Verana Health

Work at Verana Health

Innovation in healthcare is hindered by the time and cost of bringing new products to market. Verana is partnering with medical associations, physicians, and industry to build a regulatory-grade data platform for healthcare innovation that utilizes specialty clinical data sets. Our goal is to accelerate the availability of better treatments for patients, and we are bringing together the most brilliant minds in healthcare, data science, and technology to accomplish this.

Interested in joining our team? Please submit your resume to jobs@veranahealth.com

We are looking for an experienced data scientist with a background in health data analytics to
help us with data interpretation, cleaning, modeling, queries, and visualization.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the clinical and technology teams to translate clinical investigation
    questions into detailed data analytics requirements.
  • Implement retrospective clinical studies to generate RWE insights and to answer
    customer questions.
  • Organize clinical data relationships to create a data model and classification hierarchy.
  • Examine physician notes and design a model to transform and extract structured data.
  • Design visualization reports to represent data analytics results in a meaningful way.

Qualifications

  • Strong familiarity with health data analytics tools, especially SQL, Python, Pandas.
  • Experience with health data modeling, curation and bio-statistics.
  • Familiarity with clinical data sets and coding systems such as ICD, CPT and RxNorm.
  • Familiarity with pharmaceutical company business processes, including clinical trials,
    new drug introduction and clinical operations.
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional business and technical teams.
  • Have excellent drafting, negotiation and very clear communication skills.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities and attention to detail.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com

We seeking an experienced Compliance and Privacy Officer to join our Legal team. This newly created role reports directly to the General Counsel, and will be responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of the daily operations of the compliance program, with a particular focus on privacy, HIPAA and regulatory agency requirements. In addition, the Compliance and Privacy Officer functions as an internal consultant on special projects or initiatives, providing technical and regulatory guidance to all departments in accordance with applicable regulations and standards. S/he will work cross-functionally to assess compliance gaps and identify solutions. This is an exciting opportunity for a sophisticated Compliance and Privacy professional to be part of a rapidly growing organization at the forefront of healthcare and technology. The ideal candidate will take on new challenges and opportunities with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm. S/he will have an eye for detail and be a strong project manager, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously. In order to be successful, the Compliance and Privacy Officer will know which questions to ask to accurately analyze complex situations and uncover root causes of difficult problems. S/he will quickly gain the trust and support of all stakeholders and work collaboratively across the organization to achieve objectives and problem-solve. Additionally, the incoming Compliance and Privacy Officer will need to step up to address difficult issues and will demonstrate confidence under pressure, handling and managing crises effectively and calmly.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation and maintenance of the company’s privacy policies and programs in accordance with applicable laws.
  • Build a strategic and comprehensive privacy program, including appropriate policies and procedures, to enable consistent, effective data privacy practices; to minimize privacy risk; and to ensure the confidentiality of protected health information. Ensures privacy forms, policies, standards, and procedures are up-to-date and compliant with laws applicable to the organization.
  • Provide technical and regulatory guidance to all departments on compliance and privacy matters to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
  • Participate in workgroups that address both clinical and non-clinical internal activities to meet any regulatory, contractual, internal or other requirements.
  • Collaborate with the Information Technology (IT) department to ensure alignment between security and privacy compliance programs including policies, practices, investigations; acts as a liaison to the IT department.
  • Maintain current knowledge of applicable global data privacy and security laws and accreditation standards.
  • Work with senior management to establish a cross-functional Privacy Committee and serve in a leadership role for the Privacy Committee’s activities.
  • Driving education of compliance and privacy, training and orientation for all employees, temporary employees, and contractors.
  • Establishes and administers a process for receiving, documenting, tracking, investigating and taking action on all complaints concerning privacy policies and practices; investigates and evaluates suspected breaches, sends notification letters to patients when required, and submits required reports to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Reports to the outside agencies timely in accordance to the law; Provides remediation and training to mitigate privacy breaches.
  • Work closely with the General Counsel in directing and supervising compliance in audit and review activities to ensure satisfactory completion and to minimize compliance risk.
  • Assist in preparation of audit, compliance, risk and quality updates for the Compliance Committee, Board committees and Board meetings.

Qualifications

  • Law degree and/or Master’s degree in regulatory/healthcare compliance preferred.
  • At least 10 years’ experience in the privacy profession, including time in or advising pharmaceutical companies on healthcare privacy related activities.
  • In-depth knowledge of global privacy laws related to the pharmaceutical industry.
  • In-depth knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and business environment for the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Experience with building and implementing a global privacy program.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within an organization with senior leaders.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com

We are seeking a Corporate Counsel, Commercial to join our expanding Legal team. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will provide hands-on legal counsel to all levels of the organization, be responsible for identifying and analyzing legal issues, drafting key documents (master services agreements, statements of work, strategic alliance agreements, partnership agreements, business associate agreements, service level agreement terms, teaming agreements and other contracts), presenting clear recommendations, and ensuring legal compliance. Must have strong drafting skills and experience with a variety of healthcare industry and technology industry concepts. The position will involve regular interaction with sales and commercial colleagues and various levels of company management.

Responsibilities

  • Provide legal support for Verana’s commercial activity with a focus on negotiating and
    drafting MSAs with a focus on SaaS and related services transactions in the healthcare
    industry as well as related agreements including BAAs and SOWs.
  • Become a company resource for contract related questions and processes.
  • Advise management on compliance with applicable corporate policies and procedures, and a
    wide range of legal, regulatory and compliance matters, including FDA regulations, False
    Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, OIG guidance, marketing strategies, sales compensation,
    government reimbursement, and interactions with healthcare professionals.
  • Work cross functionally with various departments to meet business objectives.
  • Develop and maintain updated template agreements that reflect Verana’s new and evolving
    products and services.

Qualifications

  • JD Degree and member and in good standing of any State Bar.
  • A minimum of five years of health care transactional experience, preferably in the health care
    law department of a reputable law firm with emphasis on anti-kickback, HIPAA, and other
    Federal healthcare and fraud and abuse laws and regulations; experience with general
    business contracting; experience with a pharmaceutical manufacturer or health care provider
    a plus.
  • Transactional experience with SaaS agreements, Business Associate Agreements, licensing,
    data use and clinical trials agreements.
  • Be capable of regularly negotiating independently with business partners on matters of
    strategic importance that affect a substantial portion of the business or matters of significant
    importance to senior management.
  • Identify unmet needs and future legal issues and proactively proposes strategies to optimize
    outcomes and results for the company and manage risk.
  • Have excellent drafting, negotiation and very clear communication skills.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
  • Experience with data protection and privacy.
  • Excellent business judgment and the ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously.
  • Some travel between the NY and San Francisco offices required.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com

Opportunity to be involved in the early stages of creating products that use proprietary healthcare data to directly impact outcomes and improve patient care.

Responsibilities

  • Champion a user-centric approach to product design and definition.
  • Provide product leadership and rally development team to ship high quality products.
  • Own and prioritize a feature backlog to align with the overall strategic roadmap.
  • Create and groom product backlog through interaction with major stakeholders, including data scientists, engineers, designers, and business teams.
  • Think critically about technical solutions and engage the engineering team in tough conversations about prioritization and tradeoffs.
  • Work closely with UI/UX designers and inspire them to deliver best-in-class experiences across the entire product suite.
  • Provide input to the strategic roadmap by getting smart about the market through customer interaction and competitive analysis.
  • Evangelize product strategy and roadmap across a range of stakeholders and functional teams in the organization.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor or Master Degree in Science, Engineering or in a relevant technical area of study. Data science background is preferred.
  • Experience with medical software development, Agile, and working in multidisciplinary teams in a matrix environment is a plus.
  • At least 3+ years work experience as a product owner or product manager for a technical product/device, preferably in a regulated environment.
  • Experience in healthcare products is a plus.
  • Experience in clinical trials software development is a plus.
  • A Product Owner certification is beneficial.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com

Verana Health is looking for a seasoned Java back-end engineer with proficient skills on building microservices, Web or SAAS services using Spring Boot and with deep knowledge on analytical or transactional data handling.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with data science and data platform teams to transform analytical data for transactional Web application use.
  • Prior working experience on handling analytical and transactional databases using SQL queries is preferred.
  • Capable of building Spring Boot microservice from scratch.
  • Understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
  • With excellent communication, computer, server, AWS services and project management skills.
  • Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
  • Collaborating with the Data team, front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
  • Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
  • Work, coordinate and overlay working schedules with offshore teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of real world experience on large scale Java API server, Microservices, REST and SAS system using Java.
  • Experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Batch, Spring Web Services.
  • Mastery and with real world experience on multiple database platforms (RDBMS, NoSQL).
  • Proficiency with shell scripts, Python, Spark, JavaScript is a plus.
  • Prior experience with healthcare related products is a big plus.
  • Knowledge of AWS services is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
  • Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
  • Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently, with a group or with remote teams.
  • Knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated on SDLC. Experience working in an Agile environment or prior experience as a Scrum master role is a plus.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com