Senior Healthcare Survey Methodologist

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, partnering with a leading AI research organization, seeks experienced healthcare market researchers to design, program, and review physician and patient surveys for pharmaceutical insights. The role combines rigorous survey design with therapeutic-area knowledge, working across oncology, gastroenterology, neurology, and respiratory indications to ensure clinically accurate instruments.

You will collaborate with therapeutic-area experts, translate objectives into questionnaires, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research.
• Hands-on experience developing or fielding surveys involving physicians, patients, HCPs, or other healthcare stakeholders.
• Strong command of questionnaire design and survey methodology.
• Understanding of physician research considerations such as specialty screening, patient-volume qualification, treatment pathways, and clinical terminology.
• Experience with patient surveys and concepts such as diagnosis history, treatment experience, symptoms, quality of life, adherence, and patient journey research is valuable.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical market research, commercial insights, medical affairs research, or related life-sciences environments.
• Experience with platforms such as Qualtrics, Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, or similar tools is helpful but not required.
• Excellent written reasoning and ability to provide precise methodological feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and refine physician and patient survey instruments for pharmaceutical and healthcare research.
• Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires.
• Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, question wording, response scales, survey flow, branching/skip logic, and overall instrument structure.
• Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions.
• Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physician, specialist, PCP, and patient audiences.
• Review survey length, respondent burden, ordering effects, recall requirements, and potential sources of measurement bias.
• Assess whether questions will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data.
• Incorporate pharmaceutical and healthcare market-research conventions into survey design.
• Collaborate with therapeutic-area specialists to ensure questions are clinically accurate and appropriately framed.
• Where qualified, independently review both the research methodology and therapeutic-area content of an instrument.
• Provide clear written explanations and actionable recommendations for survey improvements.

Skills

Healthcare market research

Survey methodology

Pharmaceutical insights

Tools

Qualtrics

Decipher/Forsta

Alchemer

SurveyMonkey

Job description

Mercor, partnering with a leading AI research organization, seeks experienced healthcare market researchers to design, program, and review physician and patient surveys for pharmaceutical insights. The role combines rigorous survey design with therapeutic-area knowledge, working across oncology, gastroenterology, neurology, and respiratory indications to ensure clinically accurate instruments.

You will collaborate with therapeutic-area experts, translate objectives into questionnaires, and