Associate Director, Epidemiology

About N-Power Medicine

N-Power Medicine aims to establish a new paradigm in drug development by reinventing the ‘how’ and transforming clinical trials through better integration with clinical practice, ensuring broader participation by physicians and patients. We are building an exceptional multi-disciplinary team with diverse expertise spanning healthcare, engineering, technology and regulatory, and with people who share our core value of Empowering Community through generosity, curiosity and humility.  We are working with urgency to bring better therapies to patients faster. 

Position Overview

N-Power Medicine integrates demographic, clinical and molecular data across a network of large health systems. N-Power Medicine’s vision is to combine prospective and retrospective data  originating from both prospective and retrospective sources, including human-based abstraction as well as direct EMR ingestion, to enable the next generation of external controls, for faster and more efficient clinical trials. The epidemiology group at N-Power Medicine is an important contributor to these efforts across data capture, data standardization and normalization, data analysis, product development, and clinical trial study support. Epidemiology plays a critical role in supporting our health system and life science partners, as well as our product portfolio.

As the Associate Director of Epidemiology, you’ll interact with a diverse team to drive the development of external control arms, data insights in our products, research studies, and publications.

This position is remote within the United States.

Role Objectives and Responsibilities

-Design, implement, interpret, report and publish the results of retrospective and prospective observational research studies that demonstrates the utility of real-world data (RWD) for life sciences and health system customers

-Support the development of N-Power Medicine’s data platform and assets, including specification of data models and clinical nomenclature/coding requirements to efficiently harmonize real-world data with clinical trials data standards, such as Clinical Data -Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)

-Contribute to developing N-Power Medicine’s real-world evidence generation platform, in alignment with the company’s by-protocol, prospective real-time registry data 

-Collaborate with internal partners (Clinical Science, Commercial, and Network Partners) to develop the company's strategic partnerships with life sciences and health systems

-Collaborate with internal partners (Clinical Science, Commercial, and Network Partners) to  develop the data requirements to support N-Power Medicine’s next-generation External Controls methodology and product offerings

-Help translate the perspectives and requirements of FDA and regulatory agencies around external controls to inform N-Power Medicine's data capture/collection and platform requirements

-Ask the right scientific questions, ideate and make recommendations on fit-for-purpose data and analytics solutions 

-Stay current with novel data analysis methods for observational data, in particular Causal Inference and its applications to clinical trials

Education, Experience, Behavioral Competencies, & Skills

-12+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, 8+ years of experience with a Master’s Degree and 5+ with a PhD in epidemiology

-Graduate degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics or Related field, PhD with an emphasis in epidemiology preferred

-Knowledge of RWD study design and execution

-Experience with data analysis, specifically from observational study designs 

-Experience with epidemiological, registry, EMR, and/or claims data

-Experience using R, Python, SQL or similar and a highly technical acumen

-Experience summarizing data and disseminating insights to multi-disciplinary audiences

-Experience with managing budget, timelines, and relationships with key stakeholders, including Lifescience partners and other strategic collaborators.

-Confident in presenting the NPower brand in scientific conferences and other professional forums.

-Understanding of drug development, regulatory requirements and processes

-You are a doer, self motivated, and driven

-Comfortable within a growth stage environment

-Effective scientific communication; written and verbal

-Cancer expertise, strong publication history, and teaching/mentoring experience is preferred

-Generous, Curious, and Humble

Travel Requirements 

Up to 15% of time required to travel in role (out of 100%)

Pay Information

The expected salary range for this position is $165,000 and $248,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. N-Power Medicine (NPM) offers equity at hire as well as a discretionary annual bonus which may be available based on Company performance. This position is eligible for company benefits. 

More About Us:

We are a mission-driven, well-funded, rapidly growing company, eager to attract passionate professionals offering a highly attractive compensation package with a balanced and flexible work environment, competitive industry benefits as well as a 401K plan and other great company “perks.”

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Covid-19 Policy –  The Company is committed to providing and maintaining a safe workplace, and to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees, families, visitors, and the community. While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary. We currently do not have mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements for our employees and contractors, as the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. However, there are certain N-Power Medicine employees and contractors who, based on their role, will be required to continue to follow our 2021 COVID-19 vaccination and other requirements as mandated by N-Power Medicine’s partners they serve. We reserve the right to modify or amend our corporate policy at any time.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.