⚡ tl;dr

1. Help us get more promising new treatments into the market. We’re currently supporting many of the most-promising new interventions for depression & anxiety.
2. Start by working directly with a cofounder to solve the greatest immediate problems across the marketplace. Eventually transition into building out our data team.
3. Own a number of high-impact data science initiatives across the marketplace: how might we systematize supply-demand balancing; which patients should clinics call first; etc.
4. Join a rapidly growing company (we’ve ~10x’d in the past 3 quarters) while we’re still just a tight-knit team of ~27.
5. Work with a product team where everyone writes their own queries, and as a result where Data’s role is to provide them leverage (via better infra, models, etc etc).

🧬 Let's accelerate medical innovation

At Power, we're making clinical trials easy to navigate for all patients.

Today, patients look to promising medical research when standard treatments have failed them. Unfortunately, there is no single source of truth that patients can understand and trust. The status quo is a government run website which is written in complex medical jargon that is impossible for most people to navigate.

At the same time, clinical trials are the bottleneck on medical innovation—new medicine takes almost 10 years to test and over 86% of all clinical trials are delayed because they can't find enough patients. This is one of the biggest problems facing the life science industry.

Power is the easiest way for patients to access promising new studies. Thus helping more patients find treatments and speeding up the progress of medical research as we go.

🏹 The role

We’re looking for our first data hire at Power. Up until now, we’ve operated without a data team by ensuring the product org is able to write their own queries. While this worked well as an early stage company, as we continue to scale we’re professionalizing the data function in order to ensure we’re learning as much as we can, as fast as we can. Plus, many of the most-impactful product surface areas today are ones where a deeper data science lense would help.

To this end, the most important piece of this role is working closely with Power’s cofounders to ensure our product teams have a complete grasp of key insights: both by directly contributing to our most-important analyses, and by building systems that better enable other users to self-serve.

From there this role could lean one of few ways:

1. You could scale into a Head of Data role and build out a team here.
2. You could lean further into Data Engineering and build a deep expertise here.
3. You could shift your focus further towards product, and eventually be a key contributor within the product org.

🤔 Some of the problems we'll be working on

We don't believe in strict job requirements, but if these problems sound fun and familiar, you're probably well suited for this gig:

1. Building our ranking system that recommends which patient a clinic should call next.
2. Refining the algorithm we use to allocate paid spend across geographies & disease areas.
3. Elevating our current systems for balancing supply and demand across the marketplace.
4. Conducting a ‘magic moment’ analysis to determine what makes sites on our platform successful
5. Challenging our thinking re: the best possible outputs & leading indicators for us to be monitoring across each of our product streams
6. Codifying user segments in our analysis, such that we can quickly understand which user-groups are best served by new features.
7. Analyzing gaps in ‘self-reported’ and ‘EMR-reported’ patient attributes, to better understand which questions our patients can reliably answer.
8. Building intuitive views for our demand-side and patient-side user segments, so that our team can analyze feature-product fit across segments.

🎯 About you

• You’ve spent a considerable part of your professional life analyzing data. You’re probably intimately familiar with SQL and either Python or R.
• You’re energized by the process of ‘finding out’: you take real pleasure in uncovering novel insights & shaping your colleagues’ understanding of the world.
• You’re exceptional at communicating data: you’re able to imagine intuitive reports & to distill down key findings in a way that non-technical team members can understand.
• You’ve demonstrated the ability to contribute strategically, by translating discoveries into recommendations for the broader business.
• You’re wholly comfortable both leading your own analysis and maintaining your own tooling + data stack. This autonomy is something you’re excited about, not something that’s daunting.
• You can drive projects independently or work in a highly collaborative, x-functional manner. You naturally balance speed, craft, and business goals.

🌟Nice to haves

• You have a personal connection to the space: much of our team has close family or friends who’ve interacted with clinical research from the patient perspective.
• You have a deep familiarity with marketplace businesses, clinical research, or health tech more broadly.
• You’ve led data teams of a larger scale, and will be able to help us see around corners.
• You have some other ‘spike’ or unique strength that would round us out! We’re always looking for complementary skills & experiences.
• You like to dive into the lit in your personal life — whether it be for sleep, nutrition, supplements, or something else entirely.

🔎 The product

Power is the most patient-friendly marketplace resource for clinical trials.

• Comprehensive: we make it easy to search across every trial in North America so patients never feel like they have blind spots
• Simple: we apply a healthy amount of data engineering and empathy to the reams of unstructured medical data on clinical trials to simplify things for patients that are trying to evaluate potential trials
• Connected: we help patients proactively reach out to the researchers directly and researchers love connecting with motivated patients

✉️ If this sounds like your kind of adventure

We'd love to hear from you.

Email bask@withpower.com

In lieu of a cover letter, tell us about something you've built that you're proud about! Bonus points if it’s a Loom video with a screenshare walking us through the product and code!

🔎 FAQ

What is the culture like at Power?

Our team rallies around five values: urgency, selflessness, agency, obsession, and “these values will change”. To this last point, prior to our Series A we were focused on ‘pragmatism’ rather than ‘obsession.’

“How do I know if Power is too (early / late)-staged for me?”

While we clearly have product market fit, we’re still much building out large parts of the business. This means that Power is probably too early for you if you’re hoping to primarily follow a script, facilitate an existing process, or look for a series of 5% wins in any given domain.

That said, as we cross 20 people, we’ve reached a point where no one is doing everything anymore. As a result Power is probably too late for you if you don’t have a craft you’re excited to continue to perfect.

Where are you located? What's your approach to remote work?

This role will be located in our SF office. Our San Francisco team is in office 4-5 days a week (Wednesdays are flexible).

Outside of this, we've budgeted for quarterly team off sites over the course of the next year, as we believe work is more fun when you have a deep personal relationship with your colleagues.

What are the requirements? Do I need certain years of experience, or a background in healthcare?

We have no 'formal' experience requirement, but think it's important that our earliest team members are highly autonomous.

Inversely, if you're at a point in your career where active mentorship is very important to you, this role likely isn't a fit for you.

How is the work life balance?

We trust team members to manage their own schedules and believe that taking time off to recharge makes you more productive in the long run.

That said, we’re early enough that everyone’s work makes a big difference on the company’s trajectory. As a result, our team finds hard work fulfilling when we know it will be impactful.

Typically, we check out around 6pm to protect family time and then log-in later to finish anything that was left undone.

How are you funded?

Happy to share specifics but we've raised a large Series A from top investors. We've intentionally raised enough such that we have time to get from our current clear signs of product market fit to sizeable scale.

How does your interview process work?

This depends on the role, but roughly there are two stages. Initially meet with one or two members of your peers, and another with one or both founders. We try to move quickly on decisions so as not to waste anyone’s time.

“Do you have benefits?”

Yes!

“What’s your vacation policy?”

Unlimited. In practice, people tend to take ~1-2 weeks in the summer, and ~1-2 weeks in the winter.