Senior Director - Data and Science

September 27

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Verana Health

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Ophthalmology • Connectivity • Health Analytics • Neurology • EHRs

51 - 200 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🧬 Biotechnology

💰 $150M Series E on 2022-01

Description

• Verana Health is looking for a Senior Director with a background in machine learning, especially on healthcare data, as well as experience managing a technical team. • Oversee group that is addressing clinical problems by developing and leveraging: • natural language processing approaches to analyze and reason over EHR clinical notes • deep learning techniques to classify and segment clinical images. • Establish and maintain best practices for data exploration, end-to-end model development and deployment lifecycle, and data/code/documentation management • Work on variable and Qdata development with emphasis on scientific accuracy and explainability to enable commercial projects • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams (e.g., Commercial, Product, Medical, Engineering/Technology, etc.) to provide input into data requirements • Provide mentorship and knowledge sharing to team members in standardizing machine learning/natural language processing best practices. • Hands-on people management experience

Requirements

• Master’s or doctorate in a quantitative discipline (e.g., data science, computer science, machine learning, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, etc.) • 10+ years of hands-on experience with state-of-the-art natural large language models (e.g., BERT, Longformer, RoBERTa, etc.) in resolving use cases like named entity recognition (NER), text classification, entity relation extraction, etc. • 5+ years managing technical teams • Strong familiarity with programming languages, especially Python, Pyspark, R, SQL • Strong familiarity with coding platforms, especially Databricks, Amazon Sagemaker, Visual Studio Code • Familiarity with machine learning approaches for clinical imaging data • Familiarity with clinical datasets, especially those derived from EHR systems • Clear communication skills and able to deliver internal/external presentations, particularly to executive teams • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including to inform data product roadmap • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives with high attention to detail

Benefits

• We provide 100% health, vision, and dental coverage for employees • 401K Match • Flexible vacation plans • $700 learning and wellness annual stipend • $25/wk in Doordash credit • Headspace meditation app access