Senior Translational Scientist Jobs

Full Time, Remote (U.S.)

Our vision is to make mental health radically accessible.

We are a team of innovators, experts and business builders who have come together to develop advanced technologies that can transform healthcare.

We’re focused on addressing the vast, unmet need for improved engagement and outcomes in mental health with Woebot, a digital coach that helps people engage more deeply and continuously in their mental health. Woebot's breakthrough is its ability to form a human-level bond with people using the latest in NLP, ML and other advanced technologies. Leveraging this therapeutic bond, and the expertise of our Stanford-trained clinicians and scientists, Woebot is constantly learning from the experience of more than one million people and hundreds of millions of messages exchanged to deliver high quality CBT-based therapeutic tools that are psychologically related and responsive to a person’s dynamic state of health.

Our work to advance human-centered technology has attracted a lot of attention. Today we’ve amassed more mentions in the scientific literature than any other digital therapeutic company, and are regularly featured as the architects of a radically new approach to mental health. But we’ve only just begun. With the backing of some of the world’s most forward thinking investors ad a new round of funding complete, we’re poised to redefine how people access mental health care.

Are you ready to create a new future for mental health, for everyone? Let's do it together!

How You’ll Thrive

Within 1 month you will:

• Contribute to the planning and execution of Discovery projects
• Conduct reviews of user transcripts to become familiar with Woebot interactions
• Develop a working understanding of the structure, design, and content within Woebot today
• Contribute to the implementation and evaluation of new features and content in Woebot

Within 3 months you will:

• Propose at least 1 new idea for discovery based on advances in clinical science and/or health technology
• Provide clear and actionable guidance to the product development team for at least 1 new feature
• Assist in the design of at least 1 research study or project with clear hypotheses and metrics for success and learning
• Lead at least 1 Discovery project that provides clear business value to Woebot

Within 6 months you will:

• Facilitate implementation of multiple new features into Woebot
• Lead and execute on multiple Discovery projects
• Demonstrate a track record of successful and productive cross-functional collaboration
• Disseminate project and research results internally for maximizing business value
• Help enable at least 1 Commercial/Business Development opportunity or partnership
• Provide at least 1 strategic direction for future Discovery and research

Within Year 1 you will:

• Be an integral part of Discovery at Woebot, regularly identifying new ideas based on data or new science and leading execution of projects
• Be adept at bridging discovery and implementation by having help guide the development of several features informed by Discovery projects
• Be actively contributing to evidence generation and research at Woebot, including study design, data inference, and scientific dissemination

Key Responsibilities

What you’ll own:

• Translating the latest clinical science into Discovery projects
• Providing clear and actionable product guidance for implementation of new therapeutic features
• Ensuring that product features and content are clinically sound and rigorous

What you’ll collaborate on:

• Discovery project conception, prototype development, and testing
• Implementation of product features and therapeutic principles into Woebot

What you’ll add to the team:

• History of effective collaboration with a cross-functional product development team
• Understanding of mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety and associated treatments
• Experience with hypothesis generation and testing and/or rapid prototyping and iteration

What you’ll get to learn:

• Experience developing a digital therapeutic subject to regulatory oversight
• Clinical workflow implementation and integration

Role Specific Competencies

Required

• At least 1 year of experience working in an industry setting
• PhD in clinical science, clinical psychology, neuroscience, or related field
• Direct clinical treatment experience and strong understanding of evidence-based treatment principles for depression and anxiety (for either adolescents or adults)
• Demonstrated expertise with research methods and hypothesis testing
• Direct experience working with a product development team to build interventions
• Demonstrated track record of mechanism focused clinical research and/or treatment development
• At least 3 years of experience post completion of terminal degree

Preferred

• 2+ years experience working in an industry setting
• Experience designing and leading clinical studies
• 5 years of experience post completion of terminal degree
• Experience developing digital therapeutics subject to regulatory approval

This Might Be Your Next Career Move IF:

• You care about helping make quality mental health care realistically accessible to millions of people nationwide
• You are passionate about working at the intersection of clinical and product development
• You enjoy collaborating with and learning from others
• You are intellectually curious and excited to explore and discover new ways to treat diseases

Our Core Values:

• Strong work-ethic: You’ve mastered healthy habits in your life that allow you to do great things. You exemplify dedication and commitment to coming up with very good results in your work and inspire others to do the same.
• Self-aware: You possess a high level of emotional intelligence, which allows you to understand yourself and others, and to have a healthy emotional life in the workplace.
• Empathic: You’re a compassionate person and a team player motivated to understand others and help them be successful, too. You care as deeply for your colleagues as you do for our mission and our users.
• Growth mindset: You believe abilities – like intelligence and talent – can be developed through dedication and hard work. You see failure as an opportunity to grow and welcome feedback as a pathway to your continued success.
• Humble: You recognize that you are one among many, and you hold a genuine desire to discover what other people can offer. You are intrigued by how others think, and how others feel differently from you. You lean into these moments with patience and curiosity.
• Proactive & flexible:You are able to hit the ground running, you take responsibility for finding a way to get the job done. You learn as quickly as possible and sometimes do things outside the immediate scope of your work, giving it all you’ve got.

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision
• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options
• Flexible PTO

Woebot is an equal opportunity employer and we deeply value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.