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title: 'Head of Growth at Valius Sciences'
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# Head of Growth at Valius Sciences

- **Company:** Valius Sciences
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valiussciences/6e9dd30f-d411-4533-92ad-cac684289e0a

## Job description

Valius overview At Valius, we believe that the future of cancer care will be defined by “maximalist” diagnostics: deep, comprehensive assessments of DNA, RNA, and protein designed to give patients and their care teams the best possible understanding of how their tumor works and what its vulnerabilities are.

We’re building the diagnostics and bioinformatics company to power this future, starting by applying this approach to patients with challenging cancers. In our first year, we worked with over 75 of these patients and, in many cases, identified plausible therapeutic targets which had not been discovered previously. This coming year, we’re on track to scale our patient volume significantly, all while bringing new diagnostic modalities (e.g., single-cell and spatial transcriptomics) and analytical approaches into clinical care for the very first time.

We’ve raised a $13.5M seed round, led by 8VC and Basis Set Ventures, and are looking for people passionate about changing cancer care to join our growing team.

## Role overview

We're hiring a Head of Growth to build and lead our patient-facing marketing efforts. You'll partner with our product and patient engagement teams to develop campaign ideas spanning organic social posts, social advertisements, events, and more to grow awareness of Valius’s offering. In addition to setting our growth strategy, you’ll own its day-to-day execution as our founding marketing hire.

This is a unique opportunity to build a new capability at a fast-growing startup, where you’ll get regular exposure to the founding team.

This is an in-person role in San Francisco.

## What you’ll do

- Define our growth marketing strategy in partnership with the founding and patient engagement teams
- Develop and launch campaigns to grow patient awareness across social media, events, and paid channels
- Support marketing relationships with patient advocacy and support communities
- Direct and optimize Valius’s SEO and AEO
- Work with product and science teams to present Valius’s scientific offering in terms patients can understand
- Define and monitor success metrics for your campaigns
- Manage marketing contractors and budgets

## What you’ll bring

- 5+ years in growth marketing in consumer-facing setting
- Experience building new marketing motions and processes from the ground up
- Experience developing and executing impactful organic and paid campaigns on social media
- Experience at a health, medtech, wellness, or nutrition company (strongly preferred)
- Experience at a startup (strongly preferred)
- Experience supporting events in partnership with other team members or third-parties (strongly preferred)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to our patient-focused mission

Nice to haves:

- Exposure to or knowledge of oncology, molecular diagnostics, or a related field

## What we’ll bring

- Competitive salary and equity compensation
- Generous refresh grants
- Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, 401(k))
- Genuine investment in your professional development
- Fun, mission-driven team culture

## About Valius Sciences

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valius Sciences provides maximalist molecular diagnostic testing for cancer patients, mapping tumors across DNA, RNA, and protein layers to identify actionable therapeutic targets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Series A – conflicting reports)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Edward Larkin, Claire Oldfield (COO), Sarah Hesse (Head of Translational Science)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cancer diagnostics, precision oncology, molecular testing
- Target customers: B2C (cancer patients, especially those with rare, aggressive, or treatment-resistant cancers) and B2B (oncologists and care teams)
- Mission or purpose statement: To give every cancer patient — particularly those facing rare, aggressive, or treatment-resistant disease — access to the most comprehensive molecular understanding of their tumor and available treatments.

## Products & Services
- **Valius Maximalist Diagnostics Platform**: A comprehensive testing battery that includes whole genome sequencing, whole transcriptome (RNA) sequencing, single-cell RNA sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, high-plex protein staining (IHC), and ultra-sensitive ctDNA monitoring. The service identifies mutations, copy number changes, gene expression, pathway activation, tumor heterogeneity, immune microenvironment, resistance mechanisms, and actionable surface targets. Results are delivered with ongoing scientific partnership and an AI-powered, queryable data platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — conflicting reports: $10M (Seed, per DefineVC and Tracxn) or $13.5M (per company blog). [definevc.com](https://www.definevc.com/insights/putting-the-patient-at-the-center-of-cancer-science-with-valius-sciences) / [valiussciences.com](https://www.valiussciences.com/) (blog post)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 8VC, Basis Set Ventures (seed round)
- **Growth Signals**: Raised funding in early 2026; has worked with patients across 25+ cancer types; early cases identified new drug targets not found by prior diagnostics; hiring across key roles (Computational Biologist, Translational Scientist, Software Engineer, Operations Lead).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Maximalist, multi-omics approach**: Covers DNA, RNA, and protein comprehensively rather than limited panel testing; leaves no stone unturned.
- **Ongoing scientific partnership**: Unlike standard PDF-report diagnostics, Valius provides dedicated scientists who meet regularly with patients and physicians, and data remains accessible and queryable forever via AI.
- **Patient-centric model**: Direct-pay service (pricing $50k–$150k with discounts); focuses on biologically plausible targets regardless of cancer type; supports clinical trial matching, single-patient INDs, and recurrence monitoring.
- **Top-tier team**: Founders combine operational discipline, commercial rigor, and deep scientific credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform to reach more patients with rare, aggressive, or recurrent cancers.
- Continue refining the AI-powered data platform for real-time querying and analysis.
- Expand partnerships with oncologists and treatment centers to integrate Valius findings into care pathways.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Direct, immediate impact on cancer patients’ treatment options.
- **Interdisciplinary culture**: Hires computational biologists, scientists, engineers, and clinicians who span disciplines and don’t fit neatly into boxes.
- **Cutting-edge tech**: Work with whole genome, single-cell, spatial, and proteomic data at scale.
- **Autonomy & ownership**: Small, focused team with front-line patient interaction.
- **Location**: San Francisco (likely office-first; remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated). “Outlier” culture emphasized.
- **Open roles**: Computational Biologist, Translational Scientist, Software Engineer, Operations Lead (as of 2026).

## Sources
1. [Valius Sciences Website](https://www.valiussciences.com/)
2. [Valius Sciences Careers Page](https://www.valiussciences.com/careers)
3. [DefineVC Investment Blog](https://www.definevc.com/insights/putting-the-patient-at-the-center-of-cancer-science-with-valius-sciences)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/valius/__spxuU3YvDbNRZwJnIIruRczc89b40XA-xktgbWeCXkI)
5. [Ashby Careers Portal](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valiussciences)

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