Lyra Health is looking for a Sr. Clinical Researcher to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of Lyra’s various mental health and well-being services using clinical research.
Requirements
- Experience executing research studies with a variety of study designs and data types, including retrospective data, longitudinal designs, cohort studies, and other pragmatic research designs
- Experience as primary lead on long-term research projects from start to finish with multiple collaborators and cross-functional stakeholders
- Extensive experience publishing on clinical outcomes research, including 10+ peer-reviewed publications (5+ as first author)
- Expert knowledge of clinical outcome measures, including patient reported outcomes like the PHQ-9 or GAD-7
- Ability to generate datasets using queries, conduct statistical analyses, and maintain documentation using common statistical languages (e.g., R, SQL, Python) and platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Github, Jupyter notebooks)
- High comfort with technology, and a willingness to learn new tech tools
- Interest in and/or experience with the integration of AI into mental health care
Responsibilities
- Develop research ideas, generate proposals, assess feasibility of ideas, and execute on research ideas to generate research products, including peer-reviewed papers
- Conduct analyses using different databases with utilization and clinical outcomes data
- Inform clinical product development, including the selection of patient-reported outcome measures and other metrics of usability, feasibility, and effectiveness
- Serve as subject matter expert on mental health, workforce well–being and the value of Lyra’s services for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring communications reflect the state of the science
- Stay up to date on current research literature and analytical methods in digital mental health, clinical research, and workforce well-being.
- Conduct literature reviews to meet the needs of cross-functional team members, generating summary documents to communicate results and recommendations
Other
- PhD in clinical psychology, health services/outcomes research, mental health, or closely related field (e.g., behavioral science, implementation science) that focuses on strong pragmatic research methods and statistics within mental health.
- 5+ years post-PhD experience required, with at least some non-academic industry experience
- Excellent scientific and non-scientific verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated through independent composition or presentation of research briefs, conference proceedings, webinars, blogs, or white papers
- Openness to exploring new ideas and learning quickly in new areas
- Flexibility to respond to constant change, feedback, and improvement in a fast-paced environment
