Senior Director, Real World Data (RWD)

The role

The Senior Director of Real World Data will define and implement the RWD strategy, platform, and data pipeline. This person will lead the RWD Informatics team to transform diverse datasets into regulatory-grade assets for clinical development and digital health products.

What you will do

• Lead operations and continuous improvement of the RWD curation pipeline.
• Evaluate and integrate agentic workflows and AI to drive efficiencies.
• Design and implement processes, analytical methods, and AI tools to integrate RWD sources.
• Prepare data for analysis through cleaning and mapping.
• Develop a scalable unstructured data curation operation using automation.
• Create a multi-year strategy for RWD acquisition, management, and use.
• Architect, build, and maintain a scalable RWD platform and pipeline.
• Lead clinical data analyses to support product strategy and development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Clinical Development and Biostatistics.
• Oversee the translation of raw RWD into research-ready datasets using industry-standard models.

Required qualifications

• 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, 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.
• Experience leading data modeling, terminology normalization, data curation and/or unstructured data abstraction via natural language processing (NLP).
• Deep knowledge of ontologies commonly used by health systems and payers (ICD-10, HCPCS, CPT, LOINC, RxNorm).
• Experience with Python, R, and/or SQL.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting real-world evidence FDA submissions or payer/guideline dossiers.
• Clinical background (MD, NP, RN, or similar) and/or degree in health informatics.
• Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working directly with health systems or data vendors on data licensing and ingestion projects.

Benefits

• Equity
• Cash bonuses
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits

About the company

Freenome is developing and commercializing a portfolio of early cancer detection products and digital health solutions.