Holidays plus 1 "MyDay" off
• FinFit financial coaching and services
• 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth IRA with company match up to 5% after 12 months of service
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Life and disability insurance, plus buy-up option
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Annual incentive plans
• Matching gifts program
• Education assistance through MyQuest for Education
• Career advancement opportunities
• …and so much more!

Responsibilities:

• Fulfill the roles of the Senior Director. Additionally, mentors as direct reports Associate Directors, Directors, and Senior Directors.
• Creates and manages team goals which fit into broader higher level, and ultimately Quest, goal structures.
• Ensures technical and quality monitoring projects are balanced appropriately for the team and oversees progress and status.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with team members, providing coaching, feedback, support, and performance management as appropriate to ensure the team meets its goals and that team members can achieve their personal goals.
• Monitors the case volumes and TATs in different categories and allocates resources accordingly.
• Communicates status, progress, and challenges/blockers to peers or managers as appropriate.
• Assure the staff have the competency and the tools and guidelines needed to perform their work with high quality.
• Accurately reviews technical, clinical, and interpretive data according to established
• SOPs to generate high quality clinical reports. Supports live patient processing ~50% of the time.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director to ensure test results include pertinent information required for testing and be available to the laboratory’s clients on matters related to quality, interpretation and appropriateness of tests ordered.
• Develop cross-functional relationships with Variant Scientists, Genomic Science Specialists, Operations, Research and
• Development, Quality Assurance and Bioinformatics teams.
• Able to identify and evaluate clinical implications and risk, escalate as appropriate quickly and decisively.
• Recognize and resolve abnormal, unusual or unexpected results.
• Maintains subject matter expertise for clinical areas that are supported, including guidelines for that clinical testing area.
• Fulfill some delegated technical supervisor roles for more complex test offerings including:

1. Maintain a quality management program according to written policies and procedures.
2. Draft standard operating procedures (SOPs) for internal processes and continual update of SOPs.
3. Develop training and competency testing modules.
4. Ensures method validation studies are appropriate and have established the necessary performance characteristics of the test system(s).

Qualifications:

• A PhD or MD degree is required.
• Board-certified by ABMGG in both Clinical Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics, or board-certified in Molecular Genetic Pathology with significant experience in germline genetic testing.
• New York State (NYS CoQ) licensed/eligible.
• A minimum of 5 years of practical working experience in a clinical genetic testing laboratory post-board certification.
• Previous leadership experience, including people management.
• Previous practical experience in germline genetic testing and somatic genetic testing.
• Previous WES/WGS analysis experience.
• The ability to resolve difficulties without intervention. Proactively seeks out new data, technologies, and approaches and can incorporate them into projects work.
• Independently adjusts priorities according to workload or management needs.  Highly autonomous and productive in daily tasks.
• Understands communication needs at different levels in different contexts.

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