Senior HEOR Director, Real-World & Economic Value

WHOOP; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

WHOOP in Boston seeks a Director of Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) to define and execute a strategy that translates clinical performance into measurable value for employers, payers, government and enterprise partners.

You will lead real-world evidence analyses, build cost-effectiveness and ROI models, collaborate across Clinical Science, Data Science, Regulatory, Legal and Commercial teams, and ensure our economic claims are rigorous and compliant.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Health Economics, Outcomes Research, Public Health, Health Policy, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, or related quantitative field.
• 8+ years of experience in HEOR, real-world evidence, or health economics within digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, or healthcare technology.
• Demonstrated experience building cost-effectiveness, budget impact, or ROI models (hands-on modeling experience required).
• Experience integrating economic endpoints into clinical study design and collaborating with clinical research teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise, payer, or government-facing evidence discussions.
• Strong quantitative skills with large healthcare or real-world datasets.
• Ability to operate cross-functionally in fast-paced environments with product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders.
• Experience with wearable-derived data, digital biomarkers, or decentralized/remote health technologies preferred.
• Experience supporting SaMD programs or regulated product environments preferred.
• Proficiency in statistical and modeling tools (R, Python, SAS) and data warehouses (Snowflake) preferred.
• Experience publishing peer-reviewed economic or real-world evidence research preferred.
• Experience building HEOR capability within scaling organizations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead WHOOP’s HEOR strategy, aligning economic and outcomes evidence generation with regulated product pipelines, enterprise initiatives, and expansion.
• Leverage WHOOP’s longitudinal member data to design and execute real-world evidence analyses showing health impact, productivity gains, and value.
• Design and build cost-effectiveness, budget impact, and ROI models quantifying economic impact for employers, payers, and government stakeholders.
• Develop real-world evidence frameworks to assess longitudinal health, utilization, and productivity outcomes.
• Analyze large-scale datasets including wearable-derived biomarkers and engagement metrics for population-level impact.
• Lead the development of enterprise-ready value dossiers and evidence packages to support commercial engagements and government contracting.
• Collaborate with Clinical Science, Regulatory Affairs, Data Science, Product, Legal, and Commercial teams to ensure economic claims are scientifically sound and compliant.
• Embed economically meaningful endpoints into validation studies to support value modeling and enterprise use cases.
• Establish processes for documenting assumptions, modeling logic, and version control for defensibility and audit-readiness.

Skills

HEOR strategy

RWE analyses

cost-effectiveness modeling

ROI modeling

cross-functional collaboration

data analysis

wearable data analytics

regulatory/compliance

statistical programming

SaaMD knowledge

Education

Master’s or PhD in Health Economics/Outcomes Research/related field

Tools

R

Python

SAS

Snowflake

Job description

WHOOP in Boston seeks a Director of Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) to define and execute a strategy that translates clinical performance into measurable value for employers, payers, government and enterprise partners.

You will lead real-world evidence analyses, build cost-effectiveness and ROI models, collaborate across Clinical Science, Data Science, Regulatory, Legal and Commercial teams, and ensure our economic claims are rigorous and compliant.