Lead Data Scientist

Summary

Join Stellar Health as our first product-focused Lead Data Scientist! Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams to optimize our innovative incentive strategy. You will leverage your expertise to build production-ready statistical and predictive models, impacting patient care and driving positive change in the US healthcare system. This role requires 10+ years of data science experience, advanced degree, and strong communication skills. You will be responsible for data preparation, modeling, analysis, and collaboration with engineering teams. Stellar offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of data science, analytics or machine learning experience
• Hands on experience with data engineering, predictive modeling and experimentation / causal inference methods
• Senior-level engineering & coding skills – you will be collaborating closely with engineers and contributing to important data pipelines and production systems
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical analyses to non-technical audiences
• Advanced degree in data science / machine learning / statistics

Responsibilities

• Understand and prepare high quality datasets. Data science cannot exist without clean, well-understood data, and we want someone who can roll up their sleeves to do table stakes data engineering work. You’ll dig into new & existing data sets, be curious about business needs & edge cases, and deeply understand how data flows through our system
• Accurately model data, clean it when necessary and ensure critical code you write is well-tested
• Perform thoughtful, quick analyses to enable important decisions. You’ll be at the forefront of understanding what makes our business tick, and you’ll be posed many questions for which no one yet has an answer. You’ll need to thrive in ambiguity and decision making with imperfect or partial visibility
• Build production-ready statistical and predictive models. Your work will help us better model our provider & patient populations, and in some cases, predict what interventions we should deploy . You’ll need to be comfortable with Engineering collaborations and what it means to move something from an offline ad-hoc insight to an online, automated system that impacts thousands of providers and millions of patients every day
• Lead, collaborate and communicate well with others. You’ll be our primary expert in data science and machine learning techniques, and we’ll be looking to you to both do exceptional technical work and to bring others along. You’ll sometimes need to teach and educate others on best practices for data science and predictive modeling
• Get things done and advance our mission. We’re all here to help reshape the US healthcare system into something that delivers more value with lower costs. We want someone who understands this urgency and is equally inspired by the mission to get as much done as quickly as possible to help our providers and patients

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams
• Healthcare experience

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Universal Paid Family Leave
• Company sponsored One Medical memberships and Citibike memberships
• Medical Travel Benefits
• A monthly wellness stipend that gives employees the freedom to choose where they spend their cash, whether it be on wellness, pet care, childcare, WFH items, or charitable donations
• Stock Options & a 401k matching program
• Career development opportunities like Manager Training, coaching, and an internal mobility program
• A broad calendar of company sponsored social events that for our in-office and remote employees
• The salary range for the Lead Data Scientist is $175,000 - $220,000 and will be eligible for an annual performance based bonus and equity grant