Principal Scientist, Director Scientific Affairs

Overview

Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to join a company that invests in its employees? We encourage you to explore this opportunity. We offer career development, internal career coaches, and extensive training opportunities. Our benefits include a variety of HMO and PPO options, a company 401k match with an Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and 16 days of paid time off plus holidays.

We also offer wellness courses and active employee resource groups. Come join Neo Genomics and be part of our World Class Culture.

Neo Genomics is looking for a Principal Scientist, Director of Scientific Affairs who wants to continue learning to help our company grow.

Why work at Neo Genomics: We provide a purpose-driven mission to save lives by improving patient care through the exceptional work you perform, with the goal of becoming the world s leading cancer reference laboratory.

The Principal Scientist, Director of Scientific Affairs, serves as a key scientific leader and subject matter expert within the Pharma Services business unit. This role supports revenue growth by providing technical and scientific leadership across multiple modalities, guiding project specifications and timelines, and ensuring high-quality scientific input for clinical trials, research projects, and client engagements. The Director represents Pharma Services both internally and externally, supporting publications, presentations, and scientific collaborations to strengthen Neo Genomics’ brand and industry visibility.

As a core member of the Scientific Affairs team, the Director contributes to strategic planning, oversees scientific aspects of statements of work and development initiatives, and ensures strong scientific foundations for assays and technologies across Molecular, IHC, Flow Cytometry, Multi Omyx/Multiplex, FISH, and Cytogenetics. This role partners closely with Product Management, Technical Operations, Marketing, Quality, and Regulatory teams, while maintaining deep awareness of the oncology landscape and emerging pharmaceutical trends.

The Director also leads scientific communication through publications, webinars, white papers, and external engagements to support portfolio innovation and scientific leadership.

• Represents Neo Genomics Scientific Affairs at high profile or strategic forums, including sponsor meetings, interactions with vendors and other internal departments, conferences and internal stakeholder meetings
• Evaluates, interprets and understands Clinical Oncology trends in Pharmaceutical Development
• Consistently interacts and supports Commercial teams in developing and presenting project proposals and statements of work for development, validation and clinical study projects
• Supports Business Development Directors in their interactions with clients, providing the scientific support necessary to promote our testing portfolio increasing revenue
• Independently designs new innovations within our modality areas
• Consistently and independently performs the more complex level of procedures and projects
• Provides the leadership on project design and feasibility studies
• Engages in literature reviews to understand trends in Clinical Oncology, writes project/product proposals for sponsors based in a deep scientific understanding of the therapeutic modality, target and indication
• Reviews and evaluates new testing opportunities
• Presents project updates to the management team and clients
• Prepares high quality technical material including papers, client presentations and technical content for marketing materials
• Participates in oral presentations at conferences, symposiums and webinars
• Familiar with CAP/CLIA, IVD, IVDR and other regulatory requirements dictated by regulatory agencies
• Must demonstrate proficiency in all the Core Responsibilities of a Senior Scientist

• Ph.D. in a life, physical, or computer science or M.D. preferred, M.S. in a life, physical or computer science with related experience, or BS in a life or physical sciences with significant supervisory…