Location: Remote with ~40% domestic and international travel Shape the future of cancer care as a Medical Director, Skin/IO at Natera. In this strategic leadership role, you will provide medical expertise and scientific leadership across Natera’s oncology portfolio, with a focus on melanoma, cutaneous malignancies, and immunotherapy applications across solid tumors. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams in research, development, medical affairs, and commercial functions to ensure the scientific integrity and clinical adoption of Natera’s oncology testing solutions. Primary Responsibilities: Clinical Adoption: Lead the clinical strategy and evidence generation for melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancers, and pan-tumor immunotherapy indications. Partner closely with clinical development, medical affairs, and commercial teams to translate emerging evidence into meaningful clinical practice applications. Collaborate with key opinion leaders (KOLs), cooperative groups, and academic investigators to validate and expand clinical use cases for ctDNA-based diagnostics in immuno-oncology. Provide field-facing education and strategic guidance to healthcare providers, payers, and advocacy organizations on clinical utility, interpretation, and impact of MRD and response monitoring in immune-treated populations. Identify and address barriers to adoption by aligning evidence generation, messaging, and stakeholder engagement with evolving standards of care and health system needs. Medical Education and Communication: Serve as the medical and scientific spokesperson for skin and immuno-oncology programs, communicating clinical utility, study data, and product value to external experts and stakeholders. Partner with commercial teams to develop educational resources, medical content, and scientific training for healthcare providers and internal teams. Provide scientific leadership during advisory boards, symposia, and investigator meetings. Representation and Advocacy: Re
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Director, Field Translational Science — Oncology Position Summary Natera is shifting disease management worldwide through unprecedented molecular innovation. As the Director of Field Translational Science, you will build, scale, and lead a specialized team of field-facing translational scientists within our Oncology Business Unit. This high-autonomy leadership role is designed for a strategic builder who can run a sophisticated regional team while serving as the executive authority for advanced Natera tests - including, but not limited to, cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and minimal residual disease (MRD) assays - and their associated data analysis frameworks across elite academic medical centers. This position requires up to 50-70% regional travel to engage with institutional leadership and audit high-priority research partnerships. You will eliminate the standard boundaries between field data
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focused Medical Affairs teams (MSLs), your organization owns the structural integrity, statistical validation, and scientific output of investigator-led data collaborations. Primary Responsibilities Team Leadership & Scale: Hire, develop, and manage a premier field organization of translational scientists, establishing clear performance metrics tied to regional data velocity, scientific rigor, and publication quality. Strategic Data Architecture: Author and execute the regional data engagement strategy, guiding how field scientists partner with oncologists, pathologists, and biometricians to unlock complex ctDNA and real-world datasets; holds the institutional/enterprise escalation line for the direct day-to-day communication line with the clinicians. Regional Operations & Systems Governance: Oversee the secure regional tracking architecture and data ingestion pipelines that individual Field Translational Scientists operate within; ensure absolute data compliance, system integrity, and streamlined data flow from investigator sites into internal analysis platforms. Cross-Functional Governance: Command the interface between field operations and internal Oncology Translational Medicin
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Dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Natera’s cell-free DNA tests help protect health and inform more personalized decisions about care.
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