Associate Researcher - Impact Analytics

ABOUT SOLACE Healthcare in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. The system is so complex that 88% of U.S. adults do not have the health literacy necessary to navigate it without help. Solace cuts through the red tape of healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates and giving them the tools to make better decisions—and get better outcomes. We're a Series C startup, founded in 2022 and backed by Inspired Capital, Craft Ventures, Torch Capital, Menlo Ventures, Signalfire, and IVP. Our U.S. based team is lean, mission-driven, and growing quickly. Solace isn't a place to coast. We're here to redefine healthcare—and that demands urgency, precision, and heart. If you're looking to stretch yourself, sharpen your edge, and do the best work of your life alongside a team that cares deeply, you're in the right place. We’re intense, and we like it that way. Read more in our Bloomberg funding announcement here https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/vcs-give-solace-health-1-billion-valuation-for-patient-advocacy-tech?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MDczMDg4MywiZXhwIjoxNzcxMzM1NjgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQThVUzhLR0NURzEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRDYxODI0MTc0ODM0MTk0QTRENUZFNzkwMzNGMDJGNSJ9.TE2pFUAOQAPMUXFlzoQ7zeJvctq7cSibbZqtIwhW-2U&leadSource=uverify+wall. ROLE SUMMARY The person in this role will be an early-career member of the Impact Analytics team, splitting time between two complementary streams of work: structured literature research that supports the Chief Medical Officer's strategic priorities, and rigorous claims-data analysis that contributes to Solace's evidence base on patient outcomes, utilization, and spend. The role reports to the Head of Impact Analytics, with the literature work directed by the CMO. This is a hands-on role for someone with master's-level training in a quantitative public-health discipline who wants real exposure to evidence synthesis at a strategic level, Medicare claims data, and the day-to-day work of a small research team in a fast-moving company. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Run structured literature searches on questions that matter to Solace's strategic direction and maintain a working literature library the CMO can pull from - Synthesize the published evidence base honestly — what the literature does and doesn't support — into briefings useful to leadership conversations - Construct cohorts and execute analyses inside the CMS Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) on Medicare claims data, working from analytic specs designed by senior researchers and the Head of Impact Analytics - Build and maintain analytical datasets and code with attention to data quality, integrity, and reproducibility - Translate VRDC output into findings the research team can review, iterate on, and use downstream - Document analytic work to a standard that supports team-wide reproducibility and review - Partner with senior researchers, clinical, and operations stakeholders on shaping research questions worth pursuing - Contribute to white papers, case studies, and (over time) peer-reviewed publications, in supporting and co-author roles REQUIREMENTS EDUCATION - Master's-level training in Public Health (HSR or Biostatistics concentration), Health Services Research, Health Policy with quantitative concentration, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or a closely related field - Approximately 1-3 years of post-graduate experience working with healthcare data; structured research-assistant work during graduate training counts toward this TECHNICAL SKILLS - Zotero for organizing literature - PubMed search syntax — Boolean operators, MeSH terms, filters - SQL for complex querying and data manipulation - R or Python for statistical analysis and research computing (stack tier pending — see CLIN-1328) - Structured literature search, screening, and evidence-synthesis methods - Notion (or a comparable structured knowledge-management platform) for collaborative documenta