About the Opportunity

Driscoll’s has a Mission to delight consumers in alignment with its customers and berry growers. In R&D, this means creating and optimizing new berry varieties that are best-in-class for flavor while ensuring the long-term success of our customers and growers. This Mission is driven by a Win with Flavor strategy, where the Genomics Lead will set the vision and technical direction for a pan-genome foundation supporting R&D in breeding, breeding analytics, consumer insights, flavor metabolomics, plant health, physiology, and postharvest innovation to create industry-leading varieties. The Genomics Lead will sit on the R&D Management Team, collaborating across these functions to integrate the most relevant advances in plant genomics into new variety development to drive Driscoll’s Mission forward.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership in polyploid pan-genomics across Driscoll’s berries, creating a vision for building a pan-genome foundation to drive future genotyping, sequencing, precision breeding, and gene discovery innovations.

• Manage the generation, curation, and primary analysis of sequence data for multiple R&D applications, using and supervising the application of R, Python, and other Unix-based methods.

• Closely collaborate and align with internal groups to enable others in the application of pan-genome insights across the R&D organization, integrating existing tools where available or building custom bioinformatic pipelines and IT solutions.

• Supervise a cross-functional team who manages Driscoll’s genotyping, sequencing, and multiomics integrations, mentoring the team in genomics and professional development.

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert in projects involving gene discovery, genome assembly, genome visualization, haplotype analysis, gene annotation, sequence-based genotyping, SNP panels, and bioinformatic solutions.

• Develop and lead hands-on training and consultations to accelerate the broad adoption of genomics by global R&D scientists.

• Be a leader in a culture of organized data and reproducible science, supporting both Next Generation Breeding and other teams collaborating towards enterprise goals.

• Manage the associated budget associated with Driscoll’s plant genomics workflows.

Candidate Profile

• PhD in Genomics, Genetics, Plant Breeding, Bioinformatics, or a related field with significant exposure to modern breeding methods and technologies.

• Five or more years of industry experience in genomics and R&D.

• Polyploid pan-genomes: Genome assembly, haplotype and genome visualization, copy number variation.

• DNA/RNA/marker data alignment, filtration, assembly tuning, SNP panel development, low-pass whole-genome sequencing, imputation, and genotyping-by-sequencing.

• Applying R, Python, Unix and related third-party tools in genomics.

Compensation and Benefits

The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the salary range and benefits for the position posted. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate is dependent upon experience, skills, education, work location, internal pay equity, and other objective job-related factors.

Salary Range estimated for the Genomics Lead role: $107,344.00/year to $173,428.00/year.

Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include: 401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP). More detailed information regarding the benefits package will be shared during the application process.

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About Driscolls

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.

Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.

Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.

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Driscoll's es el proveedor líder en la comercialización de Fresas, Frambuesas, Zarzamoras y Arándanos Azules en el mundo. Con más de 100 años de herencia en agricultura y cientos de productores independiente alrededor del mundo, Driscoll's es una compañía apasionada por cultivar Berries frescas, hermosas y deliciosas. Nuestros valores de humildad, pasión y confianza han guiado nuestra misión de deleitar a los consumidores en el mundo.

Las variedades exclusivas de Driscoll's han sido desarrolladas a través de años de investigación usando sólo métodos de mejoramiento natural. De la granja a la mesa, nos enfocamos en ofrecer una experiencia de alta calidad con apoyo de nuestros socios de la cadena de suministro.

Driscoll's es la marca de confianza de sólo las mejores Berries.