Vice President of Data Science

Location

Spring, Montgomery County, TX | United States

Job description

Job Location: Remote, United States

Salary: Competive Salary Range: USD$170K-200K

Job description

Our client in the Financial Solutions space has an exciting career opportunity available as a Vice President of Data Science. In order to improve outcomes for their healthcare clients, they are implementing a full data and AI program to increase the reach of its services, driving business growth through the application of modern data science methods. Our client seeks a Data Science Leader to lead the charge on a ready-to-launch program of data and AI initiatives and build the data science roadmap for the organization.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, the Data Science leader will be responsible for:

• Acting as the company-wide data science lead, and managing multiple critical data and AI initiatives aimed at directing the future of data science within the organization
• Coordinating multiple parties to launch data and AI initiatives, beginning in Q1 2024. Key stakeholders include the internal technology organization, business operators and P&L owners, and third-party development partners
• Monitoring, managing, and optimizing program performance.
• Assessing the impact of changes in patient interactions, staff performance, and healthcare provider client account performance.
• Designing and recommending program changes as required
• Clearly communicating program performance and impact to business, finance, and board audiences

This role is currently an individual contributor position with an expectation of team growth in 2024. We expected that job duties will be split between:

• Program and stakeholder (internal and external) management
• Requirements gathering and translation into program design and enhancement
• Hands-on-keyboard programming, modelling, and data analysis

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in a hands-on data science role
• Clear familiarity and comfort with fundamental data science principles (model creation, training, evaluation, ML ops, and internal communication)
• Demonstration of previous close coordination with DBA and dev ops staff is ideal
• Programming experience with some variety of data science, data management, and data visualization tools; for example, R, Python, SQL, SAS, PowerBI
• Familiarity with data warehouses, data architecture, and data operations principles
• Demonstrated experience in managing a data science initiative/program/function within an organization, including accountability to a program outcome, managing internal and external stakeholders (up to C-suite/executive level), and vendor management
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar application lifecycle management tools is an asset
• Healthcare analytics experience is required;
• Revenue cycle management, digital patient engagement/omnichannel engagement are each an asset
• People leadership experience is an asset, but not immediately required. An otherwise aligned candidate with limited/no leadership experience will not be eliminated from consideration on this basis

Benefits
Our client takes pride in offering comprehensive benefits in a vast array of plans that contribute to the present and future well-being of our employees and their families.

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• 401K (100% match for the first 3% & 50% match for the next 2%)
• 15 days of PTO
• 7 paid Holidays
• 2-3 Floating holidays
• Pet Insurance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Teamwork: We believe in teamwork and having fun together
• Career Growth: Gain great experience to promote to higher roles

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, location, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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