What is an Operations Manager at Tempus labs?
An Operations Manager at Tempus labs plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between cutting-edge biotechnology and seamless clinical execution. Tempus labs is a technology company pioneering the use of AI and precision medicine to personalize patient care. In this role, you are responsible for overseeing, optimizing, and scaling the complex operational pipelines that allow genomic sequencing data and clinical insights to reach physicians and research partners efficiently and accurately.
The impact of this position is direct and high-stakes. Whether you are managing workflows within the high-throughput clinical laboratory in Chicago, coordinating data curation pipelines, or streamlining logistics for clinical trials, your work ensures that patient samples are processed without delay. A bottleneck in your operations can mean a delay in a oncologist receiving critical treatment recommendations for a patient, making operational excellence a life-saving priority.
What makes this role both challenging and rewarding is the sheer scale and complexity of the environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams of scientists, software engineers, product managers, and clinical staff. To succeed, you must be comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving efficiency in highly regulated environments (such as CLIA/CAP-certified spaces), and translating complex strategic objectives into daily, repeatable operational successes.


