Senior Data Scientist, Well
$120-140k
All-in-one health guidance platform
Job no longer available
All-in-one health guidance platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$120-140k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the world's most effective partner in the advancement of individualized health.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years’ of work/industry experience in data science or machine learning roles
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative field. Strong grasp and theoretical understanding of statistics and machine learning
- Demonstrated experience using Python for data analysis and machine learning (numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, xgboost, pytorch, spacy, huggingface, pymc3/stan)
- Proficiency with SQL and databases
- Experience using Unix/OSX from the command line, version control (Git), and general software development best practices for contributing to a collaborative code base
- Experience executing analyses in the cloud (GCP, AWS)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills required. Ability to communicate technical modeling concepts and relevant aspects of modeling platforms to non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- Reporting To: Senior Director of Data Science and Machine Learning
- The overall goal is to engage our members to drive better health outcomes. Our modeling and optimization platform (the Health Engine) contributes directly to our product through machine learning, statistics, analysis, and computation
- The next member of our team will drive projects from beginning to end: frame business questions, collect and analyze data, research, prototype models, build/deploy pipelines, and share insights
- They will work collaboratively within a team aiming to make a positive impact on the organization and on our members overall health
- Create predictive models using current and emerging methodologies in machine learning. Help improve our recommendation engines, natural language processing/understanding, member reward pricing, marketing optimizations, clinical analytics, and enhance our data-driven decision making
- Leverage and utilize a wide range of disparate data sources across healthcare (member, payor, employer, provider, partner). Apply a detailed understanding of healthcare data and analyze large longitudinal health datasets
- Develop and contribute to our data and machine learning ecosystem working to run experiments and deploy models to production environments and that operate effectively at scale
- Provide statistical modeling expertise within the team and across the organization
Our take
Mobile health-tracking apps have become popular over the last decade, but existing platforms often provide uniform services as opposed to personalizing each user's experience. In addition to this, incentives to regularly use an app are generally focused on mobile notifications and manual tracking systems, features that require manual data entry and are easy to ignore.
Well provides a digital health platform that leverages member health data to provide users with a personalized and all-in-one platform for improving their health. Instead of relying on notifications and uniform systems, member data is used to deliver daily health recommendations from AI clinicians, loyalty rewards, and direct support tools.
With many apps on the market for different health points, the digital health tracking landscape is very saturated, yet Well is taking a unified approach to providing personalized and authentic experiences for users. The platform aims to provide guidance that is actionable and engaging, as opposed to just another mobile app that is used on an occasional health kick.
Freddie
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.3)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$30m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$71.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $236.9m
Company benefits
- A hybrid work policy that allows for both in-person and remote work for most roles
- 18 days of paid time off and 9 paid holidays
- Volunteer Time Off program to support individual values and volunteer activities that enhance and serve the communities in which we live and work
- Free coffee and snacks in the office as well as fun social events
- Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, whether through birth or adoption of a child, as a benefit of employment in order to support the health and wellbeing of the whole family and equitable opportunity for career advancement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tax-advantaged HSA or FSA for healthcare, dependent care, and commuter benefits
- 401(k) and short- and long-term disability and life insurance coverage at no cost to the employee
- Learning Time Off each quarter to support learning and career development
Company HQ
Chapel Hill, NC
Leadership
Gary Loveman
(Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO)They started their career as an HBS professor following an Economics Ph.D. at MIT. They worked as EVP of Aetna in Consumer Health Services and as CEO of Caesar's Entertainment Company, before co-founding Well with David.
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