Senior Research Analyst (Permanent Remote)

Our Impact Analytics team is responsible for providing rigorous analyses to develop, inform, and evaluate company strategy and operations, including projecting and explaining performance, prioritizing company work, and testing the effectiveness of company initiatives. As an analytics team embedded in the larger product organization at Aledade, we work cross-functionally with technical, engineering, and clinical innovation teams to put analytic products and results into action at scale across the Aledade network.
We are seeking a Senior Research Analyst to join the Impact Analytics subteam responsible for supporting Aledade Plus, the team responsible for building a next generation, technology-enabled care delivery business through clinical innovations served directly to patients. The Senior Research Analyst will support new pilots and scaled innovations with analyses that leverage rich data sources including national Medicare claims, other payer claims, electronic health records, and event notification data. They will work cross-functionally with partners across the product organization to surface insights on program performance and support recommendations for improvement. 
The ideal candidate will have a background in healthcare analytics, an understanding of population health strategies, an ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and a commitment to Aledade’s mission of having direct impact on primary care practices and patients, and contributing to an evidence-driven organization. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R, Python, or Stata for statistical programming
• Experience with healthcare data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, electronic health record, event notification, clinical, and patient reported data, and working in a complex enterprise data warehouse
Preferred KSA’s
• Masters in statistics, mathematics or computer science
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Attention to detail, particularly with version control (e.g. Git), quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
• Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
• Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
• Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
• Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
• Experience with causal inference methods including designing and/or conducting experimental and quasi-experimental studies (e.g., randomized trials; regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and matched designs).
• Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes

Responsibilities:

• Executing analysis (e.g., descriptive, predictive) to identify opportunities to improve care delivery and contribute to innovative population health product development.
• Working across teams at Aledade and with external partners to design field experiments, including randomization and quasi-experimental approaches. Monitor study implementation and data collection. Execute rapid cycle data analyses.
• Working across teams at Aledade to identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action. Develop analytic products and data visualizations that communicate insights from the data and inspire action. Work closely with engineering and other product partners to enable analytic solutions.
• Presenting analysis results to internal and external audiences, including company executives, product development and ACO operations teams, and clinical staff at Aledade and in our partner practices.

Who We Are:Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network