Director, Data Science
Location
California
Posted
12 hours ago
Salary
$198.2K - $297.3K / year
Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Develop and deploy scalable machine learning and AI solutions in production environments, ensuring performance and sustainability
• Build and refine models for customer segmentation, risk prediction, clinical decision support, and other healthcare-specific use cases
• Ensure rigorous use of statistical methods, reproducibility, and documentation across all projects
• Design and implement statistical tests, A/B experiments, and performance monitoring strategies
• Evaluate ML/AI models and products for fairness in output, targeting and actions
• Partner with stakeholders to define problem statements, identify data sources, and design effective solutions
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines, modeling workflows, and monitoring tools in collaboration with engineering and data platform teams
• Partner with senior and executive leadership to define and advance the enterprise AI roadmap, identifying high-impact opportunities to embed ML and AI services into core business workflows
• Lead multiple high-impact data science projects across areas including Clinical, STARs, Risk Adjustment, Claims, Pharmacy, Marketing and Member Experiences
• Manage and mentor a team of data scientists; provide technical guidance via review of code, models, and analytical approaches; foster professional growth; and drive a culture of experimentation and continuous learning
Job Requirements
- Minimum 7 + years professional work experience as a data scientist, engineer or developing ML/ AI solutions
- 5 + years of deep technical experience analyzing and modeling structured, semi-structured and unstructured data using machine learning / predictive modeling
- Record of delivering ML/AI projects in production environments
- Demonstrated success in hiring great data scientists and growing junior team members through mentoring, collaboration and coaching
- Experience in healthcare or other highly regulated industry (preferred)
- Experience with embedding approaches, vector databases and RAG (preferred)