Director, Field Translational Science — Oncology

Director, Field Translational Science Oncology

Position Summary

Natera is shifting disease management worldwide through unprecedented molecular innovation. As the Regional Director of Field Translational Science, you will build, scale, and lead a specialized team of field-facing translational scientists within our Oncology Business Unit. This high-autonomy leadership role is designed for a strategic builder who can run a sophisticated regional team while serving as the executive authority for advanced Natera tests - including, but not limited to, cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and minimal residual disease (MRD) assays - and their associated data analysis frameworks across elite academic medical centers.

This position requires up to 50-70% regional travel to engage with institutional leadership and audit high-priority research partnerships. You will eliminate the standard boundaries between field data generation and internal pipeline design. Distinct from traditional, education-focused Medical Affairs teams (MSLs), your organization owns the structural integrity, statistical validation, and scientific output of investigator-led data collaborations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Scale: Hire, develop, and manage a premier field organization of translational scientists, establishing clear performance metrics tied to regional data velocity, scientific rigor, and publication quality.
• Strategic Data Architecture: Author and execute the regional data engagement strategy, guiding how field scientists partner with oncologists, pathologists, and biometricians to unlock complex ctDNA and real-world datasets; holds the institutional/enterprise escalation line for the direct day-to-day communication line with the clinicians.
• Regional Operations & Systems Governance: Oversee the secure regional tracking architecture and data ingestion pipelines that individual Field Translational Scientists operate within; ensure absolute data compliance, system integrity, and streamlined data flow from investigator sites into internal analysis platforms.
• Cross-Functional Governance: Command the interface between field operations and internal Oncology Translational Medicine & Scientific Communications, Medical Affairs, Life Cycle, R&D and Product Development leadership, translating field-derived real-world evidence into high-impact pipeline recommendations.
• Investigator-Led Portfolio Management: In partnership with MSLs, oversee the lifecycle of all regional investigator-initiated trials (IITs) and institutional registries, ensuring team members enable investigators to maximize the utility of Nateras proprietary analytical tools and data visualization platforms to achieve statistical robustness and prompt manuscript generation.
• Institutional Network Expansion: Secure, scale, and manage institutional >www.natera.com.

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