Product Director Lab Systems

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 seeking a Product Director of Lab Systems to lead our lab platform team in developing intuitive integrated products that optimize the entire laboratory workflow ensuring peak efficiency compliance and data integrity.

This role requires a leader who can bridge the gap between "agentic-first" software potential and the practical high-stakes environment of multiple functioning labs. You will own the vision for our systems ensuring they provide real-time actionable insights that scale across a distributed operational footprint. We need a strategic partner and servant leader who can inspire a team of Product Managers to look beyond the "status quo" and build the future of intelligent multi-site lab operations through collaboration and empathy.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Vision & Synthesis: Own the product vision and strategy for our lab platform and products used by people across multiple locations proactively defining a "North Star" rather than reacting to tactical feature requests.

• Agentic Evolution: Serve as the team’s champion for AI fluency—driving the adoption of agentic-first workflows where appropriate in the clinical setting as well as elevating the professional productivity of your product managers.

• Servant Leadership & Coaching: Inspire manage and coach a team of Product Managers to deliver business impact while mentoring them to grow as strategic product leaders.

• Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement: Build deep trust-based relationships with Lab Leadership and operations teams to ensure software evolutions are co-designed and respect the unique physical realities of each lab location.

• Executive Communication: Represent and communicate product vision to the heads of our diagnostics business and other senior executives distilling technical and operational hurdles into clear strategic choices.

• Culture of Excellence: Collaborate with the broader product leadership team to refine our development "playbook" and foster a culture of technical excellence and empathy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical software product management experience in the tech or biotech industry.

• 4+ years of experience managing a team of product managers with a demonstrated ability to lead and coach.

• AI Fluency: Proven experience (or a deeply informed perspective) on leveraging AI/ML and agentic workflows to solve complex operational problems.

• Systems Thinking: Exceptional ability to envision and scale interconnected software ecosystems. You have a proven track record of looking at problems holistically tracing issues back to their root cause and designing solutions that unlock massive efficiency across the whole system.

• Domain Expertise: Extensive history leading the product strategy for high-scale high-complexity enterprise workflow systems (e.g. proprietary LIMS ERP or Asset Management platforms) ideally within a distributed physical and/or regulated environment.

• Exceptional ability to navigate high-ambiguity environments and synthesize a clear high-level product strategy from incomplete or conflicting inputs.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and collaboration winning trust and engagement from diverse teams of biologists medical professionals and engineers.

• Experience working in a regulated environment (e.g. CLIA CAP FDA) and a strong understanding of laboratory workflows.

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Chicago Pay Range: $170000 - $220000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California Colorado 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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