Principal Data Scientist, Clinical

Job Description

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be a key partner for Devoted Medical, Devoted’s clinical care function, using data to identify members suitable for specific clinical interventions; enable outreach to those members; and evaluate the effectiveness of that care. You will build robust data pipelines that underpin our products and operations, and build and maintain machine learning models related to clinical risk and appropriateness. Your technical expertise and collaborative approach will foster a data-driven culture, driving key outcomes and operational efficiency.

This high-impact role is essential for Devoted’s success, reporting into our Data Science team and working alongside Product Managers, Software Engineers, Business Intelligence Analysts, and Clinical and Business Leads to solve key challenges for the company. You’ll shape the technical and strategic direction for how Devoted identifies and engages members for clinical care, ensuring that our members get the right care, at the right place, at the right time.

In this role, you will:

• Specialize in clinical operations and outcomes data, developing pipelines that enhance the accuracy of metrics that drive our business.

• Build and maintain machine learning models that provide insights for effective targeting of clinical interventions.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to measure the effectiveness of clinical programs and scale significant workflows during a period of rapid organizational growth.

• Scope, communicate, and implement technical solutions collaboratively, delivering value iteratively while independently executing on agreed-upon plans.

• Develop in a modern stack using agents and stored prompts to enhance coding efficiency.

• Advise stakeholders on evaluating internally developed LLM based agents to improve workflows, and perform data extraction to leverage output of those agents in feature stores and analysis.

Required skills and experience:

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment

• 7+ years of individual technical contributor experience

• Interest and skill in collaborative problem-solving and effective communication

• Advanced SQL skills

• Experience with Python or R

• Background in scoping, building, and maintaining machine learning models

• Comfort with both building scalable, maintainable data pipelines, and doing deep-dive statistical analysis, predictive modeling and/or experimental design to drive business strategies

It would be great if you had background in:

• Healthcare data and related stakeholders

• dbt and/or Looker

• Medicare Advantage

Your responsibilities and impact will include:

• Defining high-impact problems in clinical operations, collaborating with business leads, product managers, engineers, and technical teammates. You’ll identify where data can best drive outcomes and use technology to solve problems and scale Devoted Medical’s operations.

• Leveraging knowledge of clinical and operational data to drive informed business decisions.

• Effectively communicating analysis results and technical concepts, their impact, and their limitations to leaders and teams with varying technical backgrounds.

• Working with the Devoted Medical team to build out data warehousing infrastructure in Snowflake, enabling our BI partners to create a robust Looker reporting layer and improving Devoted’s internal operating platform.

• Applying analytics techniques (eg. statistics, machine learning, language-based techniques) to improve the speed and accuracy of our processes

• Leading contributions to a proactive, engaged team with a positive work ethic and a culture of inclusion and collaboration.
  
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  Salary range: $128,057- $187, 083 annually

Our ranges are purposefully broad to allow for growth within the role over time. Once the interview process begins, your talent partner will provide additional information on the compensation for the role, along with additional information on our total rewards package. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Our Total Rewards package includes:

• Employer sponsored health, dental and vision plan with low or no premium

• Generous paid time off

• $100 monthly mobile or internet stipend

• Stock options for all employees

• Bonus eligibility for all roles excluding Director and above; Commission eligibility for Sales roles

• Parental leave program

• 401K program

• And more....

*Our total rewards package is for full time employees only. Intern and Contract positions are not eligible.

Healthcare equality is at the center of Devoted’s mission to treat our members like family. We are committed to a diverse and vibrant workforce.

At Devoted Health, we’re on a mission to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for every person like family. That’s why we’re gathering smart, diverse, and big-hearted people to create a new kind of all-in-one healthcare company — one that combines compassion, health insurance, clinical care, service, and technology - to deliver a complete and integrated healthcare solution that delivers high quality care that everyone would want for someone they love. Founded in 2017, we've grown fast and now serve members across the United States. And we've just started. So join us on this mission!

Devoted is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a safe and supportive work environment in which all employees have the opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business. We value diversity and collaboration. Individuals are respected for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in Devoted’s Code of Conduct, our company values and the way we do business.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy status, marital status, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.