Clinical Research Scientist

About Us

InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.

Team InStride Health: Our Core Values

• Give Heart: We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated. 
• Work Smart: We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
• Have Humility: We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
• Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Clinical Research Scientist to join the Clinical Research Team at InStride Health. This role is ideal for an early-career doctoral level clinician-scientist who is passionate about advancing quality, safety, and clinical effectiveness through rigorous analytics and data-driven research.

The Clinical Research Scientist will play a key role in clinical outcomes evaluation within a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment. The individual will work closely with clinical, operations, product, and data teams to monitor high standards of care delivery, support evidence-based decision-making, and strengthen organizational quality initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead analytics and collaborate in the design, execution, and quality assurance for, clinical outcomes research initiatives
• Manage, analyze, and interpret large clinical and operational datasets using appropriate statistical methodologies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with clinicians, operations leaders, product teams, and data partners to identify opportunities for process improvement and quality optimization.
• Assist with research protocol development, study implementation, and regulatory compliance activities including Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, amendments, and reporting requirements.
• Support clinical research dissemination processes including scientific and business presentations & publications.
• Stay current on emerging research in pediatric anxiety, OCD, and digital mental health to inform our research agenda.
• Maintain high standards of research rigor, ethical conduct, regulatory compliance, and continuous quality improvement.
• Contribute to evaluation of technology-enabled care interventions, including AI-assisted tools, as part of our outcomes research agenda.

What You Need to Succeed in the Role:

• Doctoral-level terminal degree (PhD, ScD, or equivalent) in Clinical Psychology
• Independence and experience with clinical data management, analytics, statistical analysis (SAS, R, or equivalent), and data quality assurance methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience conducting clinical research, outcomes research, quality improvement, or program evaluation initiatives.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including scientific writing and presentation development.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Organized, attention to detail, and unwavering commitment to data integrity and continuous quality improvement.
• Able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and thrive in a high-growth environment where the work is continually evolving.

The expected annual salary for this role is between $106,000-$118,000. Actual starting salary will be determined on an individualized basis and will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific skill set, work experience, licensure, etc.

Why Join Our Team

• Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, paid service days, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more)
• Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
• Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care
• Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem
• Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)

We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:

1. Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.
2. Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.

We invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.

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