Bioinformatics Team Manager

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🕒 April 26

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DNAstack

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🧬 Biotechnology

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 Pre Seed Round - DNAstack on 2019-01

Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

<DNAstack> is a software company offering Omics AI, a standards‑compliant SaaS platform that enables federated discovery, sharing, and AI‑powered analysis of omics and health data. It helps data custodians connect, protect, and share sensitive genomic and health datasets across distributed national and international research networks while maintaining GA4GH compliance, privacy, and security. DNAstack’s products power pandemic surveillance, neuroscience, rare disease, and oncology collaborations by making federated data findable, accessible, and analyzable without centralizing sensitive data.

📋 Description

• Lead a small, senior team with a genuine commitment to individual growth - including regular development conversations, clear feedback, and helping people build careers. • Collaboratively shape the future of the function at DNAstack • Define and communicate the bioinformatics roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership, ensuring work is impactful and aligned with company priorities. • Build and maintain credibility with senior leadership by proactively communicating the function's direction, surfacing risks and tradeoffs clearly, and making the case for staffing and investment with evidence • Improve how bioinformatics projects are prioritized, scoped, tracked, and documented to promote sustainability and transparency. • Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design to deliver integrated, user-facing solutions informed by bioinformatics insights. • Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and scaling the team as the company grows. • Stay current on industry tools, standards, and datasets, bringing best practices into the team.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years managing technical teams, including the harder parts: career development conversations, navigating team dynamics, and holding people accountable while genuinely supporting their growth • Ability to communicate bioinformatics priorities and constraints to technical and non-technical senior leadership and build trust through transparency and follow-through • Strong understanding of genomics and bioinformatics, with the ability to engage in scientific discussions and shape technical direction. • Experience with core bioinformatics tools and data types (e.g., BAM, VCF, FASTQ; samtools, bcftools, etc.) and pipeline frameworks (WDL, Nextflow, Snakemake, CWL). • Knowledge of programming/scripting frameworks (Python, R, or similar), with enough depth to review work, guide decisions, and support debugging. • Familiarity with cloud and/or HPC computing environments and reproducibility best practices. • A strategic mindset with the ability to help prioritize work, scope new projects, and connect technical decisions to product and scientific goals • 5+ years of hands-on experience in bioinformatics, with demonstrated expertise in NGS data analysis and production-scale pipelines • Graduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in bioinformatics, computational biology, genetics, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote friendly, with flexible hours and the opportunity to work on-site at our Toronto office • Comprehensive health benefits: medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents • Three weeks vacation • Unlimited sick days • Maternity and parental leave top-up programs • One-time remote office set-up stipend • Career development and learning support • Opportunity to participate in DNAstack's Employee Stock Option Program • Opportunity to contribute to open science and global data-sharing efforts