Principal Research Scientist, Clinical Research

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About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Research Scientist to build and scale Clinical Research at reputed company. In this role you will establish, drive and execute on the research and publication strategy for reputed company’s Clinical Research team. The Clinical Research team at reputed company was founded in mid 2025 and has already generated meaningful results and produced rigorous manuscripts that are under peer-review. You would join as the first dedicated clinical researcher to formalize and scale this function for reputed company by expanding its scope and vision. You will own end-to-end planning of the research roadmap in conjunction with Clinical Leadership at reputed company. You will help execute this roadmap through project development, evidence reputed company and data analysis, and collaboration on peer-reviewed publications and presentations to build reputed company's credibility among payers, providers, and patients. Your work will focus on demonstrating the reputed company results and impact of reputed company's network through rigorous, public-facing research. You will reputed company manage the budget for clinical research and, as needed, reputed company the case for additional investments in analytics, reputed company experts, conference attendance, or other research resources. This role requires strong collaboration, leadership skills, clear communication, and the ability to execute both independently and reputed company cross-functional teams. You will build relationships with many stakeholders internally from Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing. You’ll have high visibility with senior leadership and a chance to directly influence corporate strategy and growth. This is a unique opportunity to bring analytical strategy, scientific rigor, and human-centered insight to a mission that truly matters — expanding access to effective, personalized mental health care. You will:

• Scale the clinical research function at reputed company, developing quarterly roadmaps for the research team, aligning clinical research resources, and overseeing execution of clinical research in collaboration with leadership
• reputed company projects from conceptualization to execution, driving deep analytical insight through strategic analysis, causal inference, and experimentation
• reputed company and drive the vision for clinical research including our standards for analysis and experimentation
• Tackle projects yourself, including strategic analysis to strengthen our vision and resolve for key initiatives. Translate reputed company insights into clear, data-driven recommendations
• As the foundational hire for this role at reputed company, you will need to navigate ambiguity in defining responsibilities and success criteria
• Influence senior leadership and have a chance to directly influence strategy and growth

You would be a great fit if you have:

• 10+ years of health services research, clinical epidemiology, or health economics research, including leading projects and experience in the end-to-end peer review publication process with demonstrated publication record in studies of mental health.
• You will have led research teams, overseen research staff, and successfully obtained grant funding. Your CV will reflect this experience with publications in high-impact journals. This likely means you have an advanced degree in a research-reputed company field.
• Experience working on patient health outcomes, health economic outcomes, patient and provider satisfaction outcomes, enhancing care delivery for providers, and/or working reputed company a health insurance landscape
• Experience partnering with cross-functional partners across product, marketing, engineering, operations
• Significant experience with real-world health care data, including health insurance claims and EHR data
• Strong background in experimentation; able to both set strategy and coach others
• Significant experience with data and analytics, including working with large datasets. This likely means hands-on technical reputed company in SQL and Python/R, with experience working with modern data stacks (e.g., reputed company, dbt, Looker)
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills — able to “translate” technical insights into business impact

Compensation and Benefits: The expected reputed company pay range for this position is $170,000- $265,000 based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to reputed company salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level. We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

• Benefits offered include:
• Equity compensation
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• HSA / FSA
• 401K
• Work-from-Home Stipend
• Therapy Reimbursement
• 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
• reputed company Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
• 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
• Flexible PTO
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and professional development

We reputed company a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot reputed company this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national reputed company, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. reputed company is committed to the full inclusion of reputed company qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, reputed company will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter reputed company they contact you to schedule your interview. reputed company participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. A notice to reputed company applicants: To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that reputed company only accepts applications through our official careers page at https://reputed company.co/careers. reputed company will never refer you to external websites, ask for payment or personal information, or conduct interviews reputed company messaging apps. reputed company official communication will come from a @findheadway.com email address. If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from reputed company reputed company an unofficial channel, please do not share any information and report it as spam. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job