Director of Applied Science, Garner Health
$439-460k
OTE
Target total comp is inclusive of base + bonus. + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Financial District, NY)
Data-powered doctor search tool
Posted today
Data-powered doctor search tool
201-500 employees
Posted today
$439-460k
OTE
Target total comp is inclusive of base + bonus. + Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Financial District, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the healthcare economy, delivering high quality and affordable care for all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in applied science, quantitative research, machine learning, or a closely related field, including significant time spent personally building algorithmic systems; a relevant advanced degree is preferred
- A track record of running an algorithms-driven organization as a business — owning both the technical results and the accountability for them (for example, leading a quantitative research group at a hedge fund, or an algorithms or ML organization at a top technology company)
- Management experience, including managing managers and scaling a high-performing technical team through hiring, development, and performance management
- Deep quantitative and applied problem-solving skills, with the judgment to set the standard for how a large organization defines metrics and selects methods
- Recognized technical authority, with the credibility to lead scientists who are experts in their own right
- Strong judgment in choosing between statistical models, heuristics, optimization approaches, and simpler algorithmic methods — and in knowing when each is worth the investment
- Executive communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment across an organization and with its leadership and board
- A desire to be a part of a high-performing, mission-driven team that operates with intense urgency, a strong sense of individual accountability, and a commitment to authentic feedback
What the job involves
- We are seeking an exceptional Director of Applied Science to lead Garner Health Intelligence (GHI)
- The backbone of all of Garner’s products, GHI is responsible for Garner’s best-in-class doctor rankings across every medical subspecialty, as well as other foundational data assets
- GHI is also the product owner of Garner Insights, the enterprise data platform that we sell to healthcare providers
- Our members and customers rely on this work to answer hard questions: Which doctors are truly high quality? What will their care cost? Which providers are driving poor outcomes in a given network? The quality of those answers is determined by the algorithms your team builds
- This is not an Applied Science function charged with advising the business; you will own the business
- You will set the technical direction, build and develop a world-class team, own the production systems end-to-end, and answer for both the outcomes and the commercial results they drive
- You’ll manage a team of applied scientists, clinical researchers, and product managers, and will work closely with data and ML Ops engineering
- The closest analog outside healthcare is the head of a quantitative trading group at a top hedge fund — someone who has done the work themselves and has since built and led the organization that does it at scale
- Lead a team of applied scientists and clinical researchers to build and evolve Garner’s foundational doctor-ranking and other doctor categorization algorithms
- Own the roadmap and standards for Garner Health Intelligence
- Build, lead, and develop the GHI organization across Applied Science, Clinical Research, and Garner Insights, hiring and growing both ICs and managers
- Be accountable for the business results of GHI, including the success of our rankings in improving healthcare cost and quality, as well as the commercial performance of Garner Insights
- Stay close enough to the work to personally shape the hardest, most ambiguous problems — setting the objective functions, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks the team builds against
- Decide where to invest, from machine learning to optimization to heuristics to simpler methods, and direct the team's effort to where it moves the company most
- Partner with the executive team and cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, Clinical, and Commercial to align GHI with company strategy
- Build a deep understanding of the healthcare economy and Garner's place in it, and represent GHI at the highest level inside and outside the company
- Technologies we use:
- Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, pandas, XGBoost, PyTorch, HuggingFace, modern LLM tooling and eval frameworks. We pick tools based on the problem, not the resume — bring your judgment
- This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company in a transformative role, helping shape the future of healthcare
Our take
An overworked US healthcare system has resulted in long waits and expensive prices, meaning that patients can't access the care that they need. Garner Health creates digital services that allow patients to find a medical expert that fits their specific needs, whatever their insurance circumstances are.
The startup provides an app that analyses local health-insurance claims history through AI. This data is used to recommend local medical professionals that will work with a patient's circumstances whilst providing direct communication channels for liaising. This helps patients to identify the highest-quality doctors and helps doctors improve how they practice medicine.
Despite other companies providing similar bespoke healthcare services, Garner Health shows a cutting edge by partnering with patient employers. This provides the financial incentive that employers must cover all or a portion of medical expenses, making healthcare financially accessible for all involved. The company has good funding at its back, and back in 2022 partnered with Marathon Health towards reducing the inefficiencies of specialty referrals.
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Insights
142% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2026
$100m
SERIES E
Feb 2026
$118m
SERIES D
Total funding: $279.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Garner for Garner (employees enrolled in a Garner medical plan gain access to the Garner benefit to find Top Providers and get reimbursed for eligible expenses)
- Hybrid and remote work
- Team meets twice each year to spark innovation and foster belonging
- Variety of social programs beyond work hours
- Equal paid parental leave (12 weeks) following the birth, adoption or placement of a child
- 401(k) plan with a 2% company match and immediate vesting
- Other financial benefits such as Flexible Spending Accounts and mortgage assistance
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Nick Reber
(CEO & Founder)Studied Mathematics at Brown before joining Bridgewater Associates as a Senior Investment Associate in 2006. Left Bridgewater in 2016 to join Oscar Health's Leadership Team. Founded Garner in 2018.
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