Director, Epidemiology

Overview

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.

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.

Position Scope and Location

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.

Major Responsibilities

→ Develop content required for execution and publication on projects that make significant contributions to science

Lead the development of protocols, statistical analysis plans, and requirements documents

Lead the development of abstracts and manuscripts related to studies, methods, and other efforts

→ Engage with key internal and external stakeholders

Coach and facilitate awareness of the appropriate use, timing, and implementation of epidemiologic methods and statistical techniques

Manage scientific discussions within customer and prospective customer meetings

Communicate significant scientific information to a variety of audiences

→ Execute scientifically-advanced projects

Demonstrate creative thought in applying methodological solutions that take advantage of advanced data sources and technologies

Leverage project management, product, and engineering resources to ensure timely deliverables

Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide scientifically sound and efficient solutions to execution challenges

Position Requirements and Experience

Required

Doctoral degree in epidemiology

At least 5 years of professional experience within a pharmaceutical firm or working with pharmaceutical firms\

Excellent writing skills

Excellent verbal communication including the ability to interact with customers

Experience in the design, execution, and analysis of observational research

Creative intelligence, including a willingness to develop new methodologies that take advantage of a modern real-world evidence infrastructure using curation and data linkage

Preferred

Experience working for a data vendor, preferably a company specializing in electronic health record data

Experience working within an innovative growing startup company, including comfort with this culture

Experience performing at least one study using electronic health record unstructured data and artificial intelligence technologies

Record of publications in observational research

Clinical degree

Personal and Professional Characteristics

Meticulous

Technology savvy

Execution oriented

Collaborative

Communicative