At Seer, we are passionate about empowering our customers to expand scientific discoveries and achieve exceptional scientific outcomes. Our team is growing quickly as we develop innovative approaches to solve complex biological questions. And we believe the next frontier in biology is enabled through a clearer and more complete view of the proteome – something that Seer can uniquely deliver. As we build our team, we are looking for collaborative, driven, intellectually curious people who are committed to solving complex challenges. Our culture rewards accountability and cross functional teamwork, because we believe that this enables the kind of breakthrough thinking that will accelerate our mission.
This role is based remotely in Germany, Netherlands or UK.
The Role
The primary focus of the Customer Experience team is to delight our customers, make them successful, and drive market adoption of our Proteograph™ products. We are seeking an exceptional Field Applications Scientist to join our growing commercial team. This individual will be a key hire in laying the groundwork for a best-in-class customer experience and leaving their mark on our culture and behaviors for years to come.
Responsibilities & Goals
The Field Applications Scientist will be part of a team whose goal is to provide a customer experience unparalleled in the life science industry. The ideal candidate will have a track record of accomplishments in academia and in the life sciences/pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. Candidates must have a strong entrepreneurial orientation and an industrious attitude. Areas of specific responsibility and attention for this role include:
- Support the development of a Customer Experience organization that is structured for growth, global operational excellence, and customer and employee success.
- Become an expert in Seers technology, understand the competitive landscape, and articulate Seer’s value proposition.
- Actively take part in the customer life cycle from partnering with sales on prospecting to coordinating and performing customer site trainings to troubleshooting issues and reporting the voice of customer back to internal groups.
- Help customers conduct novel proteomics experiments at scale and speed. Maximize their success by assisting with experimental design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of results.
- Help with training and supporting global distributor partners.
- Deliver informative pre-sales presentations, post-sales training, and educate customers and prospects on the use of Seer technology.
- Foster a positive and supportive working relationship with customers. Help manage their expectations and gain their trust.
- Identify, document, and communicate customer experience feedback, product requirements, market trends, and business intelligence to internal stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver materials for customer-facing activities like support processes for installations, training, and knowledge management.
- Develop strong interdepartmental collaborations with Marketing, Sales, Product Development, and Automation to ensure the voice of customer is heard and escalations are resolved with urgency.
Background & Qualifications
- Ph.D. in a life science discipline.
- 3+ years lab experience.
- 3+ years of experience supporting customers in a commercial environment preferred.
- 2+ years supporting distributor partners preferred.
- Hands on experience with common biochemistry, molecular biology and data analysis techniques (LC-MS/MS and proteomics preferred).
- Experience in experimental design, interpretation, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Ability to develop solutions to complex problems that require innovation and collaboration.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills with demonstrated success in delivering presentations and trainings.
- Aptitude for understanding, communicating, and training on scientific concepts, applications, and methods.
- Commitment to providing outstanding customer service.
- Ability to handle the dynamic, fast-paced, and multi-tasking environment of a rapidly growing biotech company.
- Strong and collaborative work ethic; must be a self-starter and persistent in achieving objectives to support Seer’s scientific and business goals.
- Collaborate well in a small team setting with the ability to work independently and collaboratively while meeting scheduled deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 80%.
- Language skills: English required. Multiple language skills are a plus.
- Ability to lift/push/pull up to 25 pounds regularly.
- For prolonged periods; stand, sit at a computer and wear PPE in a lab setting.
Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.
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What We Do
At Seer, we develop innovative solutions that act as a gateway to the proteome. Our goal is to empower the scientific community with tools to achieve exceptional scientific outcomes. We do this by removing the technological barriers that stand between breakthrough ideas and the information that can make them a reality.
Over the last 15 years, the fields of genomics and transcriptomics have undergone an explosion in content and discovery, fueled by massively parallel technologies that made large-scale studies possible and tractable. Advancement in those fields have deepened our understanding of biology and ushered in new treatment mechanisms and diagnostics solutions that impact everyday human life.
Similar capabilities have evaded the field of proteomics. As a result, researchers have been forced into a tradeoff: the scale of the study, or the depth of its coverage. Until now.
We’re committed to eliminating the obstacles that have kept proteomics’ potential from matching the pace of advancements we’ve seen in other fields. We believe that unbiased, deep, rapid, large-scale proteomics can, and must, become accessible to the broad scientific community so that we may significantly advance our understanding of biology, health, and disease. And those studies will require solutions that allow us to accurately survey and analyze the full diversity of proteins across individuals, over time.
