Histology Ops Leader: Scale Tissue Processing & Team

Breakout Ventures; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Stock options

Paid holidays

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Noetik, based in South San Francisco, seeks an experienced Histology Manager to lead histology operations and a growing team, ensuring high-quality tissue processing for FFPE, H&E, and downstream assays.

You will mentor the histology staff, build scalable workflows, and adopt automation to support increasing sample volumes while maintaining rigorous standards and collaboration across biosample, pathology, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, histotechnology, or related field.
• Extensive hands-on experience in histology, including FFPE tissue preparation and sectioning.
• Demonstrated expertise sectioning a broad range of human tissue types, including challenging specimens.
• Experience managing a histology team supporting high throughput tissue workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day histology operations, including FFPE reembedding, sectioning, H&E staining, and related tissue processing workflows.
• Serve as technical resource for difficult or complex histology issues.
• Establish and maintain standards for each step of the histology workflow, troubleshoot all aspects of the histology workflow.
• Ensure consistent production of high quality tissue sections for downstream assays including H&E, immunostaining, and spatial transcriptomics.
• Partner with downstream assay teams to understand requirements and ensure appropriate tissue preparation.

Skills

Histology

Team leadership

Histotechnology

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences

Histotechnology degree

Tools

LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)

Histology equipment

Job description

Noetik, based in South San Francisco, seeks an experienced Histology Manager to lead histology operations and a growing team, ensuring high-quality tissue processing for FFPE, H&E, and downstream assays.

You will mentor the histology staff, build scalable workflows, and adopt automation to support increasing sample volumes while maintaining rigorous standards and collaboration across biosample, pathology, and platform teams.