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POSITION TITLE:                Senior Director, Archon X PRIZE for Genomics
DEPARTMENT:                    Prize Operations
REPORTS TO:                       VP, Prize Operations
DURATION:                          Full Time
LOCATION:                          Playa Vista, CA

X PRIZE FOUNDATION

The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. We foster innovative, high-profile competitions that motivate individuals, companies and organizations across all boundaries to solve the grand challenges that are currently restricting humanity’s progress. 

ARCHON X PRIZE FOR GENOMICS MANAGEMENT

The $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics will be awarded to the first team that can build a device and use it to sequence 100 human genomes within 10 days or less and at a cost of no more than $10,000 per genome. Ultimately, affordable genome sequencing will allow for large population studies of afflicted disease groups, leading to new discoveries of disease/gene relationships. Results from population studies, in turn, allow for the development of new drugs and preventive treatments. Advocates of personalized medicine have stressed its potential to provide advanced screening of disease, select safer, more effective doses of medications and create better vaccines. Rapid, accurate human genome sequencing has the potential to make medicine preventative and predictive rather than reactive as it is today.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

As the leader of this important X PRIZE, this individual is accountable for the strategy, fundraising, team recruitment and successful execution of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics. The Senior Director must be a driven self-starter with senior program management and operations experience, preferably with experience in the marketing and promotion of projects or programs in the Life Sciences area. Specific responsibilities include:

TEAM RELATIONS:

FUNDRAISING, SPONSORSHIP, MARKETING, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH:

MANAGEMENT, PLANNING AND REPORTING:


KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES

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DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

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X PRIZE and YOU

This position is currently located in Playa Vista, next to Loyola-Marymount University.  We offer a full range of employment benefits including medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, LIFE, and an employee assistant program all paid in full by the organization for our regular full-time employees.

The X PRIZE Foundation was established in 1995, attracting leaders in the fields of Life Sciences (Genomics, Medicine, etc), Space, Energy, Environment, Social Welfare, Automotive Technology and more. This position is for someone who will be dedicated to making an impact here at the X PRIZE Foundation and ultimately in the world at large.  We are a small and rapidly growing organization, who will value your ideas and advice and are looking for people who will thrive in our fast paced, small group environment.

X PRIZE CULTURE

Our goals are as lofty as they come; where only through entrepreneurial persistence and visionary thinking are solutions to seemingly insurmountable social, technological and environmental issues made possible. 

While we externally strive to create a better world, we are internally working to build a culture that supports the kind of passionate, forward thinking people we need to help deliver radical breakthrough solutions to today's most critical and meaningful challenges. 

To this end, we are working together to create an environment that fosters learning and growth and encourages creativity, transparency, and diversity.

The X PRIZE FOUNDATION offers a comprehensive compensation package to our employee’s which includes the following benefits:

- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- LIFE & AD&D
- Domestic Partner Benefit Coverage
- Year End Discretionary Bonus Program
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays

The X PRIZE FOUNDATION is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate in employment. Equal access to employment, services, and programs is available to all persons.  Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.

Please note: Though submitting a resume to the X PRIZE FOUNDATION implies that you are interested in a position(s), it does not imply that you are an applicant. You are not considered an applicant until you have been contacted directly by a Human Resources representative requesting that you begin the designated application process, which may involve phone and/or in-person interview(s), job-related testing, and background checking.

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