Job Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit  guardanthealth.com and follow the company on  LinkedIn ,  X (Twitter)and  Facebook .

Job Description

The Pathology Clinical Science Liaison (PCSL), Oncology provides expert scientific and technical support to educate both academic and community pathologists about Guardant Health’s tissue testing solutions. This includes sharing the latest clinical data and helping interpret real-world test results.

The PCSL acts as a bridge between Medical Affairs and the Commercial team, building strong partnerships with local and regional pathology groups. They promote understanding of tissue testing, molecular profiling, and liquid biopsy.

This role plays a key part in improving patient care by being proactive, collaborative, and curious. The PCSL also helps make internal processes in Medical Affairs more efficient.

The position reports to a Field Medical Director. Although remote, it requires frequent travel and the employee should live within 30–45 minutes of a major airport.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical, scientific and technical expertise to ensure professional and credible relationships with key community and academics pathologists to promote understanding and utility of our novel diagnostic technologies
• Be a resource for community pathologists to evaluate and provide guidance on interpretation of real-world patient test reports
• Facilitate educational growth and understanding through the presentation of scientific content to Pathologists and their staff.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with Pathologists to present at scientific forums such as national and regional specialty society meetings, as well as other strategic industry medical needs.
• Facilitate medical and scientific discussions to elicit feedback on current and future products and share with our internal commercial and research divisions.
• Attend regional and national conferences

Qualifications

• Requires a university degree and typically 8 years of related experience; 6 years and a Master’s degree; 3 years and a PhD; or PharmD/MD. Terminal degree in a scientific field of study (Genetic Counselor, NP/PA, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.D. or academic equivalent such as Associate Professor position).
• Experience working with pathologists to build consensus around new products and/or services
• Track record of independent presentation at major academic centers or within the community setting
• Prior experience in the introduction of a novel new clinical product is highly desired

Additional Skills

• Applies advanced knowledge of the biotechnology, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry to advance the medical and scientific objectives our diagnostic company.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point, and other software skills; Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and remotely while maintaining a strong teamwork ethic
• Multi-dimensional in abilities to work on simultaneous tasks, work cross-team and at different levels of the organization, whether internal or external relationships to the organization
• Self-directed, intrinsically motivated, flexible to changes in an ever-changing dynamic environment
• Strong problem-solving skills, good attention to detail, time management skills and personal initiative
• Exceptional human relations skills to coordinate the accomplishment of tasks through other people
• Ability to elicit and answer clinical questions in groups ranging from individuals to larger didactic roundtables and meetings

Work Environment:

• Extensive travel required up to 3-4 days/overnights per week to meet with pathologists, attend education talks and conferences, including specialty society scientific meetings (will require some weekend work). Travel is estimated to be approximately 75%
• Office may be home-based, and involves extensive use of computer and keyboard while in home office

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model : At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,200 to $247,800. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.  The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US locations for the posted role with the exception of any locations specifically referenced below (if any).

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to  [email protected]

A background screening including criminal history is required for this role. GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Local area, Remote work, Work from home, Home office, Flexible hours, Night shift, 3 days per week,

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