# Senior Director, Real World Data (RWD)

**Company**: Freenome
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $236,300 - $335,475
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As the Senior Director of Real World Data (RWD), you will define, develop, and implement Freenome's RWD strategy, platform, and data pipeline.

You will lead the RWD Informatics team in transforming diverse real-world datasets into regulatory-grade, research-ready assets.

Your efforts will contribute to developing and commercializing early cancer detection products and digital health solutions.

The role reports to the Chief Product Officer and is a remote position.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the operations and continuous improvement of the RWD curation pipeline.

- Evaluate and integrate agentic workflows and AI to ensure accuracy and quality.

- Design and implement processes, analytical methods, and AI tools to integrate various RWD sources.

- Prepare data for analysis, including data cleaning and mapping.

- Ensure 'regulatory-grade' data quality where required.

- Develop a scalable unstructured data curation operation.

- Create a comprehensive, multi-year strategy for the acquisition, management, curation, and use of RWD.

- Architect, build, and maintain a robust RWD platform and pipeline.

- Lead clinical data analyses to support product strategy, development, and commercialization.

- Serve as the RWD expert, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

- Contribute to defining the strategic direction of Freenome's data initiatives.

- Support data acquisition and lead data product implementation efforts.

- Oversee the translation of raw RWD datasets into research-ready, regulatory-grade datasets.

- Foster a quality mindset through data quality checks, governance policies, and SOPs.

- Develop the team, building technical and leadership capabilities.

- Directly lead a team of clinical informaticists and data analysts.

- Manage the RWD department budget.

- Build and maintain a culture of collaboration and inclusivity.

Requirements:

- Master's or Ph.D. in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Informatics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.

- At least 12 years of progressive experience in clinical informatics.

- Experience with EHR, claims, and other structured and unstructured RWD, and molecular data.

- Experience applying RWD to device, therapeutic, and/or software product development.

- Experience with RWD across multiple disease areas, including oncology.

- At least 10 years of experience building and leading high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams.

- Demonstrated success operating within a matrixed organization.

- Excellent written and verbal communicator with strong stakeholder management capabilities and problem-solving skills.

- Experience leading data modeling, terminology normalization, data curation, and/or unstructured data abstraction via NLP.

- Deep knowledge of ontologies commonly used by health systems and payers.

- Experience with Python, R, and/or SQL.

Nice to haves:

- Experience supporting real-world evidence FDA submissions or payer/guideline dossiers.

- Clinical background and/or degree in health informatics.

- Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing environments.

- Experience working directly with health systems or data vendors on data licensing and ingestion projects.

Benefits:

- The US target range of our base salary rate for new hires is $236,300 - $335,475.

- Eligible to receive equity, cash bonuses, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Health Informatics
- Computer Science
- Clinical Informatics
- EHR
- Claims data
- Molecular data
- RWD
- Oncology
- Data modeling
- Terminology normalization
- Data curation
- Unstructured data abstraction
- NLP
- Python
- R
- SQL

### Nice to have
- Real-world evidence FDA submissions
- Payer/guideline dossiers
- Clinical background
- Cloud-based data storage
- Processing environments
- Data licensing
- Ingestion projects

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