Senior Data Scientist, Virta Health

• Experience working at a digital health or similar startup, preferably during the growth phase, in order to function effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• 7+ years of experience in a Healthcare Analytics or Data Science role, working with large datasets and conducting statistical and quantitative modeling, melding analytics with strong programming, data mining, clustering and segmentation
• 5+ years of work experience working data science and visualization tools (SQL, R, and/or Python)
• Advanced understanding of data storage, ETL frameworks, data transformation, and validation
• Experience in building BI dashboards using tools such as Looker or Tableau
• Ability to explain technology, techniques and approaches to others

Desirable

• As a Senior Data Scientist on the AAA team, you will play a crucial role in shaping our data-driven decision making processes and in driving impactful insights that advance our mission.
• This role offers a unique blend of hands-on coding and strategic leadership, working closely in partnership with the Product Development group that supports adoption of our member-facing products. You will get a chance to work closely with stakeholders to create impactful data-driven reports and analyses that strengthen Virta’s value proposition
• Serve as data lead for the Adoption Squad:
• Understand the product – strategy, goals, roadmap, users – deeply enough to identify high-impact, strategic opportunities and risks
• Use data to steer conversations: bring data-driven hypotheses, challenge assumptions, frame trade-offs, prioritize strategically
• Translate vague product hunches into sharp analytical questions, and design the right approach to answer them
• Be the source of truth for KPIs and product metrics: help define and monitor them, and identify trends and drivers
• Drive decision making with data: Prioritize analyses that meaningfully inform product decisions and change outcomes, reframe analysis requests that won’t do that into ones that will, and design and deliver the resulting analyses properly and rapidly
• Lead experimentation thoughtfully: guide the team on when and when not to experiment, help enable self-serve experimentation, and focus on frequent, small experiments to speed learning
• Identify where product strategy and ideas could be better, more easily, or more quickly implemented with the help of AI (ML or GenAI), and help enable this integration
• Show up as a collaborative leader, not simply a service provider, and help focus work on what matters most
• Work end-to-end to translate clinical, member, and claims data from our data warehouse into actionable recommendations: work with stakeholders to design reports and dashboards that answer real business questions, design the data flows to support these, and build the required data transformation pipelines
• Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
• Familiarize yourself with the Advanced Analytics & AI team roles and responsibilities. Get a pulse on team structure, key stakeholders, and areas for opportunity with an eye towards scalability and standardization
• Integrate with the Adoption Squad to understand team dynamics, analyze key product features and data pipelines, and familiarize yourself with the Squad’s product roadmap
• Analyze current member journey to understand Virta’s technology ecosystem
• Meet cross-functional stakeholders to understand how their business needs align with Squad and Team goals
• Identify at least 1 area of opportunity to leverage GenAI to increase team efficiency or improve our processes
• Teach and inspire your team members through knowledge sharing, pair programming, and giving feedback during code reviews