Senior Translational Scientist

Full Time, Remote (U.S.)

Our vision is to make mental health radically accessible.

We are a team of innovators, experts and business builders who have come together to develop advanced technologies that can transform healthcare. 

We’re focused on addressing the vast, unmet need for improved engagement and outcomes in mental health with Woebot, a digital coach that helps people engage more deeply and continuously in their mental health. Woebot's breakthrough is its ability to form a human-level bond with people using the latest in NLP, ML and other advanced technologies. Leveraging this therapeutic bond, and the expertise of our Stanford-trained clinicians and scientists, Woebot is constantly learning from the experience of more than one million people and hundreds of millions of messages exchanged to deliver high quality CBT-based therapeutic tools that are psychologically related and responsive to a person’s dynamic state of health.

Our work to advance human-centered technology has attracted a lot of attention. Today we’ve amassed more mentions in the scientific literature than any other digital therapeutic company, and are regularly featured as the architects of a radically new approach to mental health. But we’ve only just begun. With the backing of some of the world’s most forward thinking investors ad a new round of funding complete, we’re poised to redefine how people access mental health care. 

Are you ready to create a new future for mental health, for everyone? Let's do it together!

How You’ll Thrive

Within 1 month you will:

• Develop a working understanding of the structure, design, and content within Woebot today
• Contribute to the planning and execution of Discovery projects
• Conduct reviews of user transcripts to become familiar with Woebot interactions
• Contribute to the implementation and evaluation of new features and content in Woebot

Within 3 months you will:

• Lead at least 1 Discovery project that provides clear business value to Woebot
• Provide clear and actionable guidance to the product development team for at least 1 new feature 
• Assist in the design of at least 1 research study or project with clear hypotheses and metrics for success and learning
• Propose at least 1 new idea for discovery based on advances in clinical science and/or health technology

Within 6 months you will:

• Lead and execute on multiple Discovery projects
• Disseminate project and research results internally for maximizing business value
• Demonstrate a track record of successful and productive cross-functional collaboration
• Facilitate implementation of multiple new features into Woebot
• Provide at least 1 strategic direction for future Discovery and research
• Help enable at least 1 Commercial/Business Development opportunity or partnership

Within Year 1 you will:

• Be an integral part of Discovery at Woebot, regularly identifying new ideas based on data or new science and leading execution of projects
• Be adept at bridging discovery and implementation by having help guide the development of several features informed by Discovery projects
• Be actively contributing to evidence generation and research at Woebot, including study design, data inference, and scientific dissemination 

Key Responsibilities

What you’ll own:

• Translating the latest clinical science into Discovery projects 
• Ensuring that product features and content are clinically sound and rigorous
• Providing clear and actionable product guidance for implementation of new therapeutic features

What you’ll collaborate on:

• Discovery project conception, prototype development, and testing
• Implementation of product features and therapeutic principles into Woebot

What you’ll add to the team: 

• History of effective collaboration with a cross-functional product development team
• Experience with hypothesis generation and testing and/or rapid prototyping and iteration
• Understanding of mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety and associated treatments

What you’ll get to learn:

• Clinical workflow implementation and integration
• Experience developing a digital therapeutic subject to regulatory oversight

Role Specific Competencies

Required

• PhD in clinical science, clinical psychology, neuroscience, or related field
• Demonstrated expertise with research methods