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Sr. Clinical Researcher
Lyra HealthUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Sept 2025
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About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is the leading provider of mental health solutions for employers supporting more than 20 million people globally. The company has delivered 13 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
Lyra is at the forefront of increasing access to evidence-based, effective mental health services on a large scale. Lyra has developed innovative blended models of coaching and psychotherapy that combine leading clinical expertise with routine outcomes monitoring and engaging clinical digital tools. Lyra’s Clinical Research team has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers showing the impact and value of Lyra’s programs and innovative clinical product, across coaching, therapy, and medication management. One of Lyra’s core values is to Follow the Science. Ignoring the science has been a problem for mental health. Lyra is committed to following the best clinical evidence. We are guided by facts, certain that quality matters, and committed to publishing our results. We don’t ignore the data.
About the RoleLyra is looking for a Sr. Clinical Researcher to help us evaluate the effectiveness and impact of Lyra’s various mental health and well-being services using clinical research. You would serve as a subject matter expert on the state of clinical practice and research in mental health to internal stakeholders, including clinical product, data science, and marketing teams. You would help generate ideas for novel research, leveraging clinical outcome measures and product utilization data. You would conduct statistical analyses and contribute to write-ups of research efforts, including submitting to peer-reviewed publications as an author or co-author. You would support broader efforts around science communication for external non-science partners, such as customers, benefits consultants, and the broader workforce well-being community.
You will be a member of a highly skilled, fun, efficient, and collaborative team with an established track record for conducting, evaluating, and publishing peer-reviewed research on clinical outcomes for Lyra’s programs. In this role, you will work closely with other clinical researchers, health economists, psychologists, and data scientists. By evaluating clinical programs that reach millions of clients, your work will help create meaningful positive change on a large scale. Your work will also directly impact the broader field of digital mental health by setting an industry standard for excellence in clinical research.
Lyra Health is the leading provider of mental health solutions for employers supporting more than 20 million people globally. The company has delivered 13 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
Lyra is at the forefront of increasing access to evidence-based, effective mental health services on a large scale. Lyra has developed innovative blended models of coaching and psychotherapy that combine leading clinical expertise with routine outcomes monitoring and engaging clinical digital tools. Lyra’s Clinical Research team has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers showing the impact and value of Lyra’s programs and innovative clinical product, across coaching, therapy, and medication management. One of Lyra’s core values is to Follow the Science. Ignoring the science has been a problem for mental health. Lyra is committed to following the best clinical evidence. We are guided by facts, certain that quality matters, and committed to publishing our results. We don’t ignore the data.
About the RoleLyra is looking for a Sr. Clinical Researcher to help us evaluate the effectiveness and impact of Lyra’s various mental health and well-being services using clinical research. You would serve as a subject matter expert on the state of clinical practice and research in mental health to internal stakeholders, including clinical product, data science, and marketing teams. You would help generate ideas for novel research, leveraging clinical outcome measures and product utilization data. You would conduct statistical analyses and contribute to write-ups of research efforts, including submitting to peer-reviewed publications as an author or co-author. You would support broader efforts around science communication for external non-science partners, such as customers, benefits consultants, and the broader workforce well-being community.
You will be a member of a highly skilled, fun, efficient, and collaborative team with an established track record for conducting, evaluating, and publishing peer-reviewed research on clinical outcomes for Lyra’s programs. In this role, you will work closely with other clinical researchers, health economists, psychologists, and data scientists. By evaluating clinical programs that reach millions of clients, your work will help create meaningful positive change on a large scale. Your work will also directly impact the broader field of digital mental health by setting an industry standard for excellence in clinical research.
Responsibilities
- Develop research ideas, generate proposals, assess feasibility of ideas, and execute on research ideas to generate research products, including peer-reviewed papers
- Conduct analyses using different databases with utilization and clinical outcomes data
- Inform clinical product development, including the selection of patient-reported outcome measures and other metrics of usability, feasibility, and effectiveness
- Serve as subject matter expert on mental health, workforce well–being and the value of Lyra’s services for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring communications reflect the state of the science
- Stay up to date on current research literature and analytical methods in digital mental health, clinical research, and workforce well-being.
- Conduct literature reviews to meet the needs of cross-functional team members, generating summary documents to communicate results and recommendations
Qualifications
- PhD in clinical psychology, health services/outcomes research, mental health, or closely related field (e.g., behavioral science, implementation science) that focuses on strong pragmatic research methods and statistics within mental health.
- 5+ years post-PhD experience required, with at least some non-academic industry experience
- Experience executing research studies with a variety of study designs and data types, including retrospective data, longitudinal designs, cohort studies, and other pragmatic research designs
- Experience as primary lead on long-term research projects from start to finish with multiple collaborators and cross-functional stakeholders
- Extensive experience publishin
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