Director, Product Science

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Ensure the scientific integrity and rigor of Datavant Life Sciences’ real-world evidence and data discovery initiatives.

• Lead the conceptualization of scientific agents, including articulating the necessity of an agent and its intended audience.

• Define scientific problem statements, agent tasks, and parameters.

• Design scientific workflows, including subject matter expert (SME) review and decision points, reference sets, and agent context.

• Design and implement scientific evaluations.

• Define and carry out internal testing requirements for scientific purposes.

• Leverage domain knowledge and real-world evidence expertise to create agents and agent systems for scientific tasks.

• Prepare scientific submissions for product and roadmap governance review, including evaluation sets and metrics for agent performance.

• Act as the subject matter expert on non-agentic scientific workflows pertinent to agent systems.

• Lead scientific customer delivery for co-building, co-developing, and co-designing partnerships with pharmaceutical and data ecosystem clients.

• Ensure the scientific quality of contracted and delivered work, including customer-specific agentic RWE workflows, standard operating procedure (SOP) applications, agent development, and evaluation.

• Contribute to thought leadership in agentic AI through blogs, webinars, and presentations at scientific meetings.

• Support go-to-market teams by translating customer and competitor insights and identifying market signals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate or master’s degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, or a related discipline.

• Professional research experience in real-world evidence, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), or a closely related field: a minimum of 3 years post-doctorate or 6 years post-master’s degree for the Director role.

• Strong proficiency in observational study design, healthcare data, and analytical methods.

• Capability to drive progress across cross-functional product teams, manage competing priorities, resolve challenges in scientific and product delivery, and negotiate scope and timelines.

• Experience managing or providing matrix leadership to colleagues, including coaching and offering substantive feedback: at least 1 year for the Director role.

• Exceptional scientific writing and communication abilities.

• Extensive experience with various types of healthcare data utilized in real-world evidence research and familiarity with analytical tools or evidence generation platforms such as R, Python, and Substantiate.

• Experience in scientific judgment, strategic problem-solving, and leading complex initiatives across scientific, technical, commercial, and operational functions.

• Experience in developing scientific standards, study templates, quality processes, or methodological guidance.

• Experience representing an organization as a subject matter expert in workshops, webinars, and professional forums.

• Demonstrated record of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or other external scientific contributions.

• Experience utilizing AI tools such as agents or large language models (LLMs) for scientific work products and fluency in basic AI terminology.

• This position is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards strategy.

• Post-offer health screenings and vaccinations as required by clients.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

• Equal employment opportunity protections.