Director Epidemiology

### Overview Located in California’s Silicon Valley, [Verantos](https://himalayas.app/companies/verantos) is the global leader in high-validity real-world evidence at scale. By applying artificial intelligence to the complete patient record, [Verantos](https://himalayas.app/companies/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](https://himalayas.app/companies/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 Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)