Why join Freenome
Freenome is a highgrowth biotech company developing tests to detect cancer using a standard blood draw. To do this Freenome uses a multiomics platform that combines tumor and nontumor signals with machine learning to find cancer in its earliest mosttreatable stages.
Cancer is relentless. This is why Freenome is building the clinical economic and operational evidence to drive cancer screening and save lives. Our first screening test is for colorectal cancer (CRC) and advanced adenomas and it’s just the beginning.
Founded in 2014 Freenome has 400 employees and continues to grow to match the scope of our ambitions to provide access to better screening and earlier cancer detection.
At Freenome we aim to impact patients by empowering everyone to prevent detect and treat their disease. This together with our highperforming culture of respect and crosscollaboration is what motivates us to make every day count.
Become a Freenomer
Do you have what it takes to be a Freenomer A “Freenomer” is a determined missiondriven resultsoriented employee fueled by the opportunity to change the landscape of cancer and make a positive impact on patients’ lives. Freenomers bring their diverse experience expertise and personal perspective to solve problems and push to achieve what’s possible one breakthrough at a time.
About This Opportunity
At Freenome we are seeking a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our Infrastructure team that is providing the services for early cancer detection blood tests as well as other company wide initiatives. The ideal candidate is a servantleader that is comfortable managing a growing team focused on meeting the needs of internal customers navigating ambiguity and adapting to rapid change. You are passionate about building a healthy collaborative work environment and are a steward of our cultural values. You have demonstrated the ability to lead teams in building infrastructure in a regulatory industry and you have the potential to have a significant impact on the continued growth of a high profile technology organization that is changing the landscape on early cancer detection.
This role reports to our Vice President Software Engineering.
What You’ll Do
Execution Excellence
- Provide direct strategic and tactical leadership to your department
- Provide leadership in developing new strategies methodologies and solutions to improve execution towards department and companylevel objectives
- Partner with our QA Department to ensure the highest level of regulatory compliance with recognized quality best practice
- Translate business segment strategy into crossfunctional plans and guide plan execution
- Accountable for the performance and results of your department (Monitoring performance and initiating action to strengthen results)
- Proactively communicate crossfunctionally with key stakeholders to adapt as needed through reprioritization and alignment
- Ensure budgets resourcing and timelines meet company requirements
- Empowers department to take calculated risks and make mistakes as a team but collectively learn from these experiences ensuring institutional knowledge is retained and applied in the future
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity using trial and error to thoughtfully iterate towards the best solution balancing time and resource constraints
- Anticipate factors that could cause issues that have departmental or crossfunctional impact and formulates preventive strategies
Communication and Collaboration
- Proactively requests feedback from others and are open to continuous feedback
- Consistently delivers actionable and timely feedback to people at all levels in a way that strengthens relationships and enables functional initiatives to advance more quickly
- Provide consistent communications to key functional and crossfunctional stakeholders on progress and updates
- Guides department in effective communication and collaboration avoiding triangulation or churn and fostering direct communication
- Adapts communications to audience requirements to optimize understanding and results adapting to diverse communication styles
- Build and maintain strong healthy relationships with crossfunctional peers
- Provide representation for your department to executive leadership through reporting presentations and Quarterly Business Review type meetings
Culture
- Lead by example integrate and reinforce our Values and Principles as much as possible
- Coaches and provides guidance to direct reports to foster our Values and Principles across departments
- Recognizes Values and Principles gaps in your department on an ongoing basis and implement solutions and creates opportunities to grow in those areas
People Leadership
- Actively identifies internal transfer and growth opportunities empowering team members to pursue them
- Perform quarterly talent reviews
- Addresses performance issues with direct constructive and actionable feedback
- Provides inspiration and leads department towards the company mission vision and culture
- Gives direction and organizational clarity in roles and responsibilities to execute on department and company OKRs more effectively
- Effectively cascades organizational strategy and contributes to the development of organizational procedures
- Actively involved in recruitment attracting and retaining top talent to build high performing teams
Must Haves
- BS MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering or a related field; or equivalent training fellowship or work experience
- 5 years of experience in engineering leadership and management
- 3 years of infrastructure experience with a track record of building and deploying infrastructure as part of a highfunctioning team
- Multipublic cloud experience (AWS Azure GCP)
- Deep knowledge and proven working experience in managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure services networking security
- Proven experience in leveraging automation tools and infrastructureascode techniques as a key strategy for managing infrastructure
- Proven experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
- Proven expertise in building high performance teams
- A demonstrated ability to structure grow and optimize a team for execution including attracting top talent and filling in gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth
- Experience with project management and prioritization risk management problemsolving and resource planning
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills up down and peer to peer
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience in biotechnology bioinformatics regulated software or similar field
- Experience in a startup environment
- Experience leading teams in a highly regulated environment
- Experience leading teams developing infrastructure as part of a Medical Device
- Exposure to big data especially biological and clinical data
Benefits And Additional Information
The US target range of our base salary for new hires is $19720 $304000. You will also be eligible to receive preIPO equity cash bonuses and a full range of medical financial and other benefits depending on the position offered. Please note that individual total compensation for this position will be determined at the Company’s sole discretion and may vary based on several factors including but not limited to location skill level years and depth of relevant experience and education. We invite you to check out our career page @
freenome.com/jobopenings/ for additional company information.
Freenome is proud to be an equalopportunity employer and we value diversity. Freenome does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion marital status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.
- Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)
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