Sage Bionetworks

Director

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team focused on applied scientific research, biomedical data stewardship, and community engagement
• Establish scientific direction, data management standards, and community-engagement practices with governance and platform teams
• Ensure Sage’s data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), aligned with GA4GH data-sharing standards, and trusted by the research community
• Serve as a strategic partner to organizational leadership and connect data stewardship and community initiatives to Sage’s broader mission
• Identify opportunities to expand adoption of Sage’s data assets and contribute to platform development priorities
• Represent Sage with data generators, researchers, funders, consortium partners, and other stakeholders
• Communicate the scientific value of managed data, data derivatives, and software platforms while identifying community needs and growth opportunities
• Apply statistical, bioinformatic, and computational biology methods, including exploratory analysis, benchmarking, and tooling, to large-scale multi-omic data
• Oversee curation, organization, annotation, and lifecycle management of biomedical datasets
• Partner with the Privacy and Compliance Office on data governance frameworks and access-control models
• Champion FAIR principles and relevant GA4GH standards, including data-use ontologies, federated data access, and genomic data-sharing frameworks
• Lead harmonization of complex, multi-source biomedical datasets for cross-study and cross-consortium analysis and reuse
• Identify and manage data governance, privacy, and compliance risks
• Build and sustain internal and external researcher communities through engagement programs, meetings, documentation, and outreach
• Coordinate research by external scientists and consortium partners using Sage’s data
• Hire, manage, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary staff
• Ensure effective data operations tools, systems, and practices, including responsible AI-assisted and agentic workflows
• Lead grant proposals and funding strategies
• Establish growth paths and continuously improve data management, governance, and community practices

Associate Director, Computational Biology