Meeting/Event Director directs the overall planning and strategy for live or virtual meetings and events for an organization. Defines the goals, success metrics, and messaging for events. Being a Meeting/Event Director implements best practices and develops planning standards, policies. and procedures. Additionally, Meeting/Event Director develops a network of vendors. Approves the final selection of venues, catering, technology, and other event support services. Reviews and approves contracts and has overall responsibility for ensuring events stay within budget. Typically requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. The Meeting/Event Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Meeting/Event Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Alida Biosciences is an early-stage, VC backed startup company in San Diego focused on developing novel analysis tools for the detection of epigenomic markers. The company’s mission is advancing the general understanding of gene regulation, discovering epigenetic drug targets and enabling next-gen RNA-based therapies.
Alida Biosciences is seeking a talented computational scientist with leadership ambition to join our team in its mission to transform omics with next-generation technologies. This position is ideal for a mid-level scientist who wants to contribute technically while growing their people and project leadership skills.
As an early-stage company, we offer exceptional opportunities for our employees to engage in project management, cross-functional roles, grow with the company, build new technologies, and launch innovative products.
● Developing algorithms to advance the analysis of novel forms of genomic data
● Creating computational pipeline components, workflows, and infrastructure to facilitate data analysis and interpretation
● Evaluating algorithm performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
● Analyzing experimental data and creating actionable insights and data visualizations
● Lead a small to mid-sized team of computational scientists
● PhD in Computer Science, Computational Biology or related discipline with 8 years of industry experience
● Understanding of NGS technology and assay development
● Familiarity with standard bioinformatics data formats and command-line tools (such as samtools, bedtools, bcftools, seqtk) and pipeline frameworks (Nextflow, snakemake, Cromwell)
● Experience writing software in Python (including numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scipy, scikit-learn, pysam) as well as experience using a strongly typed language (e.g., C , Java, Rust, etc.)
● Strong background in quantitative reasoning, probability, and statistical inference
● Familiarity with statistical principles of experimental design
● Experience creating algorithms and developing computational models
● Experience with software development and testing, including version control (e.g., git), unit testing and continuous integration
● Experience analyzing complex experimental data and visualizing and presenting results
● Experience with the Linux command line, HPC (SLURM, SGE), containers, and cloud computing
● Prior experience in leading technical projects and teams
● Demonstrated product development experience for either internal or external facing software
● Strong oral and written communication skills
We offer a competitive and comprehensive employee benefits package including medical, dental, and vision, LTD, paid vacation, 401k and a stock plan.
Alida Biosciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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