SEARCHCardioDx® is a dynamic, fast-moving organization. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we work in an evolving and exciting environment focused on serving cardiologists and primary care clinicians by offering clinically validated, actionable genomic tests to improve patient care.
We are strategically focused on developing genomic tests for three forms of cardiovascular disease: coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure. As a growing company, we are looking for talented professionals. We offer opportunities that allow our team members to grow professionally and contribute to advances in medicine while working with other committed, driven, and focused professionals.
Benefits and compensation are industry competitive and commensurate with experience. They include 401(k) and health, dental, and disability insurance. CardioDx is a diverse and flexible work environment, providing our team members with the tools, leadership, and support that they need to deliver the best results possible.
Following is a list of our currently open positions. To apply for one of these positions, please send a statement of interest and resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Associate Director, Medical Affairs (Outcomes Research)Director / Senior Director of Biostatistics and Quantitative Analysis
Manager, National Managed Care Accounts
Program Manager, Managed Care Marketing
Software Developer
Systems Administrator
Vice President, Business Development
Associate Director, Medical Affairs (Outcomes Research)
Job Description
The position will be primarily responsible for design, conduct, and maintenance of the CardioDx clinical registry. This position will be involved in the design and conduct of ongoing and future clinical and epidemiological studies as well as manuscript preparation for these activities. This position will provide a clinical perspective to cross-functional teams, including Research and Development, Clinical Operations, Marketing, Commercial Lab, and Customer Service. This position is expected to work with minimal supervision and to react quickly and professionally to changes in business priorities. This position will report to the Chief Medical Officer.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the establishing, implementing and maintaining of the commercial registry
- Provide deep epidemiological oversight to existing and planned clinical trials and pharmacoeconomic analyses
- Lead the manuscript development effort and coordinate internal and external resources and contributions
- Serve as clinical trial liaison to other CardioDx departments
- Provide input into any US and OUS regulatory submissions
- Ensure all product literature and promotional material meets applicable clinical requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Advanced technical degree or MPH required. RN, Pharm.D or MD preferred
- 5-8 years of experience beyond training, with a combination of academic and/or industry experience in pharmaceutical, device, or genomics industries in the areas of outcomes research and patient registry management
Director / Senior Director of Biostatistics and Quantitative Analysis
Job Description
Overall responsibility for all biostatistical/clinical analysis, statistical model development, and process development for the company’s products. Management of an internal group of employees with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, biochemistry/biophysics, and related disciplines, as well as external consultants. Decision maker on statistical evaluation of clinical trials protocols and will play a key role in this area in interactions with regulatory agencies. Involved in the development of new in silico methods of gene and genetic discovery for molecular diagnostics. Key interactions with bioinformatics/software development, clinical laboratory, research, process development/automation and clinical groups.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have a PhD in statistics, biochemistry/biophysics, informatics (chemical or biological), or a related field and at least 10 years experience working in the pharma/biopharma, molecular diagnostics, or academic arenas. Experience in working in and/or leading multidisciplinary teams, composed of molecular biologists/bioinformaticians, process development and automation scientists, clinicians, and software developers is key as are excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Interest in underlying biology a plus. Experience with the analysis of large datasets is required; the ability to program in a variety of computer languages (R, SAS, others) is necessary.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Analysis of clinical trial data
- Analysis of genomic and genetic studies, including next generation sequencing data sets
- Analysis of process development/automation studies
- Lead statistical model development for new products
- Report to senior management on statistical and model development issues
- Responsible for department budget and goals
- Responsible for working with the clinical laboratory and process development/automation groups to development appropriate QC metrics
- Responsible for the statistical support for the CardioDx commercial laboratory
- Responsible for working with the clinical group on clinical study design
- Responsible for working with research group of design of discovery experiments and evaluation of new technologies
- Develop requirements for algorithm section of LIMS under design control
- Responsible for the statistical aspects for design control documentation
Manager, National Managed Care Accounts
Job Description
The Manager of National Accounts is responsible securing favorable medical coverage policies for our diagnostic tests, ensuring CardioDx is considered an in-network provider and negotiating contracted managed care pricing that supports corporate and territory goals.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Works with the Managed Care Marketing team to identify target payers and to develop strategic and tactical managed care business plans to enable patient and provider access to CardioDx diagnostic tests.
- The role will also work closely with the clinician sales team to ensure payer targets are aligned with key sales targets across territories.
- Establish and expand upon relationships with key stakeholders within national target payers at the executive, departmental and operational level. Key payer targets will include CMOs, Medical Directors, Care Management teams, Utilization Management teams, Network Management Contracting executives and others.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of the national Managed Care business as it relates the cardiovascular marketplace.
- The position requires the skills to deal with the concepts and complexities associates with the cardiology disease states associated with our diagnostic products.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts or Sciences required, Master of Business Administration or Health Administration a plus
- 3 or more years working national accounts and contracting in managed care payers of all types of segments
- 3-5 years managed care contracting experience in the health care industry
- Established relationships with key managed care decision makers (both national and local) and related influence groups
- Strong communicator, both verbally and orally, with ability to maintain open communication with internal employees, managers and customers
- Ability to prioritize and drive to results with a high emphasis on quality, innovation and maintaining corporate ethical standards
- Able to demonstrate contract value to internal and external stakeholders
Travel and Work Environment:
- Greater than 50% travel
- Maintain an “in home” office
- Organize meetings with key payer stakeholders and clinical liaisons, both internal and external
- Partner with field sales to drive grassroots product support and initiatives
Program Manager, Managed Care Marketing
Job Description:
- Support product reimbursement strategy and payer relations/managed care sales through creation of sales tools, integration of internal/external clinical and economic data, healthcare economic value propositions, and related materials
- Development and oversight of payer dossiers including synthesis of clinical and economic data, honing payer value messages, creation of technical writing content, layout and design
- Conversion of economic analysis and supporting cost models into payer relations tools for use in discussions with commercial payer medical directors
- Private payer market research including coordination of consultants, payer roundtables/ad boards, synthesis of data and summarizing results for internal and external use
- Development of payer messaging and payer communication plans and coordination with product marketing and public relations
- Development of product sales team training materials to support reimbursement and managed care initiatives in the sales territories
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree in Public Health, Public Policy, or Economics strongly preferred
- Minimum of 2 years reimbursement experience focusing on reimbursement/managed care team support, health economics, reimbursement strategy or health policy for a provider, insurance company, pharmaceutical company, device company or laboratory
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills are essential and the highest level of integrity is required
- Possesses drive, enthusiasm, and strong project management skills that excel in a dynamic, cross-functional team setting
Software Developer
Job Description
We are looking for a self-motivated team player with a strong interest in the Sciences and specifically in biotechnology. This individual will have the opportunity to work on the entire software development pipeline from requirements gathering, documentation, to development and validation. This person will also work and interact with a variety of departments ranging from R&D to Quality Assurance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and improve components our in house CLIA Laboratory Information Management System. Work with various departments to deploy, test, and validate our LIMS system.
- Provide programming support to R&D and Clinical Laboratory Scientists and aid their development effort by developing scientific software, databases, and reporting systems.
- Provide software development support to our business and commercial operations departments.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Biology degree with least 2 years of programming experience
- Proficiency in at least one of the following languages – Ruby/Rails, Perl, or Java
- Solid SQL and PL/SQL programming skills
- Solid understanding of relational database design and object oriented programming concepts
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team oriented environment
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, customer service skills
- Must be motivated, resourceful and creative, and excited to work hard in a fast-paced environment
Systems Administrator
Job Description
The IT department at CardioDx is looking for a system administrator to manage desktop and server systems in a technically diverse environment. We run a mix of Linux, Windows and Mac OS desktops in front of Linux servers. Our group also manages a VOIP system that management and marketing can't live without, a commercial laboratory system that our scientists depend on every day, and portable connectivity infrastructure that our sales and marketing team rely on when they're on the road. We need people who can provide world-class service to all of these groups across all of these systems.
Responsibilities:
- Keep IT systems up and running 24/7
- Install and configure Linux, Windows & Mac front-end and back-end systems
- Maintain company network equipment (firewalls, switches, routers, etc.)
- Manage VoIP devices and phone system
- Perform backup & recovery
- Design & implement software to enhance IT systems
- Resolve O/S, application, network & printing issues
- Provide desktop support
Required Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration
- Experience managing Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 2008 systems
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and security
- Fluent in at least one programming language (bash, Perl, Ruby, Java, C, C++)
- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Good team player
Preferred Skills:
- B.S. in Computer Science or Information Systems
- 2+ years of system administration experience
- 1+ years of programming experience
Vice President, Business Development
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced business development professional to join our rapidly growing, pre-IPO company. Reporting directly to and partnering with the CFO, the Vice President, Business Development is responsible for the overall management of the Company’s business development efforts. The role requires an individual who can identify potential deals and develop the tactics and teams needed to bring them to fruition. This is a unique opportunity to join a team of highly committed professionals and an organization that is committed to leveraging business development to advance the company’s strategic objectives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key member of the team that sets the company’s strategic direction
- Establish the company's business development strategy in light of the company's overall strategic direction
- Identify and spearhead multiple business development initiatives that are consistent with the business development strategy
- Lead efforts to generate ideas and potential opportunities, initiate and manage discussions, and negotiate and consummate transactions
- Achieve revenue, cost sharing and/or strategic capital investment objectives
- Manage complex contract negotiation and work with legal counsel, finance and line management as required
- Integrate and manage strategic partnerships
- Evaluate and monitor competitive landscape
- Serve as the initial face of the organization for multiple business development opportunities
Education/Experience Requirements:
- 8-10 years plus of business development experience and 15 years of combined business development, strategic consulting, investment banking, marketing, and/or sales experience
- A solid understanding of Company’s market: products, players, technologies, and contacts in related markets
- Diagnostics, medical device and/or biotech experience required
- A Bachelor’s degree is required, with an MBA or JD preferred
Other Qualifications:
- Ability to work in a demanding and intellectually challenging environment, and enjoy direct interaction and collaboration with senior management
- Role requires strong leadership, management, technical, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and process-orientation skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral; ability to interact comfortably with all levels of the organization
- Positive work ethic and dedication to improving professional service to all of the company’s constituents