Clinical Survey Research Expert – Physician, PhD
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Clinical survey expert designing and validating physician healthcare surveys for Mercor. Supporting AI labs and enterprises by applying clinical and market research expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and refine physician-facing surveys across diseases and therapeutic areas
- Review survey questions for clinical accuracy, medical relevance, clarity, and appropriateness for physician audiences
- Translate complex clinical concepts and research objectives into structured, unbiased survey questions
- Apply market research methodologies to improve questionnaire design, response options, survey flow, and data quality
- Evaluate clinical terminology, treatment pathways, diagnostic criteria, patient management practices, and therapeutic relevance
- Collaborate with research teams to incorporate feedback and maintain consistency across survey projects
- Recommend improvements to survey validity, physician engagement, and overall research quality
- Support projects training and enhancing AI systems using human clinical and research expertise
Requirements:
- Advanced clinical or scientific degree: MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent qualification in medicine, clinical research, or a closely related discipline
- Strong understanding of specific diseases, therapeutic areas, treatment guidelines, and real-world clinical decision-making
- Demonstrated experience designing, writing, reviewing, or validating healthcare professional surveys
- Familiarity with questionnaire design, survey logic, response scales, question bias, and research best practices
- Experience working with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare market research agencies, life sciences consulting firms, or clinical research organisations
- Strong written communication skills and ability to translate complex medical information into clear, actionable survey questions
- 3+ years of experience in healthcare market research, clinical survey development, or related research activities (preferred)
- Previous experience developing surveys targeting physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals (preferred)
- Familiarity with Qualtrics, Forsta, Decipher, Alchemer, or SurveyMonkey (preferred)
- Experience in therapeutic-area-specific market research, including treatment journeys, prescribing behaviour, clinical decision-making, and unmet medical needs (preferred)
- Experience supporting multiple research studies across different disease areas (preferred)
- Must be unable to require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship; Mercor cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
Benefits:
- Ongoing collaboration across multiple healthcare research projects
- Fully remote work
- Flexible schedule; work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive payment
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral opportunity earning up to $800 per successful referral (referral limits apply)
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