Senior Director, Real World Evidence

Evidence Strategy and Roadmap Development

• You will lead the strategy for how RWD can be used to unlock the full clinical and commercial value of Adaptive products.
• Partner with executive leadership to shape Adaptive's enterprise data strategy and identify emerging opportunities where real-world evidence can accelerate corporate growth, market differentiation, and strategic partnerships.
• Define and own the evidence roadmap for Adaptive products, identifying high-impact opportunities for RWE to support clinical decision-making, regulatory and payor engagement, market access, and physician adoption.
• Translate product, clinical, and commercial priorities into clear, actionable RWE strategies, including study concepts, data requirements, analytic approaches, timelines, and resourcing needs.
• Partner closely with Product Management, IT Engineering, R&D, Medical Affairs, Customer Operations, Market Access, and Legal to ensure evidence generation is aligned with business goals and product strategy.
• Lead prioritization decisions across disease indications and external pharmaceutical partnership opportunities, balancing scientific impact, strategic value, customer and partner needs, feasibility, and available resources.

Team & Functional Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization consisting of RWE Analysts and data engineers, creating leadership depth and capability across the function.
• Establish and manage the functional operating budget, external data investments, technology investments, and strategic partnership spend required to execute the RWD and RWE roadmap.

Real-world Data Development

• You will lead the development of Adaptive’s real-world data assets to support high-quality evidence generation.
• Define the data requirements, data models, and governance needs required to support priority RWD use cases.
• Guide the development and curation of internal and external RWD sources, including clinical data partnerships, linked datasets, and other fit-for-purpose data assets.
• Partner with Product Management, IT Engineering, and Commercial Technology Strategy to ensure data assets are designed for scalable, reproducible evidence generation.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in Adaptive’s data, including its structure, quality, limitations, and appropriate use in evidence generation.

Study Design and Analysis

• You will lead the design and execution of rigorous RWE studies that demonstrate the value of Adaptive products
• Oversee the development of statistical analysis plans and analytic approaches to answer key scientific questions about use of Adaptive’s products in the real world.
• Ensure RWE studies meet high standards for reproducibility, transparency, scientific rigor, and relevance to clinical, regulatory, payor, and commercial stakeholders.
• Translate study results into actionable scientific and business recommendations.

Internal and External Communication

• You will bring teams together around a shared RWD vision and represent Adaptive as a thought leader in real-world evidence.
• Communicate the RWD strategy, roadmap, and evidence-generation priorities clearly across internal teams and leadership audiences.
• Build alignment across Product Management, IT Engineering, R&D, Medical, Customer Operations, Market Access, Legal, and commercial stakeholders to ensure RWD initiatives move from strategy to execution.
• Develop scientific communications, including presentations, abstracts, manuscripts, and external-facing materials, translating analyses into clear and compelling insights.
• Represent Adaptive externally with clinical, scientific, regulatory, payor, data partner, and industry audiences as a credible thought leader in real-world data and evidence generation.