About Us

Youtopia®: We’re on a mission to optimize your health with precision nourishment. Our initial product launch will provide a way to make this simple and achievable for all of us. Our tribe is built on the foundation of love, being a blessing to others and transforming the lives of millions. 

On our team, you will get to dedicate 70% of your working time doing what you do best: building amazing things with other amazing people in a fast-paced environment and having a blast doing it! 

About the Position

Youtopia Health is central to Youtopia’s ability to drive measurable health and wellness outcomes for Youtopians. We currently have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional leader to join Youtopia Health. The VP of Optimizing Health with Precision Nourishment you will be responsible for managing multiple interrelated projects as we develop the Youtopia Health business unit. Salary for this position is $140,000 - $175,000 depending on experience. The VP of Optimizing Health with Precision Nourishment will lead the following team:

• Director of Nourishment Optimization 
• Director of Human Performance Assessment & Education
• Director of Bioinformatics
• Director of Behavioral Sciences 
• Director of Laboratory Sciences
• Director of Medical Services
• Exponential Chef 
• Content Experts including:
  • Nutritional Expertise
  • Wearables/Integration Expertise
  • Genetics Expertise
  • Lifestyle Medicine Expertise
  • Disease/Nutrition Expertise
  • Biotoxins Expertise

As our VP of Optimizing Health with Precision Nourishment, you will:

• Partner with experts in personalization, machine learning, and ranking across Engineering, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Medical Services, and Design to define innovative approaches while leveraging the power of Data, AI, and ML.
• Oversee usability considerations, including physical, cognitive, social, and organizational aspects of human factors that influence performance while interacting with Intuitive products.
• Continuously translate business, scientific, and analytic requirements into actionable data, annotation, and infrastructure specifications.
• Drive the process of streamlining/standardizing data access, quality control, management, and working closely with Data Scientists/Strategists, Medical experts, and others.
• Oversee sequencing and companion diagnostic projects and process improvement.
• Align the nine human foundational factors around a shared mission and vision furthering care integration goals. 
• Develop and execute holistic data/infrastructure partnership strategy throughout product development lifecycles - e.g., to enable algorithm training/validation, test product performance, address key clinical/commercial questions and evaluate deployment opportunities.
• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project timelines and ensure accurate inputs are provided by all functional leads. 
• Identify, leverage, and support cross-functional teams by navigating complex modality-specific challenges (highly diverse data acquisition standards, highly dynamic and innovative internal/external data landscape) and mitigating interdependencies and risks.
• Develop product strategy roadmaps
• Tackle challenging, complex problems that play a central role in how customers find, search, navigate and receive recommendations to create an industry-leading human performance experience. 
• Guide the process of identifying meaningful use cases from conceptualization through post-launch, ensuring that input is considered throughout the process and supporting decisions when tradeoffs need to be made.
• Advocate for a data-driven culture and support the long-term value creation through the development of outstanding data science capabilities in the areas of predictive modeling, record linking, graph modeling, and neural networks.
• Contribute to technical discussions, help translate questions into data science problems and find cost-effective solutions.
• Keep internal stakeholders engaged and informed of progress and potential risks.

What you bring to the table:

• An entrepreneurial mindset that balances creative problem solving with collaboration.
• Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the health & human performance industry.
• Passionate about creating world-class solutions and working in a startup environment where there are big responsibilities along with the opportunity to make a big impact.
• Understanding algorithm/product development and ability to translate data science requirements into data acquisition, labeling, and use requirements.
• Working across imaging/digital health, data science, and IT domain knowledge with a demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder groups with diverse scientific/technical backgrounds.
• Strong ability and a passionate desire to lead cross-functional teams, understand and help teams to prioritize, and provide strategic and operational guidance.
• Working knowledge of multidisciplinary functions involved in product development (e.g., data science, informatics, clinical science, and biostatistics).
• Demonstrated ability to develop and apply new tools for the integrative analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional datasets.
• Understands the requirements to successfully deploy technology in a health and wellness organization.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and effectively communicate with a wide range of internal and external audiences.
• Proven track record of building algorithm-based products at scale (serving millions of customers).
• Proven leadership track record
• Enormous desire and capability to integrate multiple scientifically complex modalities’.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality, regulatory-grade written deliverables. 
• Skillful at working both independently and in team settings and comfortable with a fast-paced environment. 
• Creative mindset with exceptional problem-solving ability.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and asking for clarification.
• A demonstrated ability to establish and maintain credibility as a leader and business partner.
• Ability to conduct technology analyses/evaluations, infrastructure decisions, and deep code reviews.

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks. 
• Knowledge of testing instruments to measure traits and states as well as computer-assisted testing of human performance.
• Ability to define and utilize metrics to drive innovation
• Nutritional and medical technology, bioinformatics expertise.
• Strong ability to break down barriers.

Required experience and education:

• Master's or Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines. 
• At least 15+ years of project management experience in a biotech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or clinical research organization environment developing programs from inception to deployment.
• Minimum 10 years of post-education experience working with cloud-based research infrastructure.
• Minimum 8 years of experience leading the development and implementation of novel methods and bioinformatics tools.
• Relevant experience in molecular biology, immunology, bioengineering, human computational biology, statistical genetics, or related fields.
• Deep understanding of disease biology in one or more therapeutic areas.
• Experience building, mentoring, and leading technical and scientific teams.
•  Experience in advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning projects
• Experience working with bioinformatics and companion diagnostic programs from the diagnostic or pharma side.
• A strong knowledge base of health and human performance and diagnostics.
• Previous bioinformatics leadership experience preferred.
• Experience in Machine Learning applications in genomic or biopharmaceutical research is a strong plus.
• Prior experience in discovery research or translational medicine would be an asset.

Why you should work with us:

• Unique opportunity to work with a group of top professionals on the path to helping millions of people achieve vibrant health through the power of optimal individualized nutrition.
• Join a dynamic collaborative team that will design and deploy innovative products. 
• You will be part of an organization that is positively making a difference in the world.
• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance.
• Onsite workout facility.