Research Data Analyst for mental health startup (non-profit)

At Affect Mental Health, we’re building a non-profit Y combinator (startup incubator) to build breakthrough products in mental health. We need products that are as impactful as Facebook and Google in mental health. Read more about The 1,000 Journeys Project, where we collect mental health stories to map out where transformative products can have the most impact. Meet Malik and Jessica.

Be a member of the founding team that grew from the Harvard and MIT communities with expertise including healthcare economics, user experience design, molecular neuroscience, and computational biology. As a Data Analyst, you will help ensure that we remain a truly data-driven force across all pieces of the organization. You will be working hands-on with our founding team with access to top advisors from companies such as Google and Facebook as well as major VC firms.

We’re participating in the Harvard Venture Accelerator. As part of this team, you will learn how to be an entrepreneur. Two years ago, our advisor experienced the two most transformative months of his life participating in this program. He started with zero business experience and learned how to figure out what product to build, how to build it, and how to construct business models. At the end of the program, he raised $10M to start his company. By joining, you will gain these superpowers!

Responsibilities

Work with UX team to design data collection process of user journeys
Conduct exploratory analysis into various datasets (e.g. patient data) to identify trends
Work with design and product teams and communicate analysis findings to inform product development
Compile market analysis reports for various verticals in mental health care
Derive the organizational chart for various mental health care provider and payer networks
Analyze mental health startups to see why they fail or succeed
Help build a mental health product that will have a huge impact based on our user journey research

Requirements, you are

Deeply passionate about mental health
A great navigator: constantly testing hypothesis and outlining strategy for pivoting when needed
Aware of what needs to be learned and ability to learn FAST to GSD (Get Stuff Done)
Rigorous thinker: able to figure out the core of complicated problems
Can bootstrap projects from scratch- comfortable writing scripts to pull, store and query data.
Ability to story tell and visualize data coherently (d3, ggplot2, etc.)
Relentless learner: you want to maximize your experience with us and learn as much as you can

Nice-to-haves

Insatiable curiosity around why products succeed and what delights users
Data munging and mining is a thing you’ve done
Proficiency in Python or R, as well as Excel. SQL a plus.
Have worked with open APIs before for data collection
Thrives in cross-functional team settings with awesome communication skills
Ability to distill complicated concepts to laypeople
Appreciation of puns

Our ambition is to build sustainable enterprises—unafraid of transforming traditional approaches—that tackle stigma, access, and quality of mental healthcare.

Are you in?