Bioinformatics Team Manager
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Bioinformatics Team Manager leading a senior team at DNAstack to shape bioinformatics function. Collaborating with product and engineering leadership to define the bioinformatics roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a small, senior team with a genuine commitment to individual growth - including regular development conversations, clear feedback, and helping people build careers.
- Collaboratively shape the future of the function at DNAstack
- Define and communicate the bioinformatics roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership, ensuring work is impactful and aligned with company priorities.
- Build and maintain credibility with senior leadership by proactively communicating the function's direction, surfacing risks and tradeoffs clearly, and making the case for staffing and investment with evidence
- Improve how bioinformatics projects are prioritized, scoped, tracked, and documented to promote sustainability and transparency.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design to deliver integrated, user-facing solutions informed by bioinformatics insights.
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and scaling the team as the company grows.
- Stay current on industry tools, standards, and datasets, bringing best practices into the team.
Requirements:
- 3+ years managing technical teams, including the harder parts: career development conversations, navigating team dynamics, and holding people accountable while genuinely supporting their growth
- Ability to communicate bioinformatics priorities and constraints to technical and non-technical senior leadership and build trust through transparency and follow-through
- Strong understanding of genomics and bioinformatics, with the ability to engage in scientific discussions and shape technical direction.
- Experience with core bioinformatics tools and data types (e.g., BAM, VCF, FASTQ; samtools, bcftools, etc.) and pipeline frameworks (WDL, Nextflow, Snakemake, CWL).
- Knowledge of programming/scripting frameworks (Python, R, or similar), with enough depth to review work, guide decisions, and support debugging.
- Familiarity with cloud and/or HPC computing environments and reproducibility best practices.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to help prioritize work, scope new projects, and connect technical decisions to product and scientific goals
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in bioinformatics, with demonstrated expertise in NGS data analysis and production-scale pipelines
- Graduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in bioinformatics, computational biology, genetics, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits:
- Remote friendly, with flexible hours and the opportunity to work on-site at our Toronto office
- Comprehensive health benefits: medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Three weeks vacation
- Unlimited sick days
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
- One-time remote office set-up stipend
- Career development and learning support
- Opportunity to participate in DNAstack's Employee Stock Option Program
- Opportunity to contribute to open science and global data-sharing efforts
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