Informaticist
AcuityMD is a software and data platform that accelerates access to medical technologies. Each year, the FDA approves ~6,000 new medical devices. Our platform helps MedTech companies get these products to physicians more effectively so they can improve patient care with the latest technology. We're backed by Benchmark, Redpoint, ICONIQ Growth, and Ajax Health and we help MedTech companies identify how their products are used, understand why outcomes vary, and identify opportunities where physicians can better serve their patients.
AcuityMD is seeking an Informaticist to establish our informatics practice. Our data assets are central to the value we deliver, and managing the associated informatics—ontologies, value sets, concepts, and terminologies—is critical for ensuring data quality, enabling powerful product features, and building trust with our clients.
As our first hire in this function, you will be responsible for understanding the nuances of our data products, the use cases they support (particularly in the medical device space), and the opportunities for improvement. You will apply informatics best practices to build, manage, and scale our standard content libraries and data quality frameworks. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise in medical terminologies, strategic thinking about data quality, and strong collaboration skills to work effectively across Product, Engineering, Data Platform, and Commercial teams. Initially, the focus will be on clinical informatics needs, laying the groundwork for future expansion.
Team Mission
We are building a world-class product team to build software features as meticulously crafted and data driven as the highly specialized MedTech products that save lives each day. Our team is the critical link between what our engineers build and what our customers need. We are looking for product leaders to develop deep empathy for our users, apply data to prioritize user needs, and bring new features to life by aligning and coordinating across technical and customer-facing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage standard content**:** design, build, maintain, and scale standard content libraries, ontologies, value sets, and hierarchies relevant to medical devices, procedures, diagnoses, claims data, and other healthcare concepts crucial to AcuityMD's platform
- Drive data quality initiatives: define, measure, and monitor data quality metrics and identify root causes of data quality issues using informatics best practices to improve the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of our data assets
- Cross-functional collaboration: provide expertise and guidance on leveraging informatics effectively by partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Data Platform, and Commercial teams to integrate informatics best practices into our data infrastructure, product development lifecycle, and customer implementations
- Tooling and process improvement: evaluate, recommend, and potentially implement informatics tooling, and establish and refine processes for managing terminology updates, additions, and deletions gracefully
- Strategic input: advise stakeholders on opportunities to use informatics to unlock new product use cases, improve user experience, and drive business outcomes, and stay abreast of industry standards and best practices
Your Profile:
- 4-6 years of related experience
- You have deep experience managing medical terminologies for various technology and data use cases across a wide variety of clinical contexts and relevant ontologies
- You have experience normalizing concepts across various disparate representations, and you are comfortable establishing, maintaining and communicating new concepts and value sets that meet analytic use cases over time
- You are capable and fluent in best-in-class informatics tooling, or you have scar tissue managing concepts without tooling such that you are opinionated about a good informatics environment.
- You build empathy for customer problems and seek to understand, question, and improve today’s solutions
- You seek hard problems to solve and are comfortable with ambiguity
- You pay strong attention to detail, you communicate clearly and concisely and you have a bias towards action
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and do the hard work to manage the necessary content
- Eager to expand your scope of knowledge and understanding to new domains, such as those relevant to bringing innovative medical devices to market
- Eager to learn new skills or improve the ones you have in areas such as writing SQL queries, using AI tooling and working with Python notebooks
You must have an eligible work permit in the USA or Canada to be considered for this position
We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
We Offer:
- Remote work: AcuityMD is committed to supporting full-remote flexibility for employees in the US. We provide a work-from-home stipend for all employees.
- Unlimited vacation: Generous time off and flexible hours give you the freedom to do your best work.
- Paid Health, Dental, and Vision Plans: We offer 100% paid health, dental, and vision plans for all employees and 75% paid for our employees' dependents.
- Home Office Stipend: $1,000 to invest in remote office equipment and WiFi reimbursement.
- Learning Budget: Reimbursements for relevant learning and up-skilling opportunities.
- Optional Team Retreats: We meet in-person multiple times per year for co-working and social gatherings.
- Parental Leave: 6-12 weeks of fully-paid, flexible parental leave.
- Ground floor opportunity: Join a high-growth startup, backed by world-class investors across Enterprise SaaS and Medical Devices (Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, and Ajax Health).
- Competitive compensation with equity upside.
Who We Are:
The Company: We are builders, who are inspired by our mission to expand patient access to cutting-edge medical technologies. We value working collaboratively to solve hard problems for our customers with simple, innovative solutions. We push ourselves to learn with empathy. We foster an active culture of mentorship and inclusion, and we welcome new team members that share our values.
We're backed by Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, Ajax Health, and several other leading software and medical device investors. Since Acuity launched in 2020, we've brought on customers ranging from publicly traded Fortune 500 companies to innovative growth-stage companies and regional medical device distributors.
The Product:
AcuityMD uses data and software to help teams collaborate around the complex relationships they have with the users of medical technologies: doctors. Our platform empowers medical technology companies to see how their products are used, understand why outcomes vary, and identify opportunities where physicians or sites of care can better serve their patients.
AcuityMD is an Equal Opportunity Employer
AcuityMD is seeking to create a diverse work environment because all teams are stronger with different perspectives and life experiences. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All employees and contractors of AcuityMD are responsible for maintaining a work culture free from discrimination and harassment by treating others with kindness and respect.
