Data Scientist (Product Analyst)

U.S. healthcare is frustrating and deeply flawed. Cedar's mission is to drive better outcomes for everyone involved, including providers, insurance companies and the people they serve. At a time when consumer-friendly healthcare experiences are more critical than ever, our platform is uniquely equipped to solve problems that lead to billing issues and administrative waste. At Cedar, know that your work will have a meaningful impact on people's lives.
The Role:
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that leverages data science, consumer-centric design and technology to improve the healthcare experience for patients.
The Data Science team is in charge of making sense of the vast amount of data we have available to help achieve our company's vision. We build analytics for our clients and our teams to inform business decisions and the product development process. We tell stories about all aspects of the patient journey and use quantitative analyses to explain patient behavior. We run experiments to test our various hypotheses and iterate using our results. We build models to drive better decision-making, both within our organization and for our clients in the healthcare industry.
We're seeking a Data Scientist (Product Analyst) on our Data Science team to work with our product development teams to enable data-driven decisions and understand user behavior.
You will use data to help build upon the future of Cedar's products. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to create a better understanding of how patients are using Cedar's products, identify new opportunities for product development and improvement, measure the success of our products, and drive product decisions through data.
Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Product, Design, and Engineering teams to develop an understanding of user behavior and opportunities for product improvement using data
• Drive and influence data focused decision making on product teams to move metrics and improve the patient experience
• Analyze, measure, and track the performance and success of product features
• Identify data insights and recommendations for product teams to act and iterate on
• Ideate, design, and evaluate product experiments
• Perform exploratory research to provide product teams with new ideas and levers to improve impactful metrics
• Build dashboards and visualizations to democratize data insights
• Present and clearly communicate data findings and underlying methodology to partners across all levels of the organization
• Think from the perspective of a user and develop expert intuition of Cedar's data models and product

Skills and Experience:

• At least 4 years of experience in an analytical role
• An analytical attitude and passion for finding opportunities and insights within data
• Understanding of statistical methods for research and experimentation purposes
• Strong presentation skills
• SQL experience required, additional Python experience is a plus
• Knowledge of or experience in the healthcare industry is a plus

What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days-we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar's valuation to $3.2 billion.
Today, Cedar helps over 15 million patients annually-and partners with more than 50 leading healthcare providers, including Yale New Haven Health, Summit Health, Novant Health, Allina Health, Providence, ChristianaCare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, CommonSpirit Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.