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

Verana Health is a small and agile company that is growing quickly, and the Content Marketing Manager will play a critical role in defining and writing our company’s narrative as we continue to expand our scope through new association partnerships and product launches in 2019. As the company’s first content marketer, you will own our content strategy and have the opportunity to spearhead new marketing initiatives, including our company blog. This is an excellent growth opportunity for an independent and creative marketer with a passion for writing and a knack for storytelling in a small, growing commercial team.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively engage with current events, research, and external resources in domain area to develop subject matter expertise.
  • Lead development of marketing content and campaigns, including white papers, case studies, and blog posts.
  • Build and execute digital marketing campaigns (i.e., social media, SEO) in alignment with company marketing objectives.
  • Create and update marketing assets using tools such as Photoshop and InDesign.
  • Develop, update and maintain web site content and resources.
  • Assist in the preparation of materials and presentations for key conferences and scientific assemblies in domain areas.
  • Grow team domain expertise by spearheading internal education initiatives.
  • Accept ownership for new and different marketing projects as department needs evolve.

Qualifications

  • Background or interest in health/life sciences topics.
  • A knack for taking complex concepts and ideas and developing a simple story.
  • 3-5 years experience in marketing, communications or a related field strongly preferred.
  • BA or BS in a healthcare or communications related field preferred.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to balance multiple projects and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Independent self-starter with strong work ethic.
  • Comfortable picking up new technologies; working knowledge of Salesforce, WordPress, and Adobe Creative Cloud a plus.

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

The Data Platform Team is looking for a QA engineer to provide quality engineering for platform features and data. In this role you will build and automate test suites & test cases to ensure the functionality for the features built by the team and make sure they work as expected. In addition, this role will build stress tests and fault tolerance tests to identify bugs and improvement areas for the platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, automate and monitor tests for platform features & data. You will work closely with the developers to understand architecture details of components, provide feedback on edge cases and play a major role in shaping features.
  • Work with the development team to design acceptance tests required and build them.
  • Design and build robust test automation frameworks. Incorporate modern software Quality Engineering practices and Test Automation technologies.
  • Work on fast iteration cycles and tight deadlines using an agile/scrum methodology.
  • Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues.

Qualifications

  • BS/CS, MS/CS or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of software engineering, operating system, database, networking and modern software Quality Engineering practices, approaches and Test Automation technologies.
  • Proficient coding skills in Python/scripting languages. Passionate about delivering quality products and have the attitude of automating everything.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills. Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment.
  • Proficiency in setting up Continuous Integration/Deployment processes.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) based infrastructure systems is a plus.
  • Previous experience working in an Agile environment, using Scrum or Kanban methodology.

To Apply

Please email your resume to: jobs@veranahealth.com