Process Specialist - Major Incidents

Tempus AI, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity compensation

Job summary

Tempus AI, Inc. in Chicago is seeking a Process Specialist to lead end-to-end Major Incident responses and coordinate cross-functional teams. You will drive incident resolution, maintain runbooks, and communicate updates to leadership and stakeholders.

The role requires 2–3 years in IT operations or ITSM, with strong analytical, communication, and incident-management skills. Hybrid work and competitive salary are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering, Healthcare, or related field.
• 2–3 years IT operations, service desk, incident coordination, or related ITSM roles.
• Experience with enterprise ITSM platforms (ServiceNow preferred).
• Strong incident management, decision-making, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end response for Major Incidents and coordinate crisis management.
• Matrix-manage resources across engineering, product, operations, and vendors.
• Draft timely communications to stakeholders with status, impact, and timelines.
• Track RCA and post-incident reviews; ensure corrective actions.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and incident templates.
• Maintain Major Incident dashboard and reports.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and automation.

Skills

Incident management

Analytical skills

Communication

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Healthcare

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry? Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Process Specialist - Major Incidents

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Incident Response & Coordination: Lead and coordinate the end-to-end response for Major Incidents. Act as the "command and control" during critical events by facilitating bridge calls, driving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring clear actions are assigned to restore systems promptly.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Matrix-manage people and resources across engineering, product management, operational leads, and third-party vendors. Partner with Legal, Clinical, and Quality teams when Major Incidents require evaluation from these specific functions.
• Stakeholder Communication: Draft and distribute timely, accurate communications to business stakeholders, leadership, and service teams, providing clear updates on incident status, impact assessments, and recovery timelines.
• Post-Incident Management: Track root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews. Ensure thorough data gathering, identification of systemic issues, and process oversight for tracking the end-to-end completion of corrective and preventive actions.
• Process Ownership & Documentation: Maintain, optimize, and produce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), incident management runbooks, and communication templates to ensure readiness during major events.
• Data Quality & Reporting: Maintain the Major Incident dashboard and prepare regular reviews, metrics, and reports for various teams across the business.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze incident trends and performance metrics to identify and execute opportunities for process optimization and automation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Healthcare, or a related field (or equivalent relevant work experience).
• Experience: 2–3 years of experience in IT operations, service desk, incident coordination, or related IT service management (ITSM) roles.
• Tooling & Systems: Baseline experience working with enterprise ITSM platforms (ServiceNow preferred).
• Technical Awareness: Foundational technology awareness and an aptitude for learning complex, proprietary software architectures.
• Incident Management & Analytical Skills: Strong incident management, decision-making, and analytical skills. Proven ability to analyze high volumes of technical data and work effectively under time pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical issues concisely to stakeholders at all management levels.
• Availability: Ability to participate in an on-call rotation to support 24x7 operations, including weekend/evening coverage as required by the team schedule.

Preferred Qualifications

• AI-Driven Process Optimization: Practical experience utilizing AI tooling or machine learning features within ITSM platforms to drive continuous improvement, automate routine workflows, or flag anomalous incident trends.
• Industry Experience: 2+ years of experience in Healthcare and/or Lab Operations with functional knowledge of healthcare data, PHI, HIPAA, and CAP/CLIA regulatory environments.
• Methodologies: Working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Data Capabilities: Basic data analysis skills (such as experience utilizing SQL or Excel for simple data pulls and reporting) to support incident trend analysis.

#LI-Hybrid #Li-HR1 CHI - $75,000 - $110,000 The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience.

Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company’s first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics. We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

We’re looking for people who can change the world. Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.