Employee Experience Leader - Billerica, MA

Quanterix is a global leader in ultra-sensitive biomarker detection, enabling breakthroughs in disease research, diagnostics, and drug development. Its proprietary Simoa technology delivers industry-leading sensitivity, allowing researchers to detect and quantify biomarkers in bl ...

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Quanterix is a global leader in ultra-sensitive biomarker detection, enabling breakthroughs in disease research, diagnostics, and drug development. Its proprietary Simoa technology delivers industry-leading sensitivity, allowing researchers to detect and quantify biomarkers in blood and other fluids at concentrations far below traditional limits. With more than 3,400 peer-reviewed publications, Quanterix has been a trusted partner to the scientific community for nearly two decades. In 2025, Quanterix acquired Akoya Biosciences, The Spatial Biology Company, adding multiplexed tissue imaging with single-cell resolution to its portfolio. Together, the combined company offers a uniquely integrated platform that connects biology across blood and tissue—advancing precision medicine from discovery to diagnostics.

ROLE SUMMARY:

The Employee Engagement Leader is responsible for supporting the employee connection, and overall workplace experience. This role partners closely with HR peers and cross-functional teams to support engagement initiatives aligned to company values, business priorities, and culture goals.

This role blends strategy with execution, leveraging data, feedback, and organizational insights to create measurable improvements in the employee life cycle.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Support a comprehensive employee life cycle strategy aligned to organizational goals
• Lead engagement surveys and analyze results
• Identify trends, themes, and actionable insights
• Partner with HR team to develop targeted action plans
• Track and report progress against engagement and retention metrics
• Support change management during periods of transformation
• Evaluate key employee lifecycle moments Partner with Talent/L&D, and HRBPs to enhance growth opportunities
• Support initiatives that improve workload balance and wellbeing
• Lead Talent recruitment cycle partnering with HRBPs and hiring manager and positive employee experience
• Partner with HRBPs to support positive onboarding, including streamlining orientation process and support with facilitation
• Support Culture initiatives

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in employee engagement, culture, HR, or Recruiting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong data analysis skills and ability to translate insights into action
• Experience leading engagement surveys and action planning
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders
• Experience in high-growth, transformation, or post-integration environments preferred

EXPECTATIONS, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Agility & Flexibility: Adapts quickly to shifting priorities, emerging data, and evolving business needs, maintaining effectiveness in a fast-moving life sciences environment.
• Team-Centered Mindset: Builds strong relationships, promotes teamwork, and supports collective success by anticipating needs and removing obstacles for leaders and teams.
• Innovative Problem Solver: Applies creative and practical thinking to improve processes, streamline communication, and introduces more efficient ways of working.

WHY YOU'LL LIKE WORKING WITH US:

Our Technology:

From discovery to diagnostics, Quanterix's ultrasensitive biomarker detection is fueling breakthroughs only made possible through its unparalleled sensitivity and flexibility. Simoa technology has delivered the gold standard for earlier biomarker detection in blood, serum or plasma, with the ability to quantify proteins that are far lower than the Level of Quantification (LoQ). Our industry-leading precision instruments, digital immunoassay technology and CLIA-certified Accelerator laboratory have supported research that advances disease understanding and management in neurology, oncology, immunology, cardiology, and infectious disease.

Akoya Biosciences, a Quanterix company, is The Spatial Biology Company—bringing tissue context to life through high-resolution, single-cell imaging. Akoya's spatial phenotyping platforms help researchers visualize and measure how cells organize and interact within tissue to influence disease progression and therapeutic response. From discovery through clinical research, Akoya offers a full continuum of solutions, including PhenoCycler, PhenoImager Fusion and HT, and PhenoCode Panels. As part of Quanterix, Akoya complements a leading portfolio of ultra-sensitive biomarker detection technologies, together enabling a more complete view of biology and disease across both tissue and blood.

Our Commitment to Employees:

At Quanterix, our values are based on: Team, Innovation, Customer and Owner.

Team: Challenge assumptions, not the person. Respect diversity of thought and hold ourselves to lofty standards

Innovation: Stay curious, experiment, create and change

Customer: Prioritize and celebrate these pioneers by doing our best to deliver on commitments

Owner: Act with high integrity and in the best interest of Quanterix. Take measured risks and learn from their success and failures.

We reward and recognize our employees by offering competitive compensation and a 401k plan with employer match, as well as competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents. We also offer an unlimited vacation policy to all exempt employees, and a generous PTO policy for non-exempt employees. All employees are eligible for equity, employee stock purchase plan, a performance bonus, and 1:1 financial counseling/planning. We also offer Tuition Assistance. We have a free, state-of-the-art onsite fitness center for all employees. To keep you fueled up, we provide onsite employees free snacks and drinks every day

DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE:

Quanterix is committed to a Diverse and Inclusive workplace. We strive to recruit candidates who will bring inclusive mindsets and contribute to our values.

Quanterix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Quanterix will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.