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Senior Field Application Scientist - Pacific Northwest
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- 20H AGO
About the role
At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Field Applications Scientist who will play a pivotal role supporting our growing customer base in the Pacific Northwest Region. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who is passionate about seeing customer success and winning for the company. We are looking for a candidate with a solid background in NGS sample and library prep workflows as well as cell biology. The hired candidate will need to be physically located in the territory and be willing to travel frequently to customer sites. This role will report to the Director, Global Field Applications, and will be a remote role supporting our Pacific Northwest customers.
If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Frequently traveling to the customer site is required
- Troubleshooting issues related to user's technical skills, biochemistry/assay design, experimental design, software, and instruments
- Supporting commercial team and customers in their technical applications and providing product training
- Displaying professionalism, understanding, tact, fairness, and technical knowledge in all customer interactions
- Providing strategic and competitive feedback to marketing and product development teams, and independently leads or manages beta tests at customer sites
- Working independently on significant and unique issues requiring collaboration with key decision-makers and senior managers across the organization which may impact future products, concepts, and technologies
- Assisting sales and marketing on pre and post strategic sales activities requiring both technical depth and market knowledge
- Delivering customer training and workshops, both in-person and remote
- Utilizing service CRM software to accurately identify and document customer opportunities
- Collaborating with internal partners to resolve customer issues and improve processes
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree with 6+ years, Masters degree with 4+ years or PhD with 2+ years in NGS library construction (a combination of experience and education may be considered)
- Experience with NGS sequencing instrument and sequencing run set up along with NGS sample and library prep workflows is preferred
- Experience with cell biology, microscopy, and multiomics is preferred
- Must be highly motivated and have strong problem-solving ability
- Excellent communication and strong relationship building skills
- Highly collaborative and adaptable; able to work well within multidisciplinary teams
- Skilled in nucleic acids and protein analytical methods
- Generate high quality and reproducible wet-lab data from established protocols
- High degree of comfort navigating technical project discussions
- Must be able to work independently and as a team player
- Demonstrated account management skills
Physical Requirements:
- Frequently moves boxes weighing up to 20 pounds
- Must be flexible in working hours as this position may require customer support during non-regular business hours
Location:
- Remote – Pacific Northwest
Travel:
- Domestic travel up to 80%
Job Type:
- Full-time/Exempt
Base Compensation Pay Range:
- $102,000 - $125,000
In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, sales commission, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off.
Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience.
We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
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