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About the Role
The Director, Laboratory and Pathology is accountable for the overall operation, administration, quality, and regulatory compliance of the South San Francisco laboratory, ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable laboratory services and appropriately qualified personnel.
Responsibilities
- Direct and oversee laboratory operations to provide high-quality, accurate, and timely diagnostic services.
- Provide medical and scientific oversight of histology workflows, including tissue processing, embedding, microtomy, H&E staining, special stains, and immunohistochemistry.
- Review H&E-stained slides; assess tissue adequacy, morphology, tumor content, and specimen quality for diagnostic and molecular testing.
- Provide consultation on diagnostic interpretation, specimen triage, tissue handling, fixation, acceptance criteria, test utilization, and reported results.
- Ensure compliance with applicable CLIA, CAP, NY state, and other regulatory requirements.
- Participate in inspections and audits and ensure findings are addressed.
- Oversee testing systems across pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases, including method selection, verification, validation, performance monitoring, and report content.
- Ensure proficiency testing, quality control, quality assessment, and corrective action programs are established, maintained, reviewed, and documented.
- Ensure personnel are appropriately qualified, trained, authorized, and competent, with responsibilities defined in writing and current procedures available.
- Guide and mentor laboratory leaders and staff; delegate qualified responsibilities as appropriate while retaining accountability for their performance.
- Monitor laboratory performance, turnaround time, workflow, budget, safety, environmental conditions, and reference laboratory selection.
- Lead implementation of new technologies and process improvements, collaborate across disciplines, and remain accessible for onsite, telephone, or electronic consultation.
Requirements
- MD, DO, or DPM; licensed to practice in California; and certified in anatomic pathology by the American Board of Pathology or American Osteopathic Board of Pathology.
- Fellowship in Molecular Pathology is required.
- NY Certificate of Qualification in Oncology, Molecular and Cellular Tumor Markers required
- 10+ years of experience in a CAP/CLIA-accredited and/or New York State-licensed clinical laboratory.
- Able to travel to the San Diego office on a quarterly basis to attend business related meetings.
Skills
- Strong clinical judgment
- Commitment to patient-centered laboratory quality
- Skilled at leading, mentoring, and working effectively with pathologists, clinicians, laboratory personnel, and cross-functional partners.
- Able to translate regulatory and quality requirements into clear, practical laboratory practices.
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with applicable accrediting and regulatory agencies, administrative officials, and the medical community.
- Clear communicator
- Analytical
- Improvement-oriented
- Accountable
- Accessible
- Adaptable
Location
- South San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Tuesday-Saturday schedule
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- MD, DO, or DPM
- Certified in anatomic pathology by the American Board of Pathology or American Osteopathic Board of Pathology
- Fellowship in Molecular Pathology
- NY Certificate of Qualification in Oncology, Molecular and Cellular Tumor Markers
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000—$350,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
About the Company
- Veracyte is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world.
- We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer.
- Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development.
- For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).
Equal Opportunity
- Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status.
- Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States.
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