Science Operations Leader: Strategy & Delivery

Datavant; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant, a data collaboration platform for healthcare, seeks a Head of Science Operations to partner with the CSO and Science Leadership Team in translating the Science Team vision into clear priorities and impact. You will lead strategic planning, resource management, and cross-functional coordination to align science delivery with business goals.

The role requires strong scientific judgment, leadership across complex initiatives, and the ability to communicate decisions and priorities across

Responsibilities

• Lead Science Team strategy and priority setting.
• Partner with CSO and Science Leadership Team to define annual and quarterly priorities.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear plans, milestones, ownership, and measures of success.
• Serve as an active member of the Science Leadership Team.
• Manage operations: meeting agendas, decisions, action tracking, and follow-through.
• Propose services delivery resourcing for Leadership Team confirmation.
• Raise cross-functional risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Ensure decisions and priorities are communicated consistently across the Science organization.
• Develop an integrated view of services delivery performance, product science support, services pipeline, product roadmap, staffing, utilization, quality, and client outcomes.
• Coordinate Science Team input for commercial strategy and product roadmap prioritization.
• Identify group-level performance risks and develop options for addressing them.
• Coordinate with Finance and Commercial leaders on pipeline forecasts, and lead capacity model build and maintenance.
• Track time and manage tracking of studies and publications.
• Lead selected change initiatives across the Science organization.
• Support Science Team budget management (conference and client meetings, software licensing, etc.).
• Manage full team meetings, such as drafting agendas and slides, securing external speakers, etc.
• Prepare presentations and decision documents for the CSO.
• Represent the CSO in internal meetings and ensure follow-through.

Job description

Datavant, a data collaboration platform for healthcare, seeks a Head of Science Operations to partner with the CSO and Science Leadership Team in translating the Science Team vision into clear priorities and impact. You will lead strategic planning, resource management, and cross-functional coordination to align science delivery with business goals.

The role requires strong scientific judgment, leadership across complex initiatives, and the ability to communicate decisions and priorities across