Surgo Health

Director

• Set the vision and strategy for Surgo’s mental health portfolio
• Develop and own the overarching strategy for Surgo’s mental health work and products, with a focus on youth mental health, foundational data sets, product-first engagements, and scalable social impact.
• Translate Surgo’s behavioral data assets, products, and AI capabilities into a clear portfolio of mental health offerings for philanthropic, non-profit, and public sector partners.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of key initiatives, including the US Youth Mental Health Tracker, a new UK mental health project, and additional programs as the portfolio grows.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team (e.g., behavioral scientists, data scientists, policy experts, program managers) working across mental health projects.
• Ensure projects are designed and executed to generate rigorous, actionable insights and tangible change in policy, funding, and practice.
• Provide strategic guidance on study design, insight generation and translation of data to maximize impact.
• Identify, shape, and pursue new opportunities with philanthropic, non-profit, and public sector partners aligned with Surgo’s data-focused mission and capabilities.
• Work closely with partners to understand their strategic priorities and pain points, and co-develop work that leverages Surgo’s data and tools to address them.
• Lead the development of concept notes, proposals, and pitch materials that clearly articulate Surgo’s value proposition in mental health.
• Help inform Surgo’s product and data roadmap based on insights from the field and partner feedback.
• Develop compelling presentations, briefs, and reports that translate complex data and insights into clear, actionable recommendations for diverse audiences.
• Contribute to thought leadership through public speaking, publications, and other external engagements on youth mental health, behavioral drivers, and equity.

Senior Director, Mental Health

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Analyze current and past financial data and performance to make recommendations and create dashboards
• Consistently analyze financial information based on both routine and ad-hoc reports
• Interpret financial data to recognize changing trends, patterns, and their meaning related to key performance indicators
• Communicate financial insights suggesting business issues to management

Financial Analyst

Research Scientist

• Drive high-impact research across a wide range of activities, from advanced data analytics and literature reviews to instrument design, development of novel data sources, and creation of compelling reports and presentations that inform global health decision-making.
• Shape the future of health equity through innovation by taking full ownership of your work, experiment boldly, and use your creativity and technical expertise to uncover insights that improve health outcomes for underserved populations worldwide.
• Advance methodological excellence by pioneering new analytical approaches, technologies, and data sources that strengthen the scientific foundation of our global health programs.
• Collaborate across disciplines to scale impact, working closely with our Product, Client Engagement, and R&D teams to design and deliver data- and AI-powered solutions that help solve some of the most pressing health challenges across low- and middle-income countries.

Research Scientist – Global Health

• Deliver on a wide range of research activities such as data analytics, literature review, instrument development, development of novel data sources, compiling reports and slide decks
• Innovate, experiment, and deliver with unlimited ownership: impact the direction of the organization with your creativity and technical know-how.
• Innovate with new methodologies, analytical technologies, and data sources
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Client Engagement, and R&D teams to deliver data and AI-powered solutions

Backend Engineer

• Build out and scale backend systems for our AI-powered interview platform
• Design, implement, and maintain production-ready APIs that support AI-driven features
• Help shape and evolve our system architecture for scalability, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate closely with the product team to deliver new features.
• Support and enforce best practices for backend engineering, monitoring, testing, and code quality
• Work with cloud infrastructure (Azure) to deploy, monitor, and optimize backend services
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance in the design and handling of sensitive healthcare-related data
• Take ownership of features from design to production, with autonomy and accountability
• Contribute to shaping our engineering culture and infrastructure as we grow

Data Engineer

• - Productionize Databricks notebooks created by our Scientists
• - Create, manage, and enhance data pipelines that support ML and analytics workflows
• - Support and collaborate closely with our Head of Engineering
• - Improve and maintain our cloud-based data infrastructure on Azure and AWS
• - Help support and enforce best practices for data engineering, curation, and notebook development
• - Work cross-functionally to ensure data products align with our platform principles and scientific goals
• - Build scalable and efficient pipelines that connect raw data and metadata to insights and products
• - Help evolve our use of the Databricks platform, and our broader Azure/AWS cloud environments
• - Translate Python/SQL/R code from exploration to production-grade
• - Be a hands-on partner to Scientists, supporting their work and helping scale their models
• - Contribute to shaping our engineering culture and infrastructure as we grow

Manager

• Lead relationship management and coordination with in-country data collection agency
• Ensure high quality respondent recruitment, data collection, and documentation
• Support in developing and evaluating novel digital recruitment strategies, including accessing high quality contact databases
• Play a critical role in overseeing selection of interviewers and enumerators and ensuring they are trained and implement fieldwork
• Liaise with technical team of behavioral and research scientists to develop research protocol and implementation fidelity plan
• Accompany field teams on-field and closely shadow work to gather high quality data and insights
• Support insight generation and implications for interventions alongside core technical team
• Support dissemination of research findings to partners and government stakeholders
• Draft field operation plans, training modules, discussion guides, research protocols
• Manage the relationship with data collection agency on a day to day basis
• Ensure high quality training of interview and survey teams on quantitative and qualitative methods to ensure high quality data collection
• Manage coordination and relationship with research implementation teams
• Support detailed photo, video, and written documentation for all research
• Oversee fieldwork implementation to ensure data quality; develop data quality protocols
• Identify
• Support development/modification of data collection instruments as directed by the team
• Devise data quality audit methods and reports and take corrective actions to ensure excellent data quality