Head of Marketing

Redwood City, CA (Remote)

$185K/yr – $320K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and accelerate downstream marketing for Tempus' differentiated AI-powered diagnostics, translating product roadmaps into market-ready campaigns, aligning with sales and operations, and leading a high-performing team to move quickly in a regulated healthcare environment.

  • Differentiated Positioning & Narrative Execution
  • Disruptive Brand Messaging: Own, refine, and flow the overarching corporate narrative down to your respective marketing teams, ensuring the market clearly understands why we are fundamentally different from traditional labs across our oncology, hereditary, rare disease, and algorithmic portfolios.
  • Value Proposition Clarity: Create unique, highly differentiated product positioning that makes it incredibly easy for clinicians and customers to understand our special value proposition, with a particular opportunity to deliver on Tempus’ 1-of-1 AI capabilities

Job Description

Own and accelerate downstream marketing for Tempus' differentiated AI-powered diagnostics, translating product roadmaps into market-ready campaigns, aligning with sales and operations, and leading a high-performing team to move quickly in a regulated healthcare environment.

  • Differentiated Positioning & Narrative Execution
  • Disruptive Brand Messaging: Own, refine, and flow the overarching corporate narrative down to your respective marketing teams, ensuring the market clearly understands why we are fundamentally different from traditional labs across our oncology, hereditary, rare disease, and algorithmic portfolios.
  • Value Proposition Clarity: Create unique, highly differentiated product positioning that makes it incredibly easy for clinicians and customers to understand our special value proposition, with a particular opportunity to deliver on Tempus’ 1-of-1 AI capabilities
  • Campaign & Content Creation: Drive the end-to-end development of all downstream marketing assets, including comprehensive sales materials, high-impact social media content, and digital programs designed to capture market share.
  • Upstream Synergy: Work closely with and provide direct, collaborative support to the Upstream Marketing/Product Strategy leaders, seamlessly turning product roadmaps into commercial launch realities.
  • Commercial Lockstep: Partner deeply with Sales, Learning & Development (L&D), and Commercial Operations to ensure the field organization is fully equipped, highly trained, and executing on aligned messaging.
  • Multidisciplinary Integration: Actively integrate cross-functional discussions and synthesize critical inputs from R&D, Technology, and Medical/Clinical Development to keep downstream messaging scientifically accurate and ahead of market trends.
  • Commercial Acceleration: Synthesize customer insights and competitive dynamics to execute targeted, agile marketing strategies that accelerate adoption of our diagnostic applications.
  • Team Empowerment: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing downstream marketing organization, cultivating a culture of speed, accountability, and execution excellence.
  • Agile Execution: Rapidly deploy, test, and optimize marketing programs, navigating a fast-moving, startup-like environment with ease and poise.
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • a postgraduate qualification (e.g., MBA, MS, Ph.D.) is a distinct advantage
  • 10+ years of direct marketing experience in a highly regulated part of healthcare or life sciences, with an emphasis on commercialization, brand building, and downstream execution
  • 8+ years of experience leading marketing functions
  • 8+ years of direct people management experience
  • Commercial marketing experience in oncology, advanced diagnostics, or related segments with clinician- and industry-facing (pharma + non-pharma) products
  • Robust business acumen with a proven track record of translating complex clinical data into actionable, field-ready commercial campaigns
  • An AI-first mindset with practical familiarity utilizing or operationalizing digital tools and modern marketing workflows to enhance the customer experience
  • An entrepreneurial mindset characterized by exceptional grit, collaborative listening skills, and comfort working at a 25%+ annual growth pace
  • a postgraduate qualification (e.g., MBA, MS, Ph.D.) is a distinct advantage
  • Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.
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Tempus AI

Tempus is making precision medicine a reality by applying AI in healthcare, deriving insights from our expansive library of clinical data and molecular data. We enable physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions to deliver personalized care and targeted therapies for patients through our analytical machine learning platform that uses the power of artificial intelligence in healthcare. We also work with partners to facilitate discovery, development, and delivery of optimized therapeutic options for patients through distinctive solution sets. Our mission is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing the healthcare industry tools that learn as we gather more data. It’s About Time. For more information, visit tempus.com and follow us on Twitter (@TempusLabs).

Founded in 2015
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.9K employees (97 in marketing)