Surgo Health

Communications

• Own Surgo's company-level messaging and evolve it as the company grows
• Establish Behavioral Intelligence as a category and make Surgo the reference point
• Champion a consistent company voice across teams, channels, and spokespeople
• Partner with product marketing so product positioning aligns with the company narrative
• Build and run a thought leadership program for the CEO and senior leaders, including bylines, op-eds, keynotes, podcasts, panels, and executive social presence
• Develop the CEO's perspective on major questions in health, AI, and behavior
• Prepare spokespeople with key messages, talking points, briefing documents, and media training
• Partner with program, research, and behavioral science leads to identify newsworthy findings
• Package research and data for press, social, conferences, and executive audiences, including CEO and board summaries
• Translate technical and data-heavy material into clear, compelling, accurate stories
• Build and lead proactive press strategies across healthcare, AI, technology, health policy, and mainstream health outlets
• Develop story angles, pitch journalists, draft press releases, and manage reporter relationships
• Monitor the news cycle for opportunities to bring Surgo's data and perspective into public conversations
• Support leadership communications for partners and key stakeholders
• Set strategy for Surgo's corporate and CEO social channels and oversee content
• Advise on company-level website and owned-channel content with marketing
• Identify high-value conferences and speaking opportunities and develop content for them
• Report to the CEO
• Build the communications function from the ground up while remaining hands-on

VP of Communications

Research Scientist

• Develop and lead a manuscript around an agreed priority research question
• Build on existing analyses and data, conducting additional analyses as needed
• Produce a submission-ready, publication-quality manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal
• Translate complex survey and causal-modeling findings into insights relevant to global health policy and program design
• Contribute to Surgo Health’s family planning research and thought leadership in LMIC contexts
• Complete analysis for one of three priority papers or propose an original research question
• Synthesize existing findings and/or generate new analyses on family planning behaviors and outcomes
• Apply rigorous quantitative and/or causal inference methods where appropriate
• Draft and revise the manuscript based on Surgo research team feedback
• Collaborate with Surgo research scientists on methodology and framing
• Produce clean, documented analysis code and supporting analytic materials where appropriate
• Attend twice-weekly check-ins with project leads
• Optionally present findings to senior leadership
• Meet milestones for scope, preliminary results, initial manuscript, revisions, and final submission-ready manuscript
• Retain academic independence while following Surgo’s authorship, review, and approval process

Research Fellow – PhD or Postdoctoral, LMIC Family Planning

• Drive development of a national youth thriving dataset spanning four surveys and thousands of young people
• Build and refine the US Youth Mental Health Tracker dataset and turn it into actionable insight
• Transform the YMHT platform from static dashboards into an interactive data-query interface
• Work with the Engineering team to build AI-driven prototypes enabling partners to interrogate YMHT independently
• Lead peer-reviewed manuscripts and validation papers
• Establish YMHT as a scientific authority in youth mental health
• Work alongside research leadership and domain experts on data, measurement, tooling, and rigorous analysis

Senior Research Scientist

• Drive development of a national youth thriving dataset spanning four surveys and thousands of young people
• Transform the YMHT platform from static dashboards into an interactive data-query interface
• Work with the Engineering team to build AI-driven prototypes enabling partners to interrogate YMHT data independently
• Lead peer-reviewed manuscripts and validation papers establishing YMHT as a scientific authority in youth mental health
• Design methods, write rigorous analyses, and engineer systems supporting the US Youth Mental Health Tracker
• Collaborate with research leadership, domain experts, product, and engineering teams