About MyHeritage

MyHeritage is a global leader in family history and consumer DNA testing, enriching the lives of millions worldwide by enabling them to uncover more about themselves and where they belong. With a suite of intuitive products, billions of historical records, an affordable at-home DNA test, and AI-powered photo tools, MyHeritage creates a meaningful discovery experience that is deeply rewarding.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Director of Science to guide MyHeritage’s scientific research and development in genetics. This role is central to building innovative algorithms, driving rigorous data analysis, and advancing the scientific methodologies that power our DNA products - including ethnicity estimation, relationship inference, local ancestry, and more. 

The ideal candidate combines deep scientific expertise in population and statistical genetics with strong leadership and a proven ability to execute in a dynamic, consumer-facing environment.

Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide, helping them discover their ancestry and connect with family through science. You’ll apply cutting-edge methods to analyze millions of DNA samples and family trees, leveraging one of the largest consumer genetics datasets in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Scientific leadership: Define and execute the scientific roadmap aligned with company goals.
• Team leadership: Manage and mentor a team of senior scientists and data scientists. Provide technical direction, support professional growth, and foster a culture of scientific excellence.
• Algorithmic research: Lead the design, development and optimization of scalable, production-ready algorithms and pipelines including ancestry inference, relationship classifiers, imputation and phasing of genetic data and additional models to support genetic genealogy.
• Collaboration and communication: Work closely with engineering, product, and data teams to translate research outcomes into user-facing features and tools. Clearly communicate scientific concepts and progress internally and externally.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong, hands-on experience in human population genetics and analysis of genotyping and/or sequencing data is essential. We are specifically looking for candidates with a demonstrated track record in this domain.
• Ph.D. in Genetics, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience with population genetics and analysis of genotyping or sequencing data. 
• 5+ years of experience in scientific research, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong background in:
  1. Analysis of genotyping or sequencing data
  2. Genomic data pipelines and bioinformatics tools.
  3. Machine learning or statistical modeling applied to biological data
• Experience working with large-scale genomic datasets.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with production-scale computational pipelines. Familiarity with tools such as Snakemake, Airflow, or other pipeline managers is an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively across disciplines.
• Experience with AWS is an advantage.

Why Join Us?

• Join a purpose-driven company helping people discover their heritage through the power of science.
• Be part of a collaborative, international team driven by innovation and scientific discovery.
• Enjoy a hybrid work environment with flexibility and autonomy.

Additional Information

• This role involves remote management of an Israel-based team.
• The position includes occasional travel to Israel, as needed.

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What do we need

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Product Manager / Product Owner to support Dotmatics Luma.  You will have the opportunity to work on a product that unifies science data and data science in a highly functional and innovative data-led multi-tenant platform that brings the best the market has to offer in data modelling, ingestion, translation, discovery, insight, and action.  Reporting to the Principal Product Manager you will work in an agile software development environment with a team of Product Managers, and the wider Dotmatics organization.  As the Product Manager you will play a leading role in defining and executing on the Dotmatics Luma strategy as it applies to the assigned product area in a manner that reflects the goals of supporting complete research workflows and helps our customers reduce time-to-market and costs and increase innovation and ROI of their scientific R&D processes via a toolset that serves as the foundation for their lab of the future. 

In this role you will get to

• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders inside and outside the organization to collect and understand strategic and tactical prioritized objectives and requirements including but not limited to non-functional requirements around scalability, performance, reliability, upgradability, resiliency, maintainability; and functional requirements around low-code modelling, data dashboards, insights, user experience, and all related tooling.
• Effectively perform technology research tasks, competitive analysis, partnership discussions, customer discussions, design objectives, and other product and engineering activities
• Participate in sprint planning, sprint reviews, and other agile events – acting as a trusted partner to engineering
• Communicate status and key metrics internally to key team members
• Assist in go-to-market activities, such as contributing to marketing collateral, creating demonstration videos, etc.
• Translate initiatives into Stories within Jira that maintain fidelity to the strategy in a way that will bring success to our users
• Own project scope, priorities, and track to milestones, timelines and deliverables
• Use data insights such as product analytics to uncover opportunities
• Create wireframes and clickable prototypes to communicate ideas
• Write PRDs, user stories and flows to describe requirements
• Be unrelenting and unremitting in maintaining a quality product. Bugs insult you to the core.
• Perform and assist with UAT

We are looking for people who have 8+ years experience in software (SaaS) product management. Ideally you will have a Degree or higher education in Data Science, Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics or related Life Science or Technical fields and experience working with scientific instrument data and applications of AI in life sciences.

The Key Skills we are looking for:

• Product Management of B2B Enterprise SaaS products
• Working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Building and executing on Product Roadmaps
• Quality Analysis & User Acceptance Testing
• Working as part of a cross-functional team delivering on time and to specification
• Fluency in Confluence and Jira or similar tools
• Quality Analysis & User Acceptance testing
• Senior internal stakeholder and client communication skills
• Comfort leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and accelerate your work

You may also have:

• Experience building Agent and/or AI applications in professional settings
• Understanding of AI/ML related security concerns in regulated settings and hardened network environments
• Experience working with or building ELNs, LIMS, Scientific Instrument Data workflows
• An understanding of scientific data platforms, data management needs, data modelling, model-driven multi-tenant platform architectures, BI & reporting tools 
• Building wireframes (Figma of similar)
• Working knowledge of Databricks 
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining on-prem installable products
• Experience working with variety of data formats and transfer protocols including files, non-structured data, OPC-UA streams, IoT devices, etc.