Senior Product Scientist

Datavant

New York (NY)

Remote

USD 140,000 - 175,000

Full time

41 hours ago

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Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Senior Product Scientist to help design and deliver advanced scientific agents within its real‑world evidence workflows. You will work with the Director of Product Science to ensure methodological rigor and credibility for pharma and data ecosystem customers.

You will contribute to agent conceptualization, study design, SME reviews, and evaluation, using your epidemiology expertise and fluency in AI-enabled research tools to drive high-quality scientific outputs.

Qualifications

Master’s or doctoral degree in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health, biostatistics, or related analytic field.
Experience using healthcare data to conduct pharmacoepidemiology, HEOR, or real‑world evidence (RWE) research.
Strong scientific writing and communication skills; ability to draft protocols and reports.
Experience leveraging AI tools (agents or LLMs) for scientific work products.

Responsibilities

Conceptualize scientific agents and define their scope within RWE workflows.
Design studies, draft protocols, and document methodological decisions.
Lead SME reviews and ensure scientific credibility of agent outputs.
Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to implement studies.
Evaluate agent performance and report findings clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Scientific writing

Critical thinking

Communication skills

AI tools familiarity

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s or Doctoral degree in epidemiology/biostatistics/public health

Tools

R/Python coding

Substantiate or similar analytic platform

Job description

Datavant and Savant Bio Partner to Deliver End-to-End Clinical Record Retrieval and Abstraction for High-Fidelity Real-World Data.

Senior Product Scientist

8485 Remote - United States Full-time regular

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavant builds the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

What We’re Looking For

The Senior Product Scientist serves as a contributing member of multiple product pods building and deploying scientific agents across the real-world evidence (RWE) study workflow. The Senior Product Scientist partners with the Director of Product Science to ensure the scientific credibility and rigor of Datavant Life Sciences’ real‑world evidence and data discovery agents. The Senior Product Scientist works as a contributing member of and responsible party within the product pods to ensure agent conceptualization, development, and evaluation meet the needs of Datavant’s scientific customers and the scientific standards of the Datavant science team. Specifically, the Senior Product Scientist works within product pods (e.g. algorithm builder, explore assistant) and with the Director of Product Science to deliver on the following in a responsible and/or supporting role:

Scientific agent conceptualization (e.g. why is the agent needed? and for whom?)
Scientific problem statement
Agent task and bounds
Scientific workflow design & subject matter expert (SME) review/decision points
Scientific reference set and agent context
Scientific evaluation design and application
Scientific internal testing requirements and execution

The scope of this role includes agents built to complete scientific tasks requiring domain knowledge and expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and RWE as well as agent systems such as end-to-end RWE study agents. As a SME working within the product pods and zones, the product scientist contributes to the scientific submissions product/roadmap governance, including eval sets, agent performance metrics, etc. The role also serves as a SME on the scientific workflows relevant to the agent/agent system.

The Product Scientist serves as the study lead for the scientific delivery of agent co‑build/co‑development/co‑design partnerships with Datavant’s pharma and data ecosystem customers. In this role, the Product Scientist is responsible for embedding scientific standards and SME into the build and delivery of the contracted scientific work, which may include the design of customer‑specific agentic RWE workflows, application of those workflows to customer SOPs, design and development of customer‑specific agents for RWE tasks across the workflow, and evaluation of those agents.

What You Need to Succeed

Master’s or doctoral degree in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health, biostatistics, or a related analytic field. Candidates with a master’s degree should have at least 2 years of professional research experience for Senior Scientist consideration or 4 years for Associate Director consideration.
Experience using healthcare data to conduct pharmacoepidemiology, HEOR, or real‑world evidence (RWE) research.
Knowledge of feasibility assessment, observational study design, data analysis, and the principled application of research methods to generate RWE.
Ability to design studies, draft protocols, document methodological decisions, and work with research and analytics colleagues to implement studies.
Strong scientific writing and communication skills, including the ability to prepare protocols, results presentations, and reports; interpret findings; and explain study strengths and limitations.
Strong critical thinking, organization, attention to detail, and commitment to scientific quality
Experience leveraging AI tools (agents or LLMs) for scientific work products and fluency in basic AI terminology

What Helps You Stand Out

Experience with multiple types of healthcare data used in pharmacoepidemiology or HEOR.
Proficiency with R/Python coding, an evidence generation platform such as Substantiate, or other relevant analytic tools.

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We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is: $140,000 — $175,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case‑by‑case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy‑related medical conditions, and/or religion.

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Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. With a mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable, Datavant works with payers, providers, life sciences, legal and insurance clients globally to accelerate insights. Datavant enables more than 60 million healthcare records to move between thousands of organizations across the healthcare ecosystem, more than 80,000 hospitals and clinics, 75% of the 100 largest health systems, and 350+ real‑world data partners. Datavant has office locations in Boston, New York and San Diego, with international offices in Barcelona and Galway.

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