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A Rare Opportunity to Shape the Future of Genomics
Join a team of brilliant, passionate innovators determined to transform healthcare. At BillionToOne, we've built a category-defining, publicly traded company on Nasdaq where transparency fuels trust, collaboration drives breakthroughs, and every contribution moves the needle on our mission to make life-changing diagnostics accessible to all. We don't just aim for incremental improvements; we build products that are 10x better than anything that exists today.
Our scientists, engineers, sales executives, and visionaries are united by an unwavering commitment to changing the standard of care in prenatal and cancer diagnostics. This is where cutting-edge science meets human compassion, and every innovation you contribute helps remove the fear of the unknown from some of life's most critical medical moments.
If you're driven by purpose, energized by innovation, and ready to help shape the future of precision medicine at scale, this is where you belong.
BillionToOne is seeking an exceptional Associate Creative Director (Prenatal) to lead creative strategy and execution across our product, sales, and marketing initiatives. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge science and compelling visual storytelling—translating complex science into clear, engaging narratives that resonate with providers, clinicians, patients, and partners.
- Brand Development & Campaigns: Lead brand development and communication strategy for Unity, our prenatal genetic portfolio product line. Develop creative strategy and art direction for social media content, event activations, experience design, and outdoor advertising. Create provider- and patient-facing brand advertising, product marketing, and sales enablement content across display, social, video, and experiential channels.
- Strategic Design Leadership: Partner with Product, Sales, and Marketing to define project objectives, translating requested outputs into measurable business outcomes. Develop creative strategies informed by insights into what drives behavior across providers, patients, and industry partners. Break down complex creative work into plans that align with business goals and timelines.
- Art, Copy & Messaging: Direct art, copy, and message development, balancing scientific accuracy with emotional resonance and accessibility.
- Creative Direction & Execution: Lead art direction across print, digital, video, animation, presentations, environmental graphics, and branded experiences. Transform complex scientific concepts—including molecular diagnostics, genetic testing, and laboratory workflows—into compelling visual narratives.
- Design Systems & Brand Guidelines: Establish and evolve design systems and brand guidelines that scale with our rapid company growth.
- Creative Production: Direct photography, illustration, motion graphics, and video production with internal teams and external vendors.
- Team Leadership & Development: Guide and mentor design team members and contractors, providing clear creative direction and constructive feedback. Build a culture of creative excellence, intellectual curiosity, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Present and defend creative concepts to C-suite executives, board members, and scientific leadership. Manage feedback from subject matter experts while maintaining creative vision and strategic objectives.
- Project Delivery: Oversee projects from concept through final delivery, ensuring quality, accuracy, and on-time completion. Manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Production Partnerships & Asset Management: Coordinate with external vendors, agencies, and production partners. Maintain organized asset libraries and project documentation.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of professional design experience.
- 5+ years in art direction roles with demonstrated leadership.
- Proven track record of designing in science, bioscience, healthtech, or diagnostics.
- An exceptional portfolio demonstrating the ability to translate complex scientific or technical concepts into accessible, engaging visual communications.
- Experience in high-growth or IPO-stage companies is helpful.
- Background at design firms, agencies, or in-house creative teams at innovative companies.
- Genuine intellectual curiosity about medicine, science, computation, and physics, with the courage to challenge the status quo.
- Enthusiasm for translating complex science and technology into visual stories.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid pivots in a dynamic growth environment.
- Expert-level skills in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects.
- Proficiency with AI creative tools such as Midjourney, Kling, Imagen, Veo, or similar platforms.
- Video editing experience with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro.
- Strong understanding of motion design, animation principles, and video production workflows.
- Client Consulting: Skilled at uncovering true project objectives and guiding stakeholders from vague requests to defined, measurable outcomes.
- Information Design: Exceptional ability to organize and visualize complex data, processes, and scientific concepts with clarity and sophistication.
- Typography: Mastery of typographic systems, hierarchy, and expression across applications.
- Art Direction: Proven ability to establish and maintain cohesive visual direction across campaigns and touchpoints.
- Animation & Motion: Proven experience in motion design, kinetic typography, and video storytelling.
- Ability to balance creative ambition with practical business constraints.
Benefits And Perks:
- Working alongside brilliant, kind, passionate and dedicated colleagues, in an empowering environment, toward a global vision, striving for a future in which transformative molecular diagnostics can help millions of patients
- Open, transparent culture that includes weekly Town Hall meetings
- The ability to indirectly or directly change the lives of hundreds of thousands patients
- Multiple medical benefit options; employee premiums paid 100% of select plans, dependents covered up to 80%
- Extremely generous Family Bonding Leave for eligible employees (16 weeks, paid at 100%)
- Supplemental fertility benefits coverage
- Retirement savings program including a 4% Company match
- Increase paid time off with increased tenure
- Latest and greatest hardware (laptop, lab equipment, facilities)
- Free daily on-site lunches provided from top eateries
- A variety of perks on campus (state of the art gym, restaurant)
- Free on-site EV charging (compatible with all EVs, including Tesla)
At BillionToOne, we are proud to offer a combination of (1) competitive base pay, (2) the opportunity for professional growth, and (3) industry leading company benefits (free healthcare options, 401k match, very generous fully paid parental leave etc.).
The base salary range for this role is $223,024 to $244,783. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and receives a new hire equity grant of up to $80,000 at grant value, vesting over four years, plus annual equity refresh grants equal in value to the new hire grant. Together, the total four-year value of base, target bonus, and equity is up to approximately $1.3 million. We also offer competitive medical and dental coverage and a 401(k) with company match.
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BillionToOne is a next-generation molecular diagnostics company on a mission to make powerful, accurate diagnostic tests accessible to everyone. Our revolutionary QCT molecular counting technology enhances disease detection resolution by over a thousandfold using cell-free DNA,a breakthrough that has already transformed the lives of over half a million patients worldwide.
Our Impact
Unity Complete™ is the only non-invasive prenatal screen capable of assessing fetal risk for both common recessive conditions and aneuploidies from a single maternal blood sample. Unity Confirm™ enables non-invasive confirmation for high-risk screening results through the capture of intact circulating fetal cells using BillionToOne’s Fetal Cell Capture™ Technology. Our Northstar® liquid biopsy test uniquely combines treatment selection with real-time monitoring, giving oncologists unprecedented precision in cancer care.
Our Growth
From $0 to $400M+ annualized revenue run-rate in just 6 years. In 2025, we completed one of the most successful IPOs for a medical diagnostics company, building on nearly $400M in private funding,including our $130M Series D in 2024 and backed by world-class investors including Hummingbird, Adams Street Partners, Neuberger Berman, Baillie Gifford, and Premji Invest.
Our Recognition
Forbes named us one of America's Best Startup Employers for 2025 and we're Great Place to Work certified, with 100% of our people willing to go the extra mile, even as we've scaled to over 700 employees.
Our Future
Headquartered in Menlo Park with facilities in Union City, CA, and a new lab opening in Austin, TX in 2027, we're continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible in molecular diagnostics. We're just getting started.
Ready to help us change the world, one molecule at a time? Learn more at billiontoone.com
