Lead Data Scientist

How you will make an impact?

​Support and Conduct Research to Improve Residency Selection:

• ​​Lead the design, execution, and scientific direction of research portfolios focused on residency selection, applicant behavior, and the evaluation of new selection tools; ensure methodological rigor, psychometric soundness, and clear research pathways from concept to implementation.  

• ​Identify research questions and help to define research priorities and analytic strategy at scale, developing conceptual frameworks, research questions, methodological approaches, and statistical models to evaluate tool performance and policy impacts. 

• ​Serve as a primary scientific liaison with internal teams, external vendors, advisory committees, and specialty stakeholders, anticipating risks, making methodological recommendations, and resolving complex technical issues. 

• Oversee evidence synthesis and knowledge integration, guiding literature reviews, environmental scans, and validity frameworks to inform adoption and responsible use of emerging assessment and selection tools. 

• ​Lead research governance and compliance processes, including IRB compliance, DUAs, NDAs, and legal agreements, ensuring ethical data use, risk mitigation, and alignment with organizational policies and related guidelines. 

• ​Lead dissemination of findings through manuscripts, technical briefs, and presentations, ensuring transparent documentation of methodology and results, and mentor junior staff in scholarly writing and publication standards.​ 

​Data Management​:

• ​​Provide strategic direction for data architecture and management processes, developing and refining standards, governance frameworks, and workflows that support large-scale residency selection research and product development. 

• Lead complex data extraction, integration, and transformation from AAMC repositories such as the data warehouse and data mart, optimizing query performance, automating repeatable workflows, and ensuring scalability and traceability across projects.

• Serve as primary data liaison with internal teams and/or external partners to align on data formats, schedules, and security considerations. 

• ​Oversee operational and research data exchanges, including recurring and ad-hoc transfers, and ensure timeliness, accuracy, and compliance.

• ​Lead quality assurance, validation, and risk mitigation processes for incoming and outgoing data, proactively identifying anomalies and directing resolution with technical teams and stakeholders. 

• ​Develop and reproducible analytical workflows, including dataset production, documentation standards, code versioning, and transparent lineage tracking.

• ​Perform data validation for data displayed in products or tools (e.g., Residency Explorer, Careers in Medicine) to ensure data is rendered accurately and in compliance with data display rules.

• ​Conduct quality assurance checks of data to identify red flags and coordinate with AAMC colleagues to investigate and resolve issues. 

• ​Clean data, document syntax, and analyze external analytic data sources in collaboration with research partners and constituents. 

• ​Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to answer questions about residency selection or assessments, as needed (e.g., advanced analytics and AI, regressions and multilevel modeling, correlations and descriptive analyses). 

• ​Synthesize findings for leadership and external audiences, preparing executive-ready summaries, technical reports, and presentations, and mentor junior analysts in analytical reasoning and communication.​ 

​​Develop Resources and Deliverables for External and Internal Audiences​:

• ​​Lead the definition of project scope, research objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, scientific rigor, and operational feasibility. 

• ​Facilitate meetings, take notes, and follow up on action items. Facilitate and guide cross-functional collaboration, setting agendas, driving decision-making discussions, ensure action items translate into measurable research progress, and delegate tactical tasks where appropriate. 

• ​Design and oversee creation of compelling data visualizations and evidence-driven narratives, ensuring accuracy, methodological transparency, and effective translation of complex analytical findings for varied audiences. 

• ​Develop high-quality presentations, reports, and leadership materials for leadership briefings, advisory committees, and external stakeholders, coaching team members on evidence communication and messaging strategy.

• ​Serve as lead on manuscripts, conference submissions, and scholarly products, ensuring methodological clarity, alignment with publication standards, and dissemination of findings to the medical education community.​ 

​​Relationship Management:​

•  ​​Cultivate and steward high-level collaborations across ASRD, the Services, and other clusters aligning research priorities with enterprise strategy and enabling coordinated delivery of high-impact solutions. 

• ​Establish relationships with constituents and colleagues in external organizations to co-create high-impact products and services that deliver meaningful value to the community.

• ​Represent the research portfolio in cross-organizational discussions, providing thought leadership, negotiating research scope and expectations, and ensuring stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle.​  

What you will bring to the role

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Education: ​Master’s degree in Psychology or related field​

• Preferred Education:​Masters degree in industrial-organizational psychology, educational measurement, economics, data science or related fields

Required Experience:

• 8-10 years of related work experience.​

• 1-3 years of supervisory experience.

Preferred Experience: