Remote Senior Director

Summary

Join Verana Health as a Senior Director, Data and Science to oversee the Data Development group and drive innovation in healthcare data analysis.

Requirements

• Master’s or doctorate in a quantitative discipline (e.g., data science, computer science, machine learning, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, etc.)
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with state-of-the-art natural large language models (e.g., BERT, Longformer, RoBERTa, etc.) in resolving use cases like named entity recognition (NER), text classification, entity relation extraction, etc
• 5+ years managing technical teams
• Strong familiarity with programming languages, especially Python, Pyspark, R, SQL
• Strong familiarity with coding platforms, especially Databricks, Amazon Sagemaker, Visual Studio Code
• Familiarity with machine learning approaches for clinical imaging data
• Familiarity with clinical datasets, especially those derived from EHR systems
• Clear communication skills and able to deliver internal/external presentations, particularly to executive teams
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including to inform data product roadmap
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives with high attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Oversee group that is addressing clinical problems by developing and leveraging natural language processing approaches to analyze and reason over EHR clinical notes
• Establish and maintain best practices for data exploration, end-to-end model development and deployment lifecycle, and data/code/documentation management
• Work on variable and Qdata development with emphasis on scientific accuracy and explainability to enable commercial projects
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams (e.g., Commercial, Product, Medical, Engineering/Technology, etc.) to provide input into data requirements
• Provide mentorship and knowledge sharing to team members in standardizing machine learning/natural language processing best practices
• Hands-on people management experience

Benefits

• We provide 100% health, vision, and dental coverage for employees
• 401K Match
• Flexible vacation plans
• $700 learning and wellness annual stipend
• $25/wk in Doordash credit
• Headspace meditation app access