Director, Clinical Science and Biopharma Products

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012 Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care including screening to find cancer early monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information visitand follow the company onLinkedInX (Twitter)andFacebook.

About the Product Department

Our Oncology Product team is responsible for the strategy and lifecycle management of our oncology portfolio and is comprised of two core areas:

• Assay Products: Liquid and tissue-based diagnostics for therapy selection and disease monitoring
• Digital Products: External-facing digital/data solutions and internal infrastructure supporting clinical and commercial operations
  

The Director of Clinical Science and Biopharma Products at Guardant Health is a leadership role within the Product team reporting to our Senior Director of Product Management. This position is ideal for a leader with strong experience in clinical science and biopharma diagnostics product development. We are seeking candidates with a breadth and depth of knowledge to include: clinical science and research biopharma diagnostics product needs and a solid understanding of the practice of oncology (including areas for new technological development).

This Director will partner with our product directors who lead the oncology portfolio to ensure biopharma needs are incorporated into portfolio strategy roadmap planning and commercialization. The role will help shape how Guardants advanced diagnostics solutions support biomarker-driven research and drug development programswhile maintaining alignment with real-world clinical workflows and market needs.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio partnership: Provide clinical science leadership across all diagnostics products collaborate with oncology portfolio product directors to incorporate biopharma requirements into product strategy prioritization and roadmap planning across monitoring and treatment selection products.
• Clinical workflow integration: Ensure products across the Guardant portfolio fit real-world oncology practice and operational workflows to support adoption and consistent use.
• Biopharma collaboration: Partner with biopharma stakeholders to align diagnostic and RUO/IUO solutions with biomarker-driven trials translational research objectives and precision medicine programs.
• RUO/IUO product support: Drive strategy and execution for RUO/IUO offerings ensuring scientific relevance usability for research settings and alignment with evolving biopharma needs.
• Executive Presence: Lead strategic discussions with senior diagnostic and Biopharma stakeholders and oncologists/healthcare providers.
• Product lifecycle leadership: Lead end-to-end execution from concept through development launch and lifecycle expansion in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Commercial readiness: Support launch planning sales enablement and field training with clear messaging and differentiated value propositions for biopharma and healthcare stakeholders.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with R&D regulatory medical/scientific affairs and commercial teams to deliver strategic goals.
• Competitive intelligence: Monitor diagnostic RUO/IUO and research trends regulatory developments and competitor activity to inform differentiation and planning.
• External engagement: Represent Guardant with researchers oncologists healthcare systems payers and biopharma partners to identify unmet needs and refine strategy.
• Scientific leadership: Contribute to scientific communications and conference support to reinforce Guardants leadership in oncology diagnostics and research solutions.
• Accountability: Biopharma portfolio performance adoption strategic partnerships and shaping long-term biopharma investment priorities in collaboration with executive leadership.

Qualifications

Required

• Education: Typically requires a Bachelors degree and 15 years of related experience or 12 years with a Masters degree 8 years with a PhD or 5 years and a PharmD/MD.
• Experience: 8 years in clinical science medical affairs diagnostics product management product strategy or commercialization in oncology diagnostics precision medicine or health technology including prior biopharma experience.
• Demonstrated experience with clinical science and knowledge of clinical practice.

Preferred

• An MD/PhD is desirable
• Science & research strength: Strong grounding in molecular oncology biomarkers and translational research with the ability to engage credibly with scientific and research stakeholders.
• Oncology & diagnostics expertise: Strong understanding of molecular diagnostics clinical science and precision medicine applications.
• Commercial success: Demonstrated success launching and scaling diagnostics or research products.
• Leadership: Strategic thinker with strong execution rigor cross-functional influence and ability to align scientific product and commercial teams.
  

Hybrid Work Model: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.