Sr. Director, Data Science

Sr. Director, Data Science

The Sr. Director, Data Science thrives in a fast-paced environment and is ready for a challenge. This person is responsible for supporting the development of product roadmaps, achieving optimal design, driving effective prioritization, establishing OKRs, facilitating definitions of business processes and attaining assurance of usability for end users as well as effective delivery of stakeholder requirements. The Sr. Director, Data Science is a data product leader, scientist with organizational leadership experience in the development of technology for data-driven management. They are an integral part of the Technology team in managing team members, coaching, training, and driving collaboration to ensure effective utilization of solutions.

Essential Functions

• Partner with product, clinical, operation and business stakeholders to define and align data science initiatives and roadmap
• Oversee cross-functional execution and implementation of data science initiatives, ensuring consistent alignment between goals at all levels, and translation of effort into value
• Instill and cultivate result-oriented mindset cross-functionally
• Represent data science voice in strategic discussion with a balance between short-term and long-term value-add, customer-facing priorities and non-customer-facing priorities
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships and improve adoption and trust for data science products
• Work with teams on MLOps implementations, ensuring high-quality standards and best practices
• Represent data science perspectives in overarching data system design discussion, ensuring coherence and alignment across data acquisition, management, enrichment, and delivery
• Wear SME hat in applied statistics and applied machine learning when there is gap
• Hands-on involved in the full life cycle of solution development, from scope & definition to delivery
• Manage a high-performing team of Sr. Data Scientists and machine learning engineers
• Coach members with individualized approach, catering towards their interests, strengths, and weaknesses
• Act as a servant leader who guides the team to reach their goals
• Act as a core member of the tech leadership team, contributing to the culture of Strive tech community

Minimum Qualifications

• S. or above in a quantitative field
• 6+ years of full-time experience in building machine learning and/or statistical products and services
• 3+ years of people leadership experience
• 3+ years of experience at a healthcare organization ideally in population health
• Business travel
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and growing a high-performing data science team
• Proven track record of driving cross-functional effort to initiate and deliver high-impact data science projects
• Result-oriented approach with a can-do, entrepreneurial mindset

Annual Salary Range: $147,300.00-$190,100.00