Lead Research Analyst - Healthcare

About Qualitate

Qualitate is building the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis - replacing weeks of manual research with hours of high-signal output.

Expert research is a broken industry dominated by legacy incumbents with expensive, manual, and slow services. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling expert calls, and synthesizing insights across fragmented providers. The process takes weeks to produce short-lived intelligence.

Qualitate transforms this workflow by autonomously conducting expert discussions at scale using AI. Qualitate’s AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts simultaneously each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. The platform turns these interviews into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

The Role

Primary research is a core workflow in healthcare. Diligence, forecasting, and product decisions all run through what practitioners, payers, and buyers are seeing - but that process faces a major scalability bottleneck. We've already solved this bottleneck in several other industries, and demand from the healthcare market has been loud enough that we're now running the same playbook here.

Reporting to the Director of Research, you'll shape the healthcare research roadmap, decide what we cover and when, determine the most pertinent questions and KPIs, and publish the insights that establish this coverage in the market. You'll be in front of investors and corporate teams, and you'll be accountable for the outcomes: the quality of the research, its predictive accuracy, and the reputation of Qualitate's healthcare franchise.

What the day-to-day looks like:

• Leverage the company's proprietary datasets to uncover insightful company and market trends across healthcare services, medtech, and pharma/biotech for investment funds and corporate clients.

• Develop forward-looking analyses and uncover industry dynamics, key growth drivers, and demand shifts across key healthcare and life sciences themes.

• Contribute thought leadership by creating high-impact content for our newsletter and client communications.

• Clearly and effectively communicate actionable insights to clients and prospects through calls, webinars, and events.

• Contribute domain expertise and research judgement to hone the fidelity of our first-to-market research methodology; partner with product and engineering teams on design to continue the creation of our best-in-class AI-native research platform.

• Stay ahead of emerging trends, technologies, and innovators shaping the future of healthcare and life sciences.

Who This Role Is For

• 3+ years professional experience in data-driven research creation. Equity research, financial analysis, market research, and/or consulting roles.

• You understand the fundamental research workflow. How funds source ideas and build conviction through data and primary research. You can articulate how Qualitate fits into that process in the terms buyers actually care about. You know which metrics matter to Healthcare investment decisions.

• In-depth knowledge of key Healthcare & Life Science sectors including Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices, Healthcare Services, Managed Care, Life Science Tools, Digital Health, Health Tech, and emerging fields.

• You communicate your ideas clearly. Long-form and short-form writing expertise required - you must be able to synthesize data into digestible, forward-looking insights. You should feel comfortable talking to investors and corporate clients as an authority on Healthcare.

• You experiment heavily with AI. You’re constantly testing and refining AI tools and agents as they ship, and build them into your daily workflows - automating pieces of your own job to drive higher productivity - and sharing learnings with your team.

What Sets You Apart

• A strong sense of ownership. You’ll be tasked with turning our existing data collection on the healthcare industry into a market-defining research product, and continuously iterating on coverage to stay ahead of what’s most topical. You’ll have full ownership over our coverage strategy and research direction in the space, with full autonomy to identify emerging areas of focus that define the ever-changing landscape.

• An analytical mind. You get excited about diving into a large semi-structured dataset to understand key inflections and generate new ideas. Proficiency in managing/analyzing large data sets. SQL experience is strongly preferred.

• You use AI for both speed and rigor. You understand that AI can be used to both accelerate your initial learning in a space and help you go deeper than you otherwise could have - pressure-testing ideas, automating the analyses you never had time for, and expanding what one analyst can rigorously cover.

• You learn and iterate quickly. You’ll be working alongside accomplished professionals across research, product, and engineering. Pick up what they know and implement; impart what’s incremental onto them.

• A real map of the value chain. You know where the useful information sits in this industry - provider and IDN procurement, payer and formulary decision-making, specialty pharmacy, clinical operations, and CRO and supplier organizations - and you know that reimbursement often determines the outcome before the technology does.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $140k–$200k

• Bonus: Variable dependent on achievement of goals at the company level, team level, and individual level

• Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth

• Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays

• Location: Full-time, in-person in New York City

What to expect working at Qualitate

• Excellence. You’ll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact.

• High velocity. Fast paced work environment in terms of growth, decision making, and time to impact.

• High agency. Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on. We hire people we trust to figure it out.

• A builder’s mindset. You'll create the processes, playbooks, and systems that define how this company scales.

• Shared ambition. A small, early team disrupting the multi-billion dollar market research industry with AI.

• Joy. We work hard and genuinely enjoy working with each other. Dedication to our work is matched only by our passion for fostering an enjoyable, collaborative work environment.

Qualitate is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.