Senior Director – Marketing, Caris MRD

Phoenix, AZ (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the annual marketing strategy for the MRD portfolio, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, business priorities, and growth goals.
  • Define customer segmentation, targeting, positioning, and messaging strategies that effectively communicate the clinical, economic, and patient value of Caris MRD solutions.
  • Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital, field, event, content, and demand generation channels to increase customer engagement and drive product adoption.
  • Lead marketing initiatives supporting product launches, new indications, scientific publications, commercial programs, and lifecycle management activities.
  • Partner with Commercial Leadership to develop sales enablement resources, including customer presentations, sales tools, competitive intelligence, field communications, and training materials.
  • Collaborate with Medical Affairs and Clinical Development to translate scientific evidence and clinical data into compelling, compliant marketing communications and customer-facing materials.
  • Support publication planning, advisory boards, scientific symposia, industry meetings, and major oncology conferences.
  • Lead market research and voice-of-customer initiatives to better understand customer needs, market trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging commercial opportunities.
  • Monitor competitive intelligence and market insights to refine marketing strategies, strengthen product positioning, and support commercial decision-making.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial, Clinical Development, Business Development, Corporate Communications, and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated commercialization and marketing execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in life sciences, healthcare, or a related field preferred.
  • Ten (10) or more years of progressive marketing experience within healthcare, biotechnology, life sciences, diagnostics, or precision medicine.
  • Experience in oncology, molecular diagnostics, genomics, precision medicine, or minimal residual disease (MRD) strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing integrated marketing strategies that drive commercial growth and product adoption.
  • Experience supporting product launches and commercialization within a complex healthcare or life sciences environment.
  • Strong understanding of physician marketing, clinical evidence generation, healthcare reimbursement, and market access.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across a matrixed organization.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, project management, and organizational skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze market data, customer insights, and commercial performance metrics to inform strategic decision-making.

Preferred

  • MBA or advanced degree in life sciences, healthcare, or a related field preferred.
  • Experience in oncology, molecular diagnostics, genomics, precision medicine, or minimal residual disease (MRD) strongly preferred.
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Caris Life Sciences

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Caris Life Sciences® (Caris) is the leading next-generation TechBio company and precision medicine pioneer that is actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare and improve the human condition. Through comprehensive molecular profiling (Whole Exome and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing) and the application of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, Caris has created the large-scale, clinico-genomic database and computing capability needed to analyze and unravel the molecular complexity of disease. This convergence of sequencing power, big data and AI technologies provides an unmatched platform to deliver the next-generation of precision medicine tools for early detection, diagnosis, monitoring, therapy selection and drug development.Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Caris has offices in Phoenix, New York, Tokyo, Japan and Basel, Switzerland. Caris or its distributor partners provide services in the U.S., Europe, Asia and other international markets.

Founded in 1996
Irving, Texas, USA
1.5K employees (30 in marketing)
44% recommend to a friend
42% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
54.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.8%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
6.4%
Social
1.3%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
23 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
4.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$1.9B
Last Raise
$168M
Private Equity, 11 months ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Private Equity • $168M
  • Jan 2023
    Debt Financing • $400M
  • May 2021
    Private Equity • $830M

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