Director of the Hartwell Center for Biotechnology Shared Resource (Genomics)

Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Salary: $125,840–$238,160 per year

Company

hirify.global provides scientific facilities, technologies, and research support focused on improving treatment and care for children with catastrophic diseases.

What you will do

• Lead the Hartwell Center for Biotechnology Shared Resource and its 20 multidisciplinary staff members across Illumina, PacBio, genotyping, functional genomics and arrays, RNA, and peptide synthesis.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, laboratory services, workflow efficiency, equipment testing, demonstrations, acquisitions, and long-term technology adoption.
• Advise faculty, investigators, research staff, and trainees on project design, technical requirements, sequencing workflows, and troubleshooting.
• Maintain accuracy, reproducibility, timeliness, quality control, quality assurance, and quality management across laboratory activities.
• Manage staff performance, hiring, mentoring, continuing education, career development, and team engagement.
• Prepare budgets, manage capital resources, oversee chargebacks, and recommend future acquisitions and center growth initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline is required.
• At least 10 years of relevant technical experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8 years with a master’s degree, or 5 years with a PhD.
• Deep expertise in standard and emerging NGS platforms, data-processing pipelines, and genomic library preparation methods.
• Experience with RNA-seq, WGS, WES, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, scRNA-seq, multiomic workflows, alignments, and IGV.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary or mid-to-large teams, managing operations and budgets, and implementing large-scale projects.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, ethical leadership, quality management, organization, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing or integrating new sequencing techniques and building new services or leading major upgrades.
• Participation in the nationwide genomics community and connections with emerging technology communities and expert networks.
• Experience providing technical instruction to students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative bench-to-bedside research environment connecting scientific work with patient outcomes.
• State-of-the-art shared resource facilities spanning approximately 6,500 square feet.
• Access to Illumina NovaSeq X Plus, PacBio Revio, genotyping, microarray, liquid-handling, and peptide-synthesis platforms.
• Full-time employment with benefits available through St. Jude.
• Regular department and institute meetings and retreats to coordinate services and research needs.