Director, Medical Science Liaison – Central

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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💵 $148k - $222k / year

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Karius

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Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance • Artificial Intelligence

Karius is a biotechnology company specializing in infectious disease diagnostics. The company uses genomics and artificial intelligence to detect microbial cell-free DNA from pathogens in the bloodstream, enabling the identification of over 1000 pathogens causing infections. Karius aims to transform infectious disease diagnosis with the help of clinical metagenomics, providing clear and timely diagnostic results. Their innovative Karius Test is a novel liquid biopsy designed to provide clinicians with comprehensive diagnostic insights into infections, even in immunocompromised patients.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Partner with Regional Sales Directors and Clinical Sales Managers (CSMs) to support pre- and post-sale activities, ensuring the MSL team assists with the clinical close of the sale and contributes directly to territory and regional performance goals. • Provide medical and scientific expertise that strengthens account development, accelerates clinical adoption, and supports successful onboarding and expansion within customer sites. • Recruit, hire, train, and lead a high-performing field team of Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs). • Coach and develop MSLs to effectively communicate clinical value, influence clinical decision-making, and support commercial objectives in partnership with Sales. • Ensure the MSL team maintains high levels of clinical expertise and consistently delivers credible, compliant scientific engagement. • Deliver and support formal presentations and educational programs (e.g., Grand Rounds, ASP meetings, roundtables) using peer-reviewed publications, clinical evidence, case studies, and approved materials. • Assist institutions in developing and implementing best practices, protocols, and workflows to maximize the clinical utility of Karius tests. • Build and maintain strong relationships with clinicians, clinical champions, and future key opinion leaders (KOLs) to support clinical adoption and long-term success. • Identify, support, and elevate centers of excellence that can serve as benchmarks for other customer sites. • Support alignment and communication between Medical and Commercial teams to support seamless customer experience and consistent field execution. • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, and Product teams to relay clinical insights that inform marketing programs, sales initiatives, product development, and corporate strategy. • Foster relationships with advisors, consultants, investigators, expert speakers, and strategic partners to enrich field education and support broader organizational objectives. • Review promotional, educational, and marketing materials to ensure scientific and medical accuracy. • Maintain deep and current expertise in infectious diseases, diagnostics, and clinical applications of the Karius Test through participation in internal meetings, committees, and ongoing medical education. • Work closely with Medical Affairs, Medical Directors and Sales Training to ensure the field team remains up-to-date on the latest clinical evidence and relevant data. • Contribute to clinical evidence generation strategies by providing field observations, customer feedback, and insights into emerging clinical needs. • Travel required up to 70%.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced clinical degree (e.g. PharmD, NP, PA-C) 5+ years experience managing a team is preferred. • Experience in hospital based product or clinical process implementation, quality improvement projects, and/or diagnostic stewardship committee involvement, preferred. • Experience in sourcing and recruiting top talent. Experience working in industry supporting sales teams with complex diagnostic sales is highly desirable. • Measurable experience as a clinician or nurse is required. Familiarity with infectious disease diagnosis, treatment and/or microbiology/virology methods is required. • Valid Driver’s License. • Familiarity with Microsoft office; PowerPoint, Work and Excel, Microsoft Suite and contact management databases i.e Salesforce. • Knowledge of medical institution hierarchy. • Sales experience, a plus. • Knowledge of Laboratory workflow and fiscal operations, a plus. • Knowledge of cfDNA technology, a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities