Laboratory Director, Pathologist

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

Position Summary: 

As the Laboratory and Medical Director, the employee is responsible for providing effective clinical leadership for the delivery of laboratory services and products.  This position is responsible for clinical oversight of all laboratory operations, including patient care, clinical trial, and clinical research operations, and assuring that such operations are conducted in compliance with the applicable regulations.  This position is central to the development, validation, and operation of Guardant’s multiple products in multiple different locations and regulatory environments and will become even more so as Guardant moves into further in IVD development. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Act as temporary Laboratory Director in his / her absence, and at such time shall fully discharge the onsite duties and responsibilities of the Laboratory Director; 

• Delegate the responsibilities of the Technical Supervisor, General Supervisor, Clinical Consultant, and Testing Personnel to employees who are qualified to perform such duties; 

• Ensure all Clinical Laboratory duties are properly performed; 

• Must be accessible to the Clinical Laboratory to provide onsite, telephone or electronic consultation as needed; 

• Ensure that the testing systems developed and used for each test performed in the laboratory provide quality laboratory services for all aspects of test performance, which includes the pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic phases of testing; 

• Guarantee that the physical and environmental conditions of the Clinical Laboratory are appropriate for the testing performed and provide a safe environment in which employees are protected from physical, chemical and biological hazards; 

• Ensure that test methodologies selected have the capability of providing the quality of results required for patient care; 

• Confirm that verification procedures used are adequate to determine the accuracy, precision, and other pertinent performance characteristics of the method;  

• Verify that laboratory personnel are performing the test methods as required for accurate and reliable results; 

• Ensure that the Clinical Laboratory participates in a suitable accuracy assessment (proficiency testing) program and that: 

• The results are returned within the timeframes established by the proficiency testing program; 

• All proficiency testing reports received are reviewed by the appropriate staff to evaluate the laboratory’s performance and to identify any problems that require corrective action; and 

• An approved corrective action plan is followed when any proficiency testing result is found to be unacceptable or unsatisfactory; 

• Ensure that the quality control and quality assessment programs are established and maintained to assure the quality of Clinical Laboratory services provided to identify failures in quality as they occur; 

• Ensure the establishment and maintenance of acceptable levels of analytical performance for each test system; 

• Ensure that all necessary remedial actions are taken and documented whenever significant deviations from the Clinical Laboratory’s established performance characteristics are identified, and that patient results are reported only when the system is functioning properly; 

• Ensure that reports of test results include pertinent information required for interpretation; 

• Ensure that consultation is available to the Clinical Laboratory’s clients on matters relating to the quality of the test results reporting and their interpretation concerning specific patient conditions; 

• Ensure that a General Supervisor provide on-site supervision of high complexity testing; 

• Ensure that a sufficient number of laboratory personnel are employed with the appropriate education and either experience or training to provide appropriate consul