About Loyal

Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company developing drugs intended to extend the lifespan and healthspan of dogs. In other words, our mission is to help dogs live longer, healthier lives.

We’ve already achieved significant milestones on our path to gaining FDA approval for the first lifespan extension drug for any species. We have three products in our pipeline and are on track to bring the first product to market in 2025.

Loyal is a well-funded startup in growth mode. Our team includes scientists, veterinarians, engineers, operators, and creatives. This role will play a key role in supporting our growth strategies.

 

About the role

Loyal is approaching the projected launch of our first product. We’re seeking a Biostatistician to work closely with our statisticians, scientists and regulatory personnel to design and analyze studies for regulatory submissions and publications.

Your work will be an instrumental part of the drug approval process. Your work designing, analyzing, and reporting on our preclinical and clinical trials will be used to support FDA submissions for drug approval, and commercialization.

This role is for someone who has a masters in statistics or a related field. The ideal candidate should be comfortable analyzing and presenting results from both clinical trial and observational studies, performing sample size and power calculations, and manuscript writing. 

You will be reporting to our Senior Statistician - Jess Graves.

Your daily work will include:

• Working closely with senior statisticians, biologists, and clinicians to perform statistical analyses for preclinical and clinical investigations
• Supporting experimental design using simulation- and equation-based power and sample size analyses
• Applying a variety of statistical analysis techniques to our studies, including survival analysis, longitudinal/mixed effects modeling
• Contributing to documentation that is sent to regulatory agencies, including study protocols, field study reports, statistical analysis plans and data package documentation
• Collaborating with data engineers and clinical research teams to advise on data collection and database infrastructure 
• Sharing scientific results for internal meetings/presentations, manuscripts, or poster sessions and conference presentations
• Assisting in endpoint and/or assay development through exploratory data analysis and modeling

About you: 

• MS in statistics, biostatistics, or a related field
• 2+ years of relevant experience as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry (or medical research)
• Experience designing, powering, and analyzing preclinical and clinical studies 
• Comfort with the following statistical techniques: generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis (mixed effects models), survival analysis, simulation and formula based power analyses
• Proficiency in R (or python) and version control (git) experience
• Experience with reproducible report writing (e.g., quarto, RMarkdown, or Jupyter notebooks)
• Experience writing for regulatory submissions as well as for academic publications 
• Able to communicate/interpret complex statistical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Understanding of basic concepts of aging biology 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work in dynamic, cross-functional teams 
• Familiarity with Google Workspace applications (e.g., Sheets, Slides, etc.)

Loyal benefits:

• Full-coverage health insurance — medical, dental and vision — for you and your dependents
• $1,000 home office equipment stipend
• $1,200/year learning budget for books, courses, etc.
• $250/month wellness budget for gym, cleaners, spa, food, etc.
• All 3-day weekends are turned into 4-day weekends 🎉
• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays
• Paw-ternity leave — adopt a dog and get a day off with your new family member 🐶
• Annual company retreat at beautiful locations across the country (recently: Tahoe, Cape Cod)
• Competitive salary
• Company equity options grant for new hires

Salary range:  $105K - $120K

Loyal is founded and led by a first-gen female CEO and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against applicants based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. 

Our values

Lean into moonshots

We don’t settle for incremental change. We have the bravery to take risks and shoot for the impact we want to have.

Opportunity is at the intersection

We lean into combining disciplines, expertises, and perspectives not normally adjacent. We design our organization to facilitate cross-pollination and cross-collaboration. We reject silos.

Expertise without ego

Titles do not determine who has a voice. We work on hard, technical problems and have a ton of fun while at it.

Learning by doing

Our path is novel and many things we are doing have never been done before. We lean into MVPs and are open to unexpected outcomes.

Lead with context

We value leading with context. We equip people with the context and background necessary to make their own decisions and act in the best interest of Loyal. We empower teams to succeed.

Empathy and respect for all life

Our patients are not just numbers. Our work is intentional, thoughtful, and guided by respect for life. We take our responsibility to pets and pet parents seriously.