VP, Strategy and Scientific Excellence at Seven Bridges | Powderkeg

Location: U.S.

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Strategy

At Seven Bridges we are building the most advanced cloud computing platform to realize the promise of precision medicine. Our team and products enable scientists to analyze petabyte-scale molecular and health data faster and more efficiently than ever to identify new therapeutic targets, improve diagnostics and accelerate understanding of the basic underpinnings of health and disease. Seven Bridges products and offerings provide the usability and scalability expected of consumer products while respecting the inherent complexity of bleeding edge analytic approaches. Through our collaboration with the largest genomics projects, we connect the world’s biomedical information to enable the most effective analysis at scale. We are a global company with offices in the US, UK, Serbia and Turkey, with roughly 300 employees and rapidly growing!

Seven Bridges is a remote friendly company, headquartered in Boston, MA.

Do you want to help us engineer a healthier tomorrow, together?

As the VP of Strategy and Scientific Excellence you will play a critical role in setting the long term vision and direction of Seven Bridges products and ensuring that scientific rigor is deeply woven throughout all of our offerings.

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You will build and oversee the Strategy Management team which is

responsible for:

  • Defining overall market objectives, long term strategy roadmap, and business value (P&L/ROI)
  • Defining, refining, and gaining executive buy-in for product vision (1-5+ yr) and product principles
  • Validating need in marketplace and establishing outcome-focused value propositions
  • Defining positioning, GTM, launch, pricing strategy, compliance/legal agreements, sales enablement, implementation and support approaches
  • Identifying / engaging partners (including potential M&A opportunities) throughout the product lifecycle to facilitate overarching objectives
  • Capturing the pulse of the market and predicting opportunities of inflection
  • Developing detailed market landscapes, competitive analysis and differentiation strategies
  • Supporting the capture, analysis, and synthesis of market performance and customer experience to enable data based decision making
  • Collaborating deeply with the product, marketing, and scientific engagement teams to successfully launch and drive adoption of high impact solutions to challenging problems

Additionally, you will build and oversee a Scientific Center of Excellence

which is responsible for:

  • Providing expert, subject matter specific insights to inform product development and strategy
  • Developing compelling, rigorous and scientifically motivated demonstrations of Seven Bridges products and technologies in partnership with scientists both within and outside of Seven Bridges
  • Serving as evangelists (via both written and verbal communication) for Seven Bridges, including building relationships with thought leaders in the Scientific community
  • Partnering with the scientific engagement team, sales, technology and other members of the organization to envision solutions for complex client needs
  • Serving as champions of Seven Bridges in community standards organizations and consortia
  • Evaluating new technologies and use cases to expand the art of the possible

As you build these two functions you will act as a player/coach and deeply

partner with the Chief Science Officer and other Seven Bridges leaders to accelerate ongoing activities. You will execute with autonomy while facilitating alignment and collaboration across multiple functions. You will additionally champion the Customer Advisory Committee, serve as a thought leader and representative for Seven Bridges in the community, and exhibit unrelenting passion to accelerate the realization of precision medicine.

  • Advanced degree (PhD/ MD / MBA) and/or 10+ years experience in relevant scientific field
  • Demonstrated experience recruiting, training, retaining and maximizing the productivity of high functioning technical teams during times of organizational growth
  • 8+ years proven experience ideating, iterating and executing significant corporate strategies leading to accelerated revenue growth and innovation
  • Success leading cradle-to-grave product initiatives
  • Experience developing partnerships, channels and evaluating M&A opportunities
  • Demonstrated ability to craft scientifically accurate and compelling written and verbal communications
  • Experience creating successful outcomes via cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
  • Ability to ask questions, constantly learn, adapt, and evolve
  • Ability to manage uncertainty, demonstrate good judgment and incorporate data into decisions whenever appropriate and feasible

What is in Seven Bridges’ DNA?

Our Mission: Seven Bridges will significantly decrease the time, cost and risk to bring new precision medicine products to market by maximizing the productivity of bio pharma/tech research and development organizations in; formulation, productization, identification, success and optimization.

Our Values: These represent who we are and what we stand for. We pride ourselves on being true to our values in everything we do. Building successful partnerships, acting with a sense of urgency, making scientists happy, acting with integrity, treating data with respect, committed to excellence and working together

Our team and culture: With backgrounds in genomics, computer science and computational biology to sales and finance our talented team is passionate about building solutions to the most challenging problems of precision medicine. We believe that teamwork makes the dream work! By acting with empathy, supporting each other and learning from our challenges we exemplify commitment to quality results faster.

Our perks: We offer challenging career opportunities, employer paid health insurance, 33 days of PTO, retirement options and an environment that recognizes and rewards performance. Uncapped earnings potential, opportunity to join both as a key player in an exciting and high growth potential space, as well as a sales team early on with room for growth and expansion of responsibilities

Enough about us, let’s talk about you!

If you have gotten this far and are looking for the right balance of teamwork, challenge, fun and would like to help push genomics forward please send us your resume and a cover letter. If your qualifications fit the profile we are looking for we will contact you in a timely manner.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    VP, Strategy and Scientific Excellence
  • Company
    Seven Bridges
  • Location
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  • Employment Type
    Full time
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