Director, Epidemiology

<p><strong>Overview</strong></p> <p>Located in California’s Silicon Valley, Verantos is the global leader in high-validity real-world evidence at scale. By applying artificial intelligence to the complete patient record, Verantos enables life sciences organizations to generate high-validity evidence across therapeutic areas with measured accuracy, completeness, and traceability. Credible evidence accelerates clinical development, market access, medical affairs, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory initiatives.</p> <p>Verantos believes that advanced RWE requires a group of dedicated and highly-trained professionals who are specialists in the field. Our team consists of physicians, data scientists, clinical researchers and engineers with a deep knowledge of, and extensive experience in, protocol development, health system engagement, electronic health record integration, de-identification, artificial intelligence, data enrichment, study implementation and validity assessment. In addition, we have vast experience within the healthcare ecosystem, including pharma, payer, provider, and regulatory.</p> <p><strong>Position Scope and Location&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>You will work on advanced RWD/RWE projects with innovative biopharma companies and health systems to advance clinical research by leveraging our technology and expertise. Priorities include customer-facing and writing capabilities.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Major Responsibilities</span></p> <p>→ Develop content required for execution and publication on projects that make significant contributions to science</p> <ul> <li>Lead the development of protocols, statistical analysis plans, and requirements documents</li> <li>Lead the development of abstracts and manuscripts related to studies, methods, and other efforts</li> </ul> <p>→ Engage with key internal and external stakeholders</p> <ul> <li>Coach and facilitate awareness of the appropriate use, timing, and implementation of epidemiologic methods and statistical techniques</li> <li>Manage scientific discussions within customer and prospective customer meetings</li> <li>Communicate significant scientific information to a variety of audiences</li> </ul> <p>→ Execute scientifically-advanced projects</p> <ul> <li>Demonstrate creative thought in applying methodological solutions that take advantage of advanced data sources and technologies</li> <li>Leverage project management, product, and engineering resources to ensure timely deliverables</li> <li>Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide scientifically sound and efficient solutions to execution challenges</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Position Requirements and Experience</span></p> <p><strong>Required</strong></p> <ul> <li>Doctoral degree in epidemiology</li> <li>At least 5 years of professional experience within a pharmaceutical firm or working with pharmaceutical firms\</li> <li>Excellent writing skills</li> <li>Excellent verbal communication including the ability to interact with customers</li> <li>Experience in the design, execution, and analysis of observational research</li> <li>Creative intelligence, including a willingness to develop new methodologies that take advantage of a modern real-world evidence infrastructure using curation and data linkage</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience working for a data vendor, preferably a company specializing in electronic health record data</li> <li>Experience working within an innovative growing startup company, including comfort with this culture</li> <li>Experience performing at least one study using electronic health record unstructured data and artificial intelligence technologies</li> <li>Record of publications in observational research</li> <li>Clinical degree</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal and Professional Characteristics</span></p> <ul> <li>Meticulous</li> <li>Technology savvy</li> <li>Execution oriented</li> <li>Collaborative</li> <li>Communicative</li> </ul>