Hinge Health
Senior Health Economist
San Francisco-HQ · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 6–10 years designing and conducting health economics studies; 6–10 years working with large-scale claims databases. Preferred: 3+ years with cloud data platforms.
- Education
- PhD in health economics, health services research, or a related field strongly preferred; Master's degree with exceptional applied experience considered.
About the job
Leads health economics research and ROI analyses to demonstrate Hinge Health’s value, inform commercial strategy, and guide product and payer decisions.
What you'll do
- Design and lead health economics studies, including external ROI analyses, and present findings to clients and executives.
- Set research priorities and strategy, including publication goals and methodology development.
- Build scalable analytics infrastructure and mentor junior economists.
What they ask for
- PhD in health economics, health services research, or a related field strongly preferred; a Master's degree with exceptional applied experience is considered.
- 6–10 years designing and conducting health economics studies using advanced econometric methods.
- 6–10 years working with large-scale claims databases, including knowledge of medical billing, CPT/ICD coding, and health insurance requirements.
- Expert-level programming skills in R, SQL, and/or Python, with experience building reproducible, scalable analytical pipelines.
Nice to have
- First-author publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.
- 3+ years with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar cloud data platforms.
Pay
$169.6K – $254.4K USD base salary
Tools
R, SQL, Python, Databricks, Snowflake, Claude, GitHub Copilot
AI focus
Preferred proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude or GitHub Copilot and willingness to drive team adoption of AI workflows.
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