Associate Director, Computational Biology

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Sage Bionetworks

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit leader in open science that builds and operates data platforms and community-driven tools to accelerate biomedical research and discovery. The organization enables secure data sharing, large-scale dataset reuse, and collaborative analysis—often using machine learning and AI—to advance understanding of diseases, biomarkers, and therapeutic responses. Sage emphasizes radical collaboration, transparency, and infrastructure (e. g. , the Synapse platform and a Python client) to support researchers, challenges, and portals across a wide range of biomedical domains.

📋 Description

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team focused on applied scientific research, biomedical data stewardship, and community engagement • Establish scientific direction, data management standards, and community-engagement practices with governance and platform teams • Ensure Sage’s data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), aligned with GA4GH data-sharing standards, and trusted by the research community • Serve as a strategic partner to organizational leadership and connect data stewardship and community initiatives to Sage’s broader mission • Identify opportunities to expand adoption of Sage’s data assets and contribute to platform development priorities • Represent Sage with data generators, researchers, funders, consortium partners, and other stakeholders • Communicate the scientific value of managed data, data derivatives, and software platforms while identifying community needs and growth opportunities • Apply statistical, bioinformatic, and computational biology methods, including exploratory analysis, benchmarking, and tooling, to large-scale multi-omic data • Oversee curation, organization, annotation, and lifecycle management of biomedical datasets • Partner with the Privacy and Compliance Office on data governance frameworks and access-control models • Champion FAIR principles and relevant GA4GH standards, including data-use ontologies, federated data access, and genomic data-sharing frameworks • Lead harmonization of complex, multi-source biomedical datasets for cross-study and cross-consortium analysis and reuse • Identify and manage data governance, privacy, and compliance risks • Build and sustain internal and external researcher communities through engagement programs, meetings, documentation, and outreach • Coordinate research by external scientists and consortium partners using Sage’s data • Hire, manage, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary staff • Ensure effective data operations tools, systems, and practices, including responsible AI-assisted and agentic workflows • Lead grant proposals and funding strategies • Establish growth paths and continuously improve data management, governance, and community practices

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in a relevant scientific, data, or informatics discipline, or equivalent depth of experience in lieu of an advanced degree • 8+ years of progressive experience in scientific research, biomedical data management, data governance, research data curation, or a closely related field • Leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder data or collaborative science initiatives • Experience working in multi-institutional collaborations and consortia • 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and/or developing data managers, computational biologists, bioinformaticians, or community engagement professionals • Track record of securing research funding, including at least one competitive NIH or comparable award • Experience across the proposal lifecycle, including opportunity identification, partner collaboration, budget and effort planning, and post-award reporting • Demonstrated experience applying open science and FAIR data principles and supporting responsible data sharing for human subjects data • Experience with GA4GH standards or comparable genomic/clinical data-sharing frameworks • Experience building or activating a research community around a shared data resource or platform • Experience collaborating with and coordinating external scientists or consortium partners • Experience managing funder relationships and communicating scientific and data value to program officers and sponsors • Ability to operate strategically while remaining close to data operations and community activity • Ability to influence decisions and create alignment across teams and leaders without relying solely on formal authority • Strong judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving organizational needs • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Able to work effectively under deadlines • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills • Attention to detail and accuracy • Flexibility to adapt to changing environments, priorities and multitask • Travel two times per year for on-site events in Seattle, WA • Cover letter required; do not upload your resume as your cover letter

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability • Robust retirement plan • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Remote or hybrid arrangements within the United States • Virtual-first interviews conducted virtually • Reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process