Research Associate
About the role
About Us
Our mission is to improve people’s health by making it easy to live a healthy lifestyle.
Nourish was founded to address a fundamental failure in the U.S. healthcare system: the rapid rise of chronic disease, which affects hundreds of millions of Americans and drives the majority of healthcare spending. Despite the clear role of nutrition and lifestyle in preventing, managing, and reversing these conditions, care has remained fragmented and inaccessible. Nourish has built the country's largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic. We’re an AI-native digital health system matching patients with 10,000+ Registered Dietitians, physicians, medications, lab testing, and AI agents to deliver insurance-covered care across all 50 states. Founded four years ago, we've completed millions of appointments, tripled year-over-year, and partnered with health plans covering 200M+ Americans across 250+ health systems.
In 2026 we raised a Series C, bringing total funding to $215M. The round was led by GV Ventures, with participation from Thrive Capital, Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator, and other investors.
Our clinical philosophy
Our approach to care is grounded in meeting patients where they are and using evidence-based practices to drive long-term lifestyle, behavioral, and metabolic change. Our interdisciplinary care team provides personalized, in-depth, and expert-level care to patients from any and all backgrounds. We measure quality of outcomes against each patient’s individual goals, coordinate seamlessly across care teams (RDs, NPs, physicians, outside providers), and continuously refine our approach through data, feedback and innovation.
About the Role
As our first Research Associate, you will play a foundational role in building the operational infrastructure that makes Nourish's prospective clinical research possible — owning the systems, processes, and study execution from protocol design through data collection, and helping translate research plans into published outputs and high-impact commercial evidence.
This is a highly hands-on role for a strong individual contributor who thrives in ambiguity and is excited to build. You'll design and execute IRB protocols for strategically important clinical studies, manage patient enrollment, draft white papers, conference abstracts, and contribute to peer-reviewed publications, and work closely with clinical operations, product, data, and commercial partners to ensure our research is both rigorous and operationally sound.
This person will report into our Head of Research and work closely with our clinical operations, product, data, and commercial teams. This role is full-time and open to NYC-based or remote candidates. Our office is located in Gramercy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and execute IRB protocols — Own prospective study protocols from design through IRB approval and enrollment launch; manage consent processes and patient enrollment for high-priority clinical research studies
- Build cross-functional research infrastructure — Partner with Clinical Operations, Product, and Data teams to create systems for