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Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
$153,000 - $259,000* The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Clinical Research
Align your credentials to EB-2 requirements
A master's degree in clinical research, life sciences, or a related field positions you for EB-2 classification. If you hold only a bachelor's degree, five or more years of progressive clinical trial experience can satisfy the advanced-degree equivalent standard under PERM.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and academic medical centers sponsor clinical research roles most consistently. Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers who have filed PERM applications for Clinical Research Coordinator and Clinical Research Associate job titles specifically.
Verify your role meets specialty occupation criteria
Before accepting an offer, confirm the job description requires a degree in a specific clinical or scientific discipline. Review the O*NET profile for your target job title to identify the standard education and experience benchmarks DOL auditors reference during PERM review.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at or above the DOL-certified prevailing wage for your job zone and location. Run the OFLC Wage Search using your job title and work-site ZIP code so you negotiate with accurate wage level benchmarks before your offer letter is finalized.
Understand how country backlog affects your EB-3 timeline
For EB-3, nationals of India and China face priority date backlogs that can extend wait times significantly. USCIS publishes the Visa Bulletin monthly, and your effective filing date determines when you can adjust status, so factor this into your employment planning.
Request employer PERM sponsorship during the offer stage
Many clinical research employers sponsor green cards but only raise it when candidates ask directly. Bring it up after receiving a written offer, framing it as a retention commitment. Confirm the employer is enrolled in E-Verify, which is required before PERM recruitment can begin.
Green Card Clinical Research: Frequently Asked Questions
Do clinical research jobs typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Clinical Research Associate and Clinical Research Coordinator roles qualify for EB-3 sponsorship as skilled positions requiring a bachelor's degree. Senior roles such as Clinical Research Manager or Medical Monitor, which require a master's degree or equivalent, often qualify for EB-2. Your employer selects the category based on the actual minimum requirements of the position, not your personal credentials.
How does green card sponsorship through PERM differ from H-1B sponsorship for clinical research professionals?
PERM sponsorship leads to permanent residency rather than a temporary work authorization period. Unlike the H-1B visa, EB-3 green card filings are not subject to an annual lottery, so your employer can file at any time once PERM labor certification is approved. The total timeline from PERM filing through I-140 approval and adjustment of status typically runs two to four years for most countries, though India-born applicants face longer backlogs.
What documentation should I prepare before asking a clinical research employer to sponsor my green card?
Gather official transcripts confirming your degree field, a credential evaluation from a NACES-member organization if your degree is from outside the U.S., and a detailed employment history showing progressive clinical trial experience. If you hold GCP certifications or therapeutic area credentials, include those as well. DOL requires the employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available, so your credentials must clearly match the role's minimum requirements.
How can I find clinical research employers that actively sponsor green cards?
Search Migrate Mate to identify clinical research employers with a documented history of PERM filings for your target job titles. Filtering by role and employer lets you focus outreach on organizations that have already gone through the sponsorship process, which significantly shortens the internal approval cycle compared to approaching employers who have never sponsored before.
Can I change employers during the green card process for a clinical research role?
You can change employers, but the rules depend on where you are in the process. Once your I-140 petition has been approved for 180 days or more, federal law allows you to port to a new employer in the same or similar occupational classification without restarting the PERM process. Clinical research roles within the same SOC code generally qualify for portability. If you change employers before the 180-day threshold, your current PERM and I-140 filings do not transfer.