Engagement Associate

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, R Programming

Job Description

Acorn AI is one of the largest AI companies exclusively dedicated to life sciences. It’s built on Medidata’s platform that includes the industry’s largest structured, standardized and growing clinical trial data repository consisting of 17,000+ trials and 4.5M patients. Our team is composed of over 40 PhD/Masters statisticians, data scientists, analytical product leads, former FDA biostatisticians and computational genomicists.

Your Mission

• Work cross-functionally to gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, and communicate recommendations on some of the most complex issues in the industry today
• Develop external communication materials, translating and summarizing technical information for business audiences and developing key messaging
• Perform and share analyses to guide internal and external decision making
• Drive problem-solving with data scientists and other stakeholders to identify the analytics needed to answer client questions and generate impact in line with our mission
• Track and communicate progress and decisions clearly, triage issues to the appropriate internal stakeholder and ensure timely effective issue resolution
• Create processes so that each project is easier and faster than the last one
   

Your Competencies:

• Outstanding structured and critical thinking
• A passion for understanding complex issues with a data driven approach
• A technical bent and the ability to use tools to answer key questions (e.g. R/SQL/Python)
• Ability to synthesize analytical insights and process issues, and effectively communicate them to mid-to-senior level internal and external stakeholders
• Can drive forward even amidst ambiguity (people, process, data) and complexity
• Strong project management and a relentless drive to get things done
• An entrepreneurial drive and comfort with experimenting and iterating on different ways to solve a problem

Your Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of work experience in one of the following types of highly structured or scientific environments: management/healthcare consulting, life sciences, data and analytics role
• Outstanding structured and critical thinking
• A passion for understanding complex issues with a data driven approach
• A technical bent and the ability to use or to learn to use tools to answer your own questions (e.g. R/SQL/Python)
• Strong project management and a relentless drive to get things done
• Ability to synthesize analytical insights and process issues, and effectively communicate them to mid-to-senior level internal and external stakeholders
• Willing to master the detail when you need to but also zoom out and have a view on how to shape the bigger picture
• An entrepreneurial drive and a passion to advance the development of new treatments
• Enjoy experimenting and iterating on different ways to solve a problem
• A strong analytical background and the ability to quickly digest and evaluate complex analyses with a keen eye for detail
• Experience working in Life sciences or across the healthcare value chain
• Can drive forward even amidst ambiguity (people, process, data) and complexity