Director, Omics Enabling Platforms

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Biological Research

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for Director, Omics Enabling Platforms in Spring House, PA.

Purpose: We are seeking a strategic, hands-on leader to build and direct an Omics Enabling organization that integrates omics with automation, robotics, and agentic AI into a unified engine for AI-Native Drug Discovery.

The Director will own end-to-end omics capabilities including transcriptomics (bulk & single-cell) delivered through highly automated, robotics-driven workflows that generate robust, scalable, high-dimensional data at speed.

The successful candidate pairs deep expertise in omics technologies with a strong foundation in molecular and cellular biology, enabling interpretation of complex omics datasets and translation of high-dimensional data into biological insights to enable portfolio program decisions.

The role combines support for discovery programs with development of reusable, automated experimentation platforms that accelerate learning cycles and generate AI-ready biological data.

You will be responsible for:


* Own development, optimization, and scaling of discovery-focused assays with a transcriptomics core: bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, WGS/WES and long-read sequencing.



* Ensure all assays are automation-ready, reproducible, and standardized for large-scale, perturbational biology.



* Generate high-quality, high-dimensional datasets suitable for actionable insights, machine learning and foundation model training.



* Drive biological int...