The posting
Senior Research Analyst
Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’ s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.
Truveta was born in the Pacific Northwest, but we have employees who live across the country. Our team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid model and working from anywhere. In person attendance is required at least once per year for an onsite meeting.
For overall team productivity, we optimize meeting hours in the pacific time zone. We avoid scheduling recurring meetings that start after 3pm PT, however, ad hoc meetings occur between 8am-6pm Pacific time. #LI-remote
Who We Need
Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. Beyond core capabilities, we are seeking problem solvers, passionate and collaborative teammates, and those willing to roll up their sleeves while making a difference. If you are interested in the opportunity to pursue purposeful work, join a mission-driven team, and build a rewarding career while having fun, Truveta may be the perfect fit for you.
This Opportunity
Truveta is seeking a motivated and results-driven Senior Research Analyst to join Truveta Research. Truveta Research is an internal research organization focused on demonstrating what’s possible with Truveta by producing high-interest, high-quality, trusted research. In this role, you will collaborate closely with a broad set of disciplines, including communications, marketing, engineering, product, and fellow researchers to advance what is possible with healthcare data. You will have the opportunity to work with an extensive, high-quality dataset of real-world Electronic Health Records (EHR), encompassing over 130 million patients. You will transform complex datasets into impactful insights and share the results with the world using writing, data visualization, and oral presentations.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead end-to-end research studies, including literature review, study design, analysis plan development, data analysis, results interpretation, and dissemination of findings.
- Write and maintain data analysis code to process, wrangle, and analyze data, along with documentation detailing analyses performed.
- Write reports, conference abstracts, and manuscripts to showcase research methods and outputs for a variety of audiences.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, communicate project status and timelines to key stakeholders, and learn quickly to be able to efficiently produce research outputs across a variety of clinical areas.
- Work collaboratively with communications, marketing, clinical researchers, product and engineering teams to drive project success.
- Represent researcher input by providing feedback on the development of research solutions that enable clinicians and researchers to address real-world healthcare challenges.
Required Skills
- Education: Master's degree in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, health services research, data science, or related quantitative discipline.
- Data analytics and applied statistical methods: 3+ years of hands-on experience with statistical programming in R and/or Python, with experience executing analysis plans intended for publication, particularly within the health sciences. Experience with statistical programming and knowledge of time-series analyses, survival analyses, and longitudinal data analyses.
- Scientific publication or scientific writing: 3+ years of experience developing research publications or other scientific writing; including peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference abstracts, or blogs.
- Cross-functional collaboration: 3+ years of experience partnering with cross-functional teams and effectively communicating research findings and needs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Self-starter: Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment within cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality projects under tight deadlines.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of effectively conveying project status and timelines as well as complex research outputs to scientific and non-scientific audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Therapeutic area expertise: Experience conducting clinical, epidemiologic, health outcomes, or real-world evidence research in cardiology and/or neurology. Publication or presentation experience in these therapeutic areas is preferred.
- Education: PhD in biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, health services research, data science, or related quantitative discipline.
- Scientific publications: 2+ publications (can include conference abstracts), at least 1 as first author.
- Translational science communication: Experience translating scientific findings into written content for non-technical audiences, including blogs, white papers, reports, or other educational materials.
Why Truveta?
Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.
We Offer:
- Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage
- Great benefits package
- Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans
- 401K plan
- Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning
- Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Generous parental leave
- Regular team activities (virtual and in-person)
- The base pay for this position is $158,000 to $175,000. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.
Please note that all applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer as we are unable to sponsor work visas or permits (e.g. F-1 OPT, H1-B) at this time. We appreciate your interest in the position and encourage you to explore future opportunities with us.
