Senior Research Scientist

Summary

Join Aledade as a Senior Research Scientist to guide intervention strategy and development, evaluate population health interventions' impact, and utilize innovative methods to address critical business questions. You will design and conduct analyses using diverse data sources, collaborate across teams, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. The ideal candidate possesses a strong healthcare analytics background, understands population health strategies, and is passionate about impacting primary care. This role involves leading analysis projects, supervising junior colleagues, and communicating results effectively to drive strategic decision-making. Aledade offers a collaborative, inclusive, and remote-first culture with comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience
• Advanced degree may substitute for some experience

Responsibilities

• Identify analysis priorities: Lead efforts with teams across Aledade and external partners to proactively identify and clarify important strategic and tactical questions for data analysis and experiments
• Design and execute analysis projects: Design and lead descriptive, predictive, and/or causal inference statistical analyses for large scale projects and complex program areas
• Design and program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources
• Perform data analysis and statistical modeling to generate actionable insights and solutions
• Supervise junior colleagues in programming and model implementation for large scale projects
• Translate and communicate analysis results: Form strategic and tactical recommendations for leaders across Aledade teams based on evidence
• Lead efforts across teams to synthesize results from complex analyses, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action
• Lead and supervise development and presentation of analytic products that accurately communicate insights from the data and inspire action

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in statistics, mathematics or computer science
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• Experience with Medicare Advantage or MA STARs performance
• 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