Senior Data Scientist

Virta Health is pioneering a new standard of care for people to reclaim their lives. We are in the midst of a public health crisis: obesity rates are at an all-time high and over half of US adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and despite billions spent on new treatments, outcomes are largely worse. Virta reverses these diseases and  delivers life-changing results by pairing individualized nutrition with ongoing care from a clinical support team. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. 

Role Overview

The Insights & Analytics team is accountable for both pioneering new classes of data that power our business, and ensuring that data is powerful, clear, correct and easy to use throughout the company. The team collaborates closely with the engineering, product development, commercial, and clinical teams to transform data into actionable insights that propel Virta's mission forward.

As a Senior Data Scientist on the Insights & Analytics 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 our client-facing products.  You will also get a chance to work closely with other Commercial Team stakeholders to create impactful data-driven reports and analyses that strengthen Virta’s value proposition.

Responsibilities

• Serve as data lead for the Client Product Squad, inclusive of collaboration on roadmap prioritization, statistical analysis on business data to validate and quantify trends, workflow redesign experimentation, and building
  powerful and clear data pipelines that support our client-facing operations & products

• Lead cross-functional analytics meetings to keep stakeholders apprised of relevant OKRs and experiment outcomes

• Build pipelines that translate clinical, member, and claims data from our data warehouse to inform experimentation and other analytic needs

• Work directly with the Commercial Team to develop and generate reports & analyses that enhance Virta’s value proposition

• Operate within an agile framework, working with your manager and team members to strategically prioritize projects, balancing resources effectively

Must-Haves

• 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

• Experience leading cross-functional efforts to build scalable systems and data pipelines, working with complex data structures

• Ability to explain technology, techniques and approaches to others

Nice-to-Haves

• Worked at a healthcare startup during the growth phase

• Understanding of Generative AI concepts

• Experience building pipelines using dbt

• Experience translating & standardizing medical/pharmacy claims data

• Familiarity with EHR, FHIR data structures

• Demonstrated project management experience

90 Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:

• Familiarize yourself with the Insights & Analytics 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 Client Product Squad to understand team dynamics, analyze key product features and data pipelines, and familiarize yourself with the Squad’s product roadmap

• Analyze current client journey to understand Virta’s technology ecosystem 

• Learn about Virta Health’s different product offerings and our enrollment requirements across them.

• 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

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

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As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $164,996 - $213,090.  Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.

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