🧬 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 to bring on our first full-time product hire at Power, outside of our cofounders. Up until now we’ve had team members lean-in off the side of their desk to help drive decision making in the domains they’re closest to. We’re now at a point where we have enough surface area, and market pull, that we could use another dedicated product team member.

Right now, we’re primarily hoping to bring on someone to take lead on our clinic & researcher product. These users leverage Power to recruit for clinical trials they’re helping to facilitate, and are coming to us through a mix of product led growth & top-down partnerships with pharma. You’ll have the chance to get intimately familiar with the nurses and investigators at these facilities, and to shape the strategic priorities for this crucial half of our marketplace.

Up until now, we’ve been focused of having Power be the best possible patient channel for any one of their studies. Today, the process of bringing an out-of-practice patient in for screening can be slow and laborious, so we’ve worked hard to start automating what we can — from insurance validation to medical record collection & parsing. Our ambition here, which maybe you’ll decide is the wrong one, is to make it as easy to enroll a patient from outside one’s clinic as it is to enroll a patient that they’re already treating.

Over the coming months, we’ll also begin to shift our focus towards supporting these clinics across all of their studies. This next phase will require us to better support research team & trial expansion. All of which to say that in addition to core product work, this role will have opportunities to focus on product-led growth.

🤔 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. Productizing the prescreening process, eventually moving towards an on-platform booking experience at clinics.
2. Driving intra- and inter- clinic expansion, to ensure we’re able to best-match patients to promising clinical trials.
3. Building a deep understanding of the different clinic personas that leverage Power, from small independent clinics to large academic medical centers.
4. Working to optimize clinic activation, such that we’re delighting and retaining the largest possible portion of researchers.

🎯 About you

• You’ve spent a considerable part of your professional life building product.
• You love driving your own user research: you’re excited to get deeply familiar with the research nurses using our tool.
• You have a track record of driving impact through strategic contribution, and are comfortable balancing impact across disparate user groups and time horizons.
• You’ve worked on early stage products, where you’re looking for step-function outcomes rather than incremental wins, and find this autonomy energizing rather than 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 been a founder in a past life, or have led larger product teams, 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).

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.