Senior Director of Applied Data Science and AI, Equip Health
$220-240k
Offers bonus
Virtual treatment program for eating disorders
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Virtual treatment program for eating disorders
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-240k
Offers bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide eating disorder treatment that works to everyone who needs it.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or a related field
- 10+ years in AI/ML engineering with 4+ years in senior leadership overseeing multiple teams
- Deep expertise in LLMs (RAG, grounding, retrieval), traditional ML (classification, regression, unsupervised learning) and statistics (causal inference, multilevel models)
- Experience building high-stakes AI systems within regulated frameworks (HIPAA, CMS) where reliability and safety are non-negotiable
- Hands-on experience with modern tech stacks (Python, Node.Js, Typescript, LLMs, LangChain, n8n, vector databases, PyTorch/TensorFlow, AWS services) and a commitment to enforcing extensible, production-ready code
- Ability to lead a room, align cross-functional teams, and clearly articulate the "why" behind AI investments to non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- As the Senior Director of Applied Data Science & AI, you will sit at the intersection of clinical excellence and cutting-edge technology
- In this pivotal leadership role, you will spearhead our efforts to revolutionize how eating disorders are treated in a virtual environment
- You will lead two high-impact verticals –Applied Data Science and AI Transformation– to build intelligent data products that directly improve patient outcomes and optimize our internal operations
- As a technical leader, you will be comfortable with delegating, mentoring, and diving into code
- Whether it’s building agentic workflows to scale operations, utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to reduce administrative burden for clinicians, developing recommendation engines for personalization of care, forecasting demand to optimize the workforce, or developing predictive models for clinical decision support, your work will be the engine behind our mission to provide world-class eating disorder care virtually at scale
- Strategic Vision: Partner with the SVP of Data, Insights, & AI and other cross-functional leaders to define the roadmap for AI and ML. Collaborate as a peer with other data, product, and engineering leaders to ensure a cohesive data & technology strategy
- Engineering Leadership: Lead a world-class AI/ML organization, including data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and MLOps. Own the end-to-end delivery of AI products using modern practices
- GenAI Strategy and Best Practices: Define methods and best practices for GenAI implementation, including RAG architectures, prompt optimization, and hallucination mitigation, specifically tailored for clinical accuracy
- Clinical Decision Support: Architect AI powered workflows, statistical and machine learning models, and decision trees that assist our clinical team in providing evidence-based, personalized treatment for patients
- AI Transformation: Drive organizational productivity by identifying and executing high-ROI AI automation opportunities across all departments. Build the foundations that enable the successful implementation of AI including knowledge graphs, RAG, prompt and skills library, MCP servers, and agents
- Governance & Safety: Partner with compliance team to implement HIPAA/CMS-aligned governance, automated guardrails, and model observability
- Change Management: Ensure successful adoption and ROI through effective communication, achieving department and enterprise support, and thoughtful change management
- Executive Influence: Lead "value realization" efforts, translating complex technical KPIs into business-driving narratives for stakeholders and clinical partners
- Technical Mentorship: Provide deep-stack guidance on model behavior, failure-mode analysis, and iterative improvement based on production feedback and data drift
- Perform other duties as assigned
- This is a stationary position that requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards as well as to talk or hear by telephone. Sit or stand as needed
Our take
Eating disorders are common in the United States. Roughly 9% of the population, or 28.8 million people, will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. However, long waiting lists and one-size-fits-all approaches that usually do not involve the patient's support network lead to many people suffering without the help they need.
Equip Health provides virtual treatment programs for people with eating disorders, leading treatments with virtual five-person care teams consisting of a therapist, physician, peer mentor, family mentor and dietitian. The family mentor represents the company's Family Based Treatment method, which is designed to empower families to help loved ones overcome their eating disorders.
By holding all sessions virtually and including the family of the patient in their recovery, the company can increase accessibility to eating disorder treatment, reduce its cost, and help more people recover. The value of this proposition has seen Equip Health raise substantial funding, the latest of which is being channelled into growing the team to meet rising demand, and expanding access through partnerships.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$46.7m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $156.4m
Company benefits
- Work in ways that work for you - Flexible PTO & work hours
- Work from home – or close to it - Co-working space stipends
- Comfortably WFH - Home office tech stipend
- Take care of yourself and your most important people - 12 weeks of paid parental leave, short term & long-term disability
- Healthcare and more - Medical, Vision, Dental, HSA & FSA
- We invest in you - 401k program starting day 1
- Open feedback in every direction - Regular coffee with co-founders and ongoing 360 feedback
Company HQ
Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad, CA
Leadership
Kristina Saffran
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder and CEO of Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live, from 2008 to 2019. Was also a Mental Health Advisory Board Member for Verily Life Sciences for 2 years.
Erin Parks, Ph.D
(Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer)Experience as Manager of the Pediatric Clinic for Eating Disorders at UC San Diego Health, where they are an Assistant Professor. Also Founding Operator of the Coalition Network.
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