Chief Scientific Officer

Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.  

Truveta was born in the Pacific Northwest, but we have employees who live across the country.  Our team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid model and working from anywhere.  In person attendance is required for two weeks during the year for Truveta Planning Weeks.

For overall team productivity, we optimize meeting hours in the pacific time zone. We avoid scheduling recurring meetings that start after 3pm PT, however, ad hoc meetings occur between 8am-6pm Pacific time. #LI-remote

Who We Need  

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) to lead Truveta’s research organization. Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, the CSO will define and execute our scientific strategy, ensuring Truveta is recognized as a global leader in real-world evidence and data-driven research.

This leader will set the standard for how Truveta’s data platform can be used to transform healthcare by producing impactful, high-integrity research that advances science, improves patient outcomes, and builds trust in real-world data as a force for public good.

Key responsibilities

• Shape and lead Truveta’s research strategy to drive scientific excellence and deliver high-impact insights across therapeutics, health equity, clinical practice, and public health.
• Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing research team with a strong culture of methodological rigor, transparency, and mission-driven innovation.
• Serve as executive sponsor for priority studies, ensuring timely and credible publication of findings in top-tier journals and presentations at leading conferences.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and clinical leaders to ensure scientific initiatives are aligned with platform capabilities and strategic priorities.
• Act as Truveta’s external scientific voice with regulators, researchers, life science leaders, and policymakers—representing the company in advisory roles, speaking engagements, and collaborative initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership and support as we expand the Truveta Genome Project
• Uphold the highest standards in research ethics, compliance, privacy, and reproducibility, ensuring Truveta’s work meets or exceeds regulatory expectations.

Key qualifications

• Passion for Truveta’s mission and belief in the power of real-world data to save lives.
• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, or equivalent) in epidemiology, biostatistics, health informatics, public health, or a related biomedical field.
• 15+ years of experience in scientific research or real-world evidence generation, including leadership roles within academia, industry, or public health.
• Proven track record of impactful publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Deep expertise in study design, statistical methods, and health data analytics.
• Executive-level communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience leading high-performing, mission-driven research teams.

Why Truveta?   

Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.  

We Offer:

• Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage
• Great benefits package
• Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• 401K plan
• Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Generous parental leave
• Regular team activities (virtual and in-person as soon as we are able)
• The base pay for this position is $300,000 to $325,000. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.