Director, Analytics

Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes. The Iterative Health Site Network is a premier network of 100+ clinical research sites across the US and Europe, accelerating the path to market for novel therapies. By combining deep expertise in clinical trials with cutting-edge AI, we empower research teams and study sponsors to expand and expedite access to novel therapeutics for patients in need. Iterative Health is looking for a Director of Analytics to own how we define, measure, and improve performance across the business. This is a build role, you'll be establishing the metrics layer, forecasting infrastructure, and reporting systems that our operational and commercial leaders depend on to make good decisions. You’ll be helping our leaders define what good looks like and help them unlock growth. You'll partner closely with teams across site operations, activations, capacity planning, and commercial to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights. The work spans everything from KPI definition and dashboard development to forecasting and trial enrollment modeling, with a direct line to the decisions that drive growth.This is a hands-on role. You'll write SQL, build dashboards, and work directly in the data alongside the people you support. Over time you'll grow a small team, but the expectation is that you're a practitioner first.ResponsibilitiesBe the analytical partner operations and commercial leaders rely onYour primary customers are our operational and commercial leaders. They're smart, data-savvy, and move fast. Your job is to make sure they have what they need to make good decisions — and to push back when the data tells a different story than the narrative.Conduct deep-dive analyses on enrollment funnels, activation timelines, site performance, and commercial pipelineTurn ambiguous business questions into structured analyses with clear, actionable outputsSupport leadership reviews and board materials with clean data storytellingEnable team members across the business to pull and interpret their own data Build and maintain trial enrollment and capacity models, both theoretical and bottoms-upOwn trial enrollment forecasting, integrating site-level data, sponsor information with portfolio-level targetsDevelop scenario analyses to evaluate trade-offs across trials, sites, and investment optionsSupport quarterly planning and headcount decisions with rigorous, clearly communicated dataRaise the analytics bar across the organizationYou'll be setting the standard for how Iterative Health uses data. That means building the infrastructure and also shaping the culture around it.Design and maintain dashboards in SQL and BI tools (Power BI, Looker, or equivalent)Mentor teammates and cross-functional partners on analytical best practicesChampion data governance, documentation, and quality across the analytics functionHire and develop a small analytics team as the function maturesBuild the metrics layer from the ground upIterative Health has ambitious targets across patient enrollment, site activation, capacity growth, and commercial growth. Right now, the infrastructure to measure progress against those targets consistently and reliably is still being built. You'll own that build.Define and standardize KPIs across site operations, activations, patient funnel performance, and commercialEstablish a single source of truth including trusted definitions, clean lineage, documented logicPartner with Finance (who owns the Enterprise Data Warehouse) and the BI team to ensure clean upstream data and sound architectureReplace manual spreadsheets and one-off analyses with reliable, self-serve reporting What We're Looking ForRequired10+ years in analytics, business intelligence, or a closely related function in a fast-moving environmentExpert-level SQL and comfort working directly with large, messy, real-world datasetsStrong experience with BI tools (Power BI, Looker, Tableau, or equivalent)Proven track record of not just building KPI frameworks, dashboards, and automated reporting from scratch, but having strong business acumen and impactExperience building forecasting or capacity models, not just reporting on actualsExcellent communication you can explain a complex model to a non-technical operator and make it landHigh ownership mindset you run problems to ground and don't wait to be asked and want to build the roadmap for a functionStrongly preferredExperience in healthtech, clinical research, or life sciences, familiarity with clinical trials operations, enrollment funnels, or site networks is a real advantageExperience with Salesforce or revenue/commercial analyticsPython or R for advanced modelingExperience with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)Prior experience building or managing a small analytics team New York pay range: $165,000 USD - $190,000 USD At Iterative Health, we’re actively working towards creating an environment that is representative of the diversity of patients our technology serves. We are focused on building an equitable and inclusive culture, and by extension, hiring process. If you require any accommodations to make the application process or interviewing experience more accessible to you, please contact CandidateAccommodations@iterative.health.