Onsite Senior Manager – Spatial Biology

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading large format spatial biology research at the Allen Institute. Collaborating with teams to develop imaging solutions for understanding human brain health and disease.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement and maintain custom and commercially-available solutions to assess gene expression in large format tissue sections, especially but not limited to human brain
  • Daily, direct supervision and management of a team responsible for generating high quality spatial transcriptomic data and/or building the processes for data acquisition, quality control and transfer to the cloud
  • Participate in complex, multi-team collaborative projects on human brain healthy and diseased brain spatial analyses
  • Manage a high throughput core, including day-to-day operations, staffing, scheduling, budgeting, and financial governance
  • Seek and evaluate new cutting-edge techniques in related areas
  • Participate in new technology development efforts
  • Support and drive multiple projects in parallel, focusing on both exploratory technology development projects as well as large scale data generation for established projects and collaborations with the scientific community
  • Collaborate across teams within the Allen Institute to ensure accuracy and efficiency in the relevant data generation pipelines, including advising teams on upstream specimen generation, handling and processing, and downstream data analysis
  • Present at internal scientific meetings and scientific conferences
  • Contribute to manuscripts and grant applications

Requirements

  • Ph.D. or equivalent in neuroscience or life sciences
  • Minimum of 8 years of related work experience and/or training
  • Deep knowledge of spatial transcriptomics and related methods to quantify gene expression in situ
  • Expertise in large format imaging and microscopy, fluidics and sample handling necessary to scale technology platforms to handle high throughput data generation pipelines
  • Excellent judgement and problem-solving skills
  • Strong technical ability to work across multiple software tools to ensure that data is processed and tracked in an accurate and transparent manner.

Benefits

  • Employees (and their families) are eligible to enroll in benefits per eligibility rules outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide.
  • These benefits include medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
  • Employees are also eligible to enroll in the Allen Institutes 401k plan.
  • Paid time off is also available as outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide.

Job title

Senior Manager – Spatial Biology

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$156,850 - $196,050 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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