At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions.
Our Values:
- We Seek A Better Way: We pursue bold ideas, embrace complexity, and keep pushing forward.
- We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, deliver with excellence, and always find a way.
- We Are Stronger Together: We engage with empathy, align around what's best for Veracyte, and celebrate as one team.
- We Care Deeply: We show up with integrity, kindness, and respect for one another.
As the Manager, LIMS, you will lead the administration, enhancement, and operational excellence of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) ecosystem that supports regulated clinical laboratory operations. Partnering closely with Laboratory Operations, Engineering, Quality, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will ensure laboratory systems remain reliable, compliant, scalable, and aligned with evolving business needs.
This role combines people leadership, technical expertise, and operational focus to support diagnostic testing, drive continuous improvement, and enable future growth. You will help build solutions that improve laboratory efficiency while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, quality, and accountability consistent with Veracyte's values.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for LIMS administration, support, configuration, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with laboratory and business stakeholders to understand operational needs and translate requirements into effective system solutions.
- Ensure LIMS platforms and associated processes comply with applicable regulatory, quality, privacy, and data integrity requirements.
- Oversee system configuration, validation, implementation, release management, and ongoing maintenance activities.
- Establish and maintain system governance, documentation, audit readiness, and change control processes.
- Lead investigation and resolution of complex system issues, implementing sustainable corrective actions when appropriate.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and Quality to maintain validated and secure environments.
- Drive process improvement and automation initiatives that enhance laboratory efficiency, quality, and scalability.
- Manage vendors, support partners, and technology relationships to ensure effective service delivery.
- Lead projects involving system enhancements, integrations, upgrades, and new capabilities.
- Ensure successful integration of LIMS with laboratory instruments, laboratory workflows, and other business-critical systems.
- Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience supporting, administering, implementing, or managing LIMS platforms in regulated laboratory environments.
- 3+ years of experience leading and developing technical or business systems teams.
- Experience leading LIMS implementations, upgrades, integrations, or significant enhancement projects.
- Strong understanding of laboratory operations, sample lifecycle management, and laboratory data processes.
- Experience working within regulated environments, including system validation and change control practices.
- Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong project management, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a scientific, technical, or business-related discipline.
- Experience supporting molecular diagnostics, genomics, oncology testing, LDT, or IVD environments.
- Experience with commercial or custom LIMS platforms and laboratory ecosystem applications.
- Experience with Labbit or other laboratory workflow and sample management platforms is highly valued.
- Experience integrating laboratory systems, instruments, cloud-based platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Familiarity with laboratory automation and digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience supporting multi-site laboratory operations in a growing organization.
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For candidates based in our San Diego office, the range is $145,000 - $169,000.
For candidates based in our South San Francisco office, the range is $169,000- $181,000.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience, skillset, geographic location, industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
What We Can Offer You
Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.
About Veracyte
Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).
Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our CCPA Disclosure Notice
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