Senior Research Analyst

Summary

Join Aledade as a Senior Research Analyst and contribute to innovative Medicare Advantage and Quality programs. You will leverage diverse data sources to conduct analyses, generate actionable insights, and support program improvements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate findings into impactful actions and develop analytic products. This role requires strong analytical skills, experience with healthcare data, and proficiency in statistical programming. Aledade offers a comprehensive benefits package including flexible work arrangements, health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience. Advanced degree may substitute for some experience
• Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R or Python for statistical programming
• Experience with healthcare data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, electronic health record, event notification, clinical, and patient reported data, and working in a complex enterprise data warehouse

Responsibilities

• Understand the problem space: Work with teams across Aledade and external partners to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments
• Design and execute analyses: Design descriptive, predictive, and/or causal inference statistical analyses to answer key business questions
• Design and program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources
• Perform data analysis and statistical modeling to generate actionable insights and solutions
• Support junior colleagues in programming and model implementation
• Translate and communicate analysis results: Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action
• Lead development of analytic products that accurately communicate insights from the data and inspire action
• Work closely with engineering and other product partners to enable analytic solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters in statistics, mathematics or computer science
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports
• Attention to detail, particularly with version control (e.g. Git), quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities
• Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
• Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
• Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
• Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
• Experience with causal inference methods including designing and/or conducting experimental and quasi-experimental studies (e.g., randomized trials; regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and matched designs)
• Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
• Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
• Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
• Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
• Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
• Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) with up to 4% match
• Stock options