Director, Research

Good Rx is the leading prescription savings platform in the U.S. Trusted by more than 25 million consumers and 750,000 healthcare professionals annually, Good Rx provides access to savings and affordability options for generic and brand-name medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, as well as comprehensive healthcare research and information. Since 2011, Good Rx has helped consumers save nearly $75 billion on the cost of their prescriptions.

Our goal is to help Americans find convenient and affordable healthcare. We offer solutions for consumers, employers, health plans, and anyone else who shares our desire to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.

The Good Rx Research team combines internal and external data to uncover insights about medicine, drug pricing, and the U.S. healthcare system. We turn those insights into rigorous research, data-rich content, new products, and stories that help millions of people understand their medication options. Our work has been featured by leading media organizations and developed in collaboration with researchers at institutions including Stanford, Harvard, and Duke.

Good Rx is seeking a Director, Research to lead our research function and team. This is a balanced player/coach role: you will set the function’s strategy and operating rhythm, develop and support a high-performing team, and personally lead important research projects from question definition through publication and impact measurement.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in health economics, drug pricing, and quantitative research; sound judgment about how to answer complex and ambiguous questions; and the ability to explain rigorous methods and nuanced findings clearly to non-technical audiences. You will partner with team leads across the company to identify the questions that matter most, translate company priorities into a focused research roadmap, and ensure that our work informs decisions across Good Rx and beyond.

• Set the vision, strategy, and quarterly roadmap for the Research function, translating Good Rx priorities and external developments into a focused portfolio of high-impact work. This research will include both consumers as well as healthcare professionals.

• Lead, coach, and develop the Research team, including setting expectations, supporting performance and growth, and building the capabilities needed for the function’s next stage.

• Establish team goals, KPIs, and operating processes that make progress, quality, and impact visible to cross-functional partners and leaders across the company.

• Serve as a hands‑on research leader by owning some high priority projects end‑to‑end, from framing the question and designing the methodology to analyzing data, communicating findings, and measuring impact.

• Apply health economics, statistical, and data science methods to investigate issues and trends in healthcare, medication access, and drug pricing.

• Use internal and external data sources to develop analyses, models, visualizations, and research products that are accurate, useful, and compelling.

• Define research scope, methods, and standards; make sound tradeoffs among rigor, speed, and relevance.

• Identify opportunities to improve existing datasets, partnering with cross‑functional teams or with external vendors/partners.

• Translate complex findings into clear narratives, including articles, blog posts, recurring reports, white papers, briefings, and other content for technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Partner effectively with PR, Editorial, Marketing, Government Affairs, Strategy, Sales, B2B Marketing, Product, and other teams to identify priority Research opportunities and extend impact.

• Advise senior leaders on research…