Senior Researcher

Based in San Francisco, Arine is a rapidly growing healthcare technology and clinical services company with a mission to ensure individuals receive the safest and most effective treatments for their unique and evolving healthcare needs. 

Frequently, medications cause more harm than good. Incorrect drugs and doses costs the US healthcare system over $528 billion in waste, avoidable harm, and hospitalizations each year. Arine is redefining what excellent healthcare looks like by solving these issues through our software platform (SaaS). We combine cutting edge data science, machine learning, AI, and deep clinical expertise to introduce a patient-centric view to medication management, and develop and deliver personalized care plans on a massive scale for patients and their care teams.

Arine is committed to improving the lives and health of complex patients that have an outsized impact on healthcare costs and have traditionally been difficult to identify and address. These patients face numerous challenges including complicated prescribing issues across multiple medications and providers, medication challenges with many chronic diseases, and patient issues with access to care. Backed by leading healthcare investors and collaborating with top healthcare organizations and providers, we deliver recommendations and facilitate clinical interventions that lead to significant, measurable health improvements for patients and cost savings for customers. 

Why is Arine a Great Place to Work?:

Outstanding Team and Culture - Our shared mission unites and motivates us to do our best work. We have a relentless passion and commitment to the innovation required to be the market leader in medication intelligence.

Making a Proven Difference in Healthcare - We are saving patient lives, and enabling individuals to experience improved health outcomes, including significant reductions in hospitalizations and cost of care.

Market Opportunity - Arine is backed by leading healthcare investors and was founded to tackle one of the largest healthcare problems today. Non-optimized medications therapies which cost the US 275,000 lives and $528 billion annually.

Dramatic Growth - Arine is managing more than 18 million lives across prominent health plans after only 4 years in the market, and was ranked 236 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list and was named the 5th fastest-growing company in the AI category.

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Researcher with a pharmacist background to bring clinical judgement and insights to our HEOR Team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in identifying and quantifying opportunities for our clients to improve the health of their member populations and reduce the total cost of care, and you will ensure that every recommendation aligns with clinical best practices.

As a clinical subject matter expert on the HEOR Team, you will bring your pharmacy experience to the analysis of secondary data to assess opportunities for optimizing medication use at scale. Your primary output will be the generation of high-impact reports containing strategic recommendations for clients, including health insurance plans and risk-bearing provider groups. You will also be responsible for communicating these findings to internal stakeholders across the HEOR, Data Science, Clinical Pharmacy, and Executive teams.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Analyze Prescribing Patterns: Leverage pharmacy expertise to assess existing patterns of prescription medication use within health care claims and Electronic Health Record (EHR) datasets. Design and independently conduct exploratory analyses.
• Identify Opportunities for Population Health Improvements: Identify and quantify opportunities for clinical improvements that optimize medication therapy for client member populations.
• Evaluate Program Impact: Evaluate the impact of our programs on clinical and economic outcomes (e.g., medication adherence, costs, utilization, etc.).
• Serve as Clinical Expert: Serve as the go-to resource for clinical thinking on the HEOR Team, ensuring all data-driven findings align with clinical best practices and pharmacy standards.
• Validate Data Integrity: Take ownership of data quality by validating claims data and proactively addressing any issues or anomalies identified during the analysis process.
• Collaborate on deliverables: Partner closely with the Director of HEOR and other HEOR team members to deliver accurate, insightful analyses for our clients by translating results into key deliverables tailored to different healthcare audiences (e.g., slide decks, reports, etc.).
• Interface with Stakeholders: Act as a key clinical liaison, communicating findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders across the HEOR, Data Science, Clinical Pharmacy, and Executive teams.
• Drive Process Improvement: Contribute proactively to continuous process improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the team's deliverables.

Who You Are and What You Bring:

• Clinical training: An advanced degree from an accredited college or university is required to provide the necessary clinical foundation for this role, including Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Doctor of Medicine (MD).
• Clinical Subject Matter Expertise: Demonstrated ability to recommend evidence-based medication plans and determine clinically appropriate substitutions to improve patient outcomes or equivalent outcomes at lower cost.
• Analytical Background: 1+ years of experience working directly with secondary healthcare data, specifically claims or EHR datasets.
• Hands-on Data Proficiency: Extensive experience working with spreadsheet data in Excel or a similar tool. 
• Strategic Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical data insights into actionable clinical strategies for clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
• Independent & Proactive: A self-starter who is comfortable working independently and approaches challenges as a proactive problem solver. Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Commitment to Quality: A detail-oriented mindset with the ability to validate data integrity and ensure clinical recommendations align with industry best practices.

Nice to have:

• Demonstrated ability to write SQL code to extract data and generate the underlying analytic files required for population-level outcomes research.
• Experience writing Python scripts or R scripts to manipulate and clean complex healthcare datasets and to conduct analyses.
• Prior experience working in managed care, pharma, and a high-growth health tech or start-up environment.

Remote Work Requirements:

• An established private work area that ensures information privacy
• A stable high-speed internet connection for remote work
• This role is remote, but you will be required to come to on-site meetings multiple times per year. This may be in the interview process, onboarding, and team meetings

Perks:

Joining Arine offers you a dynamic role and the opportunity to contribute to the company's growth and shape its future. You'll have unparalleled learning and growth prospects, collaborating closely with experienced Clinicians, Engineers, Software Architects, and Digital Health Entrepreneurs.

The posted range represents the expected salary for this position and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, benefits, and perks. Ultimately, the final pay decision will consider factors such as your experience, job level, location, and other relevant job-related criteria. The salary range for this position is: $145,000-165,000/year.

Job Requirements:

• Ability to pass a background check
• Must live in and be eligible to work in the United States

Information Security Roles and Responsibilities:

All staff at Arine are expected to be part of its Information Security Management Program and undergo periodic training on Information Security Awareness and HIPAA guidelines. Each user is responsible to maintain a secure working environment and follow all policies and procedures. Upon hire, each person is assigned and must complete trainings before access is granted for their specific role within Arine.

Arine is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are treated with fairness and respect. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our hiring decisions and employment practices are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join us in our mission.

Check our website at https://www.arine.io. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing start-up revolutionizing the healthcare industry!

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