Associate Director, Laboratory Informatics and Platform Automation

PhD with 10+ years in laboratory informatics and/or automation in drug discovery, or BS/MS with 15+ years.

Life sciences background in Screening, Biology, Chemistry, DMPK, multi-omics, or NGS.

Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and deliver high-impact informatics and automation programs in pharma or biotech R&D.

Experience developing roadmaps, translating scientific needs into technical plans, and managing competing priorities.

Experience across the full informatics software lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, implementation, UAT, and lifecycle management.

Deep knowledge of LIMS, ELN, SDMS, and automation systems; experience integrating HTS automation, mass spectrometry, and compound management with tools such as Dotmatics and Snowflake.

Valo Health is seeking an Associate Director to lead laboratory informatics and platform automation across its drug discovery organization.

The role owns strategy, implementation, and operational performance across both domains, builds the scientific data infrastructure connecting bench data to Valo’s Opal Computational Platform, and leads a technical team.

Own strategy, implementation, and operations across laboratory informatics systems (LIMS, ELN, SDMS, data analysis tools) and hardware automation platforms (HTS, compound management, instrument integration).

Define roadmap priorities with scientific and technical stakeholders; translate needs into actionable plans and deliver reliable solutions.

Partner with the Data Platform team to build data infrastructure, including ontologies, pipelines, and LIMS integrations; design workflow integrations that streamline operations and enable downstream AI/ML use.

Gather requirements from stakeholders to guide development across SDMS, ELN, and visualization tools; oversee user requirement specifications and UAT.