⚡ 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. Join a rapidly growing company (we've ~5x'd in the past year) while we're still just a tight-knit team of ~30.
3. Work directly with a cofounder as a true generalist — parachute across the product org to wherever the highest-leverage problem happens to be that week.
4. Take on special projects end-to-end: analyze data to surface product opportunities, build systems that support our growth & operational processes, and run deep-dives into specific features & flows.
5. Most of our team is very-senior (7+ years experience), but we're open to individuals who are earlier in their career for this role!

🧬 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 a generalist to take on special projects across our product org.

Up until now, much of this work — the one-off analyses, the scrappy internal tooling, the deep-dives into a flow that isn't quite working — has been picked up off the side of various people's desks. We're now at a point where we have enough surface area that we'd benefit from someone whose entire job is to bounce around and parachute into whatever matters most.

This is a deliberately broad role. In a given month you might analyze data to identify a new product opportunity, build a system to support a growth or operational process, deep-dive into a specific feature or flow to figure out why it's underperforming, run a batch of user tests, or automate an outreach or internal process that's currently manual.

You'd report directly to a cofounder, take on high-leverage work across different systems in the product org on day one, and we'd expect the shape of the role to evolve as you find the places where you create the most leverage. If you're drawn to building a wide map of the business — rather than going deep on a single surface area, at least to start — this is a great fit.

🤔 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. Analyze data to identify product opportunities: dig into our marketplace data to surface where we're leaving enrollment, retention, or efficiency on the table — and turn those findings into concrete product bets.
2. Build systems to support growth & operational processes: stand up the internal tooling, automations, and lightweight systems that let our growth & ops teams move faster without adding headcount.
3. Deep-dive into specific features & flows: take a flow that isn't converting the way it should — say, patient prescreening or site activation — and own the investigation end-to-end, from instrumentation to recommendation.
4. Run user testing: get directly in front of patients, nurses, and investigators to pressure-test what we're building, and feed what you learn back into the roadmap.
5. Automate outreach & internal systems: find the manual, repetitive work happening across the product org and replace it with something that scales.

🎯 About you

• You're a generalist at heart: you're energized by the idea of bouncing across very different problems, and you get up to speed in a new domain quickly.
• You're scrappy and high-agency. You're comfortable being handed an ambiguous problem with little structure, and you instinctively move toward shipping something rather than waiting for direction.
• You're technical enough to be dangerous — you can write your own queries to dig into data, and you're comfortable standing up lightweight systems & automations yourself.
• You translate what you find into action. Whether it's an analysis, a user-test readout, or a deep-dive, stakeholders leave with a clearer view of the world — and a clear next step — not a longer reading list.
• 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?

Power was born as a remote first team, and will always be open to senior individual contributors anywhere in the world.

That said, we're increasingly moving towards a two-hub model:

• Most of our high-collaboration roles (product, design, biz ops, customer ops) will be hired in San Francisco moving forward.
  • Our San Francisco team is in-person 4-5 days a week (Bask & Brandon will be in-person ~every day).
• We'll continue to build a strong engineering team in-and-around Toronto and Canada.

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 the spirit of agency, we trust our team to hit their commitments and take the time off to reset as needed. In practice, people tend to take ~1-2 weeks in the summer, and ~1-2 weeks in the winter.