Director Spatial Biology Division

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide. Pay Range: $ - $

The Director of Applications leads Bio-Techne's Spatial Biology Applications organization, overseeing a team of Applications Scientists responsible for generating the scientific data, application insights, and technical content that demonstrate the value of the company's spatial biology technologies. Reporting to the Vice President of R&D, this role sets the applications strategy and roadmap for the Spatial Biology portfolio, ensuring alignment with customer needs, product priorities, emerging scientific opportunities, and business objectives.

As the leader of the Applications function, the Director partners closely with Product Management, Applications Marketing, Product Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams to translate scientific capabilities into compelling, customer-relevant application stories. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational development, external engagement, and cross-functional influence to drive application innovation, support commercialization efforts, and strengthen Bio-Techne's position as a leader in spatial biology and translational science.

Applications Strategy & Scientific Leadership Define and execute the global applications strategy and roadmap for the Spatial Biology portfolio, ensuring alignment with product strategy, customer needs, emerging scientific trends, and commercial objectives. Identify and prioritize high-value application opportunities that drive technology adoption, portfolio differentiation, and long-term business growth. Guide the development, validation, and expansion of applications supporting RNAscope, Comet, and future spatial biology technologies.

Establish application development priorities and success metrics that maximize scientific and commercial impact. Drive the generation of high-quality application data that demonstrates product performance and supports adoption across key research and translational workflows. Serve as the organization's scientific authority on application development and the use of spatial biology technologies.

Organizational Leadership & Talent Development Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Applications Scientists and scientific leaders across multiple global locations. Build organizational capabilities, succession plans, and talent development strategies that support long-term growth and scalability. Establish clear goals, priorities, and accountability mechanisms to ensure effective execution and continuous improvement. Foster a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, collaboration, and customer focus.

Evaluate organizational structure and resource allocation to support evolving portfolio and business needs.

Cross-Functional Leadership Partner with Product Management to shape application strategies that support product lifecycle planning, roadmap decisions, and portfolio investments. Collaborate with Applications Marketing and Product Marketing to ensure scientific findings are translated into compelling application stories, customer content, and commercialization tools. Work closely with R&D to align application development activities with technology development and product innovation initiatives. Provide scientific and strategic guidance to Commercial teams on customer applications, emerging opportunities, and competitive positioning.

Influence cross-functional decision-making and represent application priorities within portfolio planning and business leadership discussions.

External Scientific Engagement Establish and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders, academic institutions, translational research centers, and strategic partners. Identify and secure access to critical collaborators, specimens, models, and scientific resources that enable application development. Represent Bio-Techne at conferences, scientific meetings, advisory boards, and industry events. Drive publication, presentation, and collaboration strategies that elevate Bio-Techne's scientific visibility and credibility. Build awareness of the value of spatial biology and advocate for emerging applications across the scientific community.

Operational Excellence Establish scalable processes and best practices for application…