Head of Marketing

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

We are looking for a results-oriented high-energy visionary and deeply collaborative Head of Marketing to drive market share turbocharge brand awareness and scale our commercial footprint. Operating within a dynamic fast-paced environment ($1B+ revenue growing 25%+ annually) this leader will possess a rare mix of creative marketing brilliance and the cultural humility required to build immediate followership across a matrixed organization.

Reporting directly to the President you will lead a dedicated team to translate complex clinical technology into clear highly differentiated market positioning. Your primary mandate is to clearly communicate what makes our offering unique and special breaking away from traditional industry definitions and utilizing Tempus’ unique market position. You will sit alongside our upstream product/portfolio leaders and commercial operations team to turn growth strategy into commercial success.

This role owns the commercial messaging and readiness across the product lifecycle guiding the marketing team's input into the concept commercialization and launch of new products as well as assay and technology product enhancements. During the first 30 days of employment the President and this person will create and prioritize a list of initiatives to grow the business.

Responsibilities:

• Differentiated Positioning & Narrative Execution

  • Disruptive Brand Messaging: Own refine and flow the overarching corporate narrative down to your respective marketing teams ensuring the market clearly understands why we are fundamentally different from traditional labs across our oncology hereditary rare disease and algorithmic portfolios.

  • Value Proposition Clarity: Create unique highly differentiated product positioning that makes it incredibly easy for clinicians and customers to understand our special value proposition with a particular opportunity to deliver on Tempus’ 1-of-1 AI capabilities

  • Campaign & Content Creation: Drive the end-to-end development of all downstream marketing assets including comprehensive sales materials high-impact social media content and digital programs designed to capture market share.

• High-Velocity Cross-Functional Enablement

  • Upstream Synergy: Work closely with and provide direct collaborative support to the Upstream Marketing/Product Strategy leaders seamlessly turning product roadmaps into commercial launch realities.

  • Commercial Lockstep: Partner deeply with Sales Learning & Development (L&D) and Commercial Operations to ensure the field organization is fully equipped highly trained and executing on aligned messaging.

  • Multidisciplinary Integration: Actively integrate cross-functional discussions and synthesize critical inputs from R&D Technology and Medical/Clinical Development to keep downstream messaging scientifically accurate and ahead of market trends.

• Campaign Performance & Team Leadership

  • Commercial Acceleration: Synthesize customer insights and competitive dynamics to execute targeted agile marketing strategies that accelerate adoption of our diagnostic applications.

  • Team Empowerment: Lead mentor and scale a high-performing downstream marketing organization cultivating a culture of speed accountability and execution excellence.

  • Agile Execution: Rapidly deploy test and optimize marketing programs navigating a fast-moving startup-like environment with ease and poise.

Leadership Profile: "How You Win"

• Followership Over Mandate: You have the organic authority and humility to listen deeply collaborate cross-functionally and rally multiple departments behind a unified marketing vision.

• Grit & Adaptability: You thrive in high-growth ambiguity. You are secure enough to roll up your sleeves pivot when data dictates and run hard toward aggressive commercial goals.

• Low Ego High Impact: You view marketing as a team sport working seamlessly with technical medical and sales peers without needing to own the entire upstream architecture.

Required Education & Experience: 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; a postgraduate qualification (e.g. MBA MS Ph.D.) is a distinct advantage.

• Downstream Track Record: 10+ years of direct marketing experience in a highly regulated part of healthcare or life sciences with an emphasis on commercialization brand building and downstream execution.

• Leadership Weight: 8+ years of experience leading marketing functions and 8+ years of direct people management experience.

• Domain Context: Commercial marketing experience in oncology advanced diagnostics or related segments with clinician- and industry-facing (pharma + non-pharma) products

• Commercial Acumen: Robust business acumen with a proven track record of translating complex clinical data into actionable field-ready commercial campaigns.

• Modern Marketing Toolset: An AI-first mindset with practical familiarity utilizing or operationalizing digital tools and modern marketing workflows to enhance the customer experience.

• Growth Resiliency: An entrepreneurial mindset characterized by exceptional grit collaborative listening skills and comfort working at a 25%+ annual growth pace.

Pay Range: $185000–$320000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from California and may vary for other locations (Colorado Illinois New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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