Associate Director, Laboratory Informatics and Platform Automation

Valo Health is a human-centric AI-enabled biotechnology company working to make new drugs for patients faster. The companys Opal Computational Platform transforms drug discovery and development through a unique combination ofreal-world data AI human translational models and predictive chemistry.

Our talented team of biologists chemists and engineers armed with advanced AI/ML tools work together to break down traditional R&D silos and accelerate the speed and scale of drug discovery and development.

Valo is committed to hiring diverse talent prioritizing growth and development fostering an inclusive environment and creating opportunities to bring together a group of different experiences backgrounds and voices to work together. We embrace new ways of learning solve complex problems and welcome diverse perspectives that can help us advance patient-centric innovation.

Valo is headquartered in Lexington MA with additional offices in New York NY and Tel Aviv Israel. To learn more visit.

About the Role...

Valo Health is seeking an Associate Director to lead laboratory informatics and platform automation across its drug discovery organization. The role owns strategy implementation and operational performance across both domains builds the scientific data infrastructure connecting bench data to Valos Opal Computational Platform and leads a technical team. The ideal candidate brings deep domain expertise and a proven track record of people leadership in a fast-paced R&D environment.

What Youll Do

Your primary areas of responsibility will be:

• Own strategy implementation and operations across laboratory informatics systems (LIMS ELN SDMS data analysis tools) and hardware automation platforms (HTS compound management instrument integration).
• Define roadmap priorities with scientific and technical stakeholders; translate needs into actionable plans and deliver reliable solutions.
• Partner with the Data Platform team to build data infrastructure including ontologies pipelines and LIMS integrations; design workflow integrations that streamline operations and enable downstream AI/ML use.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders to guide development across SDMS ELN and visualization tools; oversee user requirement specifications and UAT.
• Implement data security and IP protection standards in partnership with Data Governance teams.
• Oversee data ingestion pipelines and LIMS integrations ensuring integrity compliance and harmonization of legacy and current experimental data.
• Partner with scientific power users and facilities to manage vendor relationships including contract renewals installations application support and user training; oversee resource prioritization cost monitoring and lifecycle planning with contracts finance and IT.
• Serve as the senior point of expertise for informatics and automation building strong relationships across Biology Chemistry DMPK and Data Sciences.
• Monitor operational performance and resolve technical issues across informatics and automation platforms.
• Lead automation platform operations including High-Res Cellario Biosero Green Button Go and compound management; evaluate and drive acquisition of new hardware to meet evolving scientific needs.
• Lead and develop the technical team including hiring mentoring and career development.
• Stay current with emerging trends in informatics and automation and apply new approaches to strengthen platform capabilities.

What You Bring

• PhD with 10 years in laboratory informatics and/or automation in drug discovery or BS/MS with 15 years.
• Life sciences background in Screening Biology Chemistry DMPK multi-omics or NGS.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and deliver high-impact informatics and automation programs in pharma or biotech R&D.
• Experience developing roadmaps translating scientific needs into technical plans and managing competing priorities.
• Experience across the full informatics software lifecycle: requirements gathering design implementation UAT and lifecycle management.
• Deep knowledge of LIMS ELN SDMS and automation systems; experience integrating HTS automation mass spectrometry and compound management with tools such as Dotmatics and Snowflake.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decisions at all levels.
• Proven track record managing complex software infrastructure and vendor interoperability.

You May Also Bring...

• Experience with SaaS platforms cloud services and API integrations.
• Hands-on experience with High-Res Cellario work cells and Biosero Green Button Go workflows.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors including a candidates qualifications skills competencies and experience. Valo Health currently offers healthcare coverage annual incentive program retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Valo Healths good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

Please note: At this time we are only able to consider candidates whocurrentlyhave permanent US work authorization without the need for immediate or future sponsorship.