Head of Research and Scientific Communication

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. We are recruiting an experienced leader who can provide strategic vision for the research team and also share our evidence with the world. This leader has done it all in the research domain, and can bring their team along with them, and they are an expert communicator who can implement a strategy to share Virta science with key opinion leaders, scientists, and commercial stakeholders. The clinical research team’s mission is to generate rigorous evidence to inform Virta’s care, to build credibility among clinical, commercial and scientific audiences, and to accelerate expansion of Virta’s care model. We put evidence ahead of convention to improve patient outcomes and impact metabolic disease at scale. See the team’s work here https://www.virtahealth.com/research. Transitioning to an era where long-term health outcomes and economic impact move to the center of the metabolic health space, we’re adding real world evidence to the focus of the clinical research team, and hence are searching for a leader who has built a portfolio of work leveraging claims and clinical datasets to demonstrate the impact of a clinical health program. We also know that generating evidence isn’t sufficient. This leader will need to have a track record of building KOL networks, communicating science, and partnering closely with Commercial Marketing to translate Virta’s clinical outcomes, economic impact, and research leadership into a compelling market narrative. This person will help ensure Virta’s evidence base is not only disseminated, but actively used to shape how the market understands metabolic health outcomes and the value of Virta’s care model. This leader will have four primary areas of responsibility: 1. Leading the research team, composed of doctoral level clinical investigators, who conduct virtual clinical trials and collaborate with academic investigators on sponsored and collaborative research, all leading to peer-reviewed publication. 2. Developing real world evidence supporting Virta’s impact on clinical and economic outcomes, in collaboration with the Virta data science team and external data resources, from data warehouses to health plans and employers. 3. Partnering with Commercial Marketing, Sales, and Clinical leadership to translate Virta’s research, real-world evidence, and clinical outcomes into a compelling market narrative. They will help define how Virta communicates its evidence base externally, ensuring our science not only supports commercial conversations but helps shape the broader market conversation around metabolic health, outcomes, and economic impact. 4. Leading and implementing a coordinated KOL strategy in collaboration with the commercial team. KEY DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead and nurture Virta’s team of experienced clinical researchers who have decades of combined experience developing, implementing, and publishing data from pivotal clinical trials in metabolic health, as well as presenting and publishing on analyses from our own registry data. - Build a network of key investigators who are interested in collaborating with Virta researchers on trials that extend the impact of the Virta program. - Partner closely with Commercial Marketing and Sales to define the evidence, proof points, claims, st