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