Counsel’s mission is to multiply the world's healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we’re building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We’ve redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter. [learn more on our blog]
Since our founding in 2023, we have formed partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and are on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year. We have raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, Pear VC and other top-tier VC firms.
Our team combines deep expertise in medicine (Harvard, Mt. Sinai, Mass General, UCSF) and technology (MIT, Google, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stripe, Meta) — and we’re looking for exceptional people to join us as we scale.
Join us as we build the future of AI in healthcare!
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About the RoleWe're hiring a Founding Data Analyst to join our FinOps team and build the data foundation that powers Counsel's growth. This is an early-stage, high-impact founding role spanning data wrangling and pipeline development, defining and tracking core operating metrics, and improving reporting and operational workflows across the business.
You'll work directly with our SVP, Finance & Operations and collaborate across Commercial/GTM, Finance, Clinical Ops, and Operations. Instead of owning a small slice of the business, you'll gain broad exposure and take on increasing responsibility as you help build and improve the systems that keep the company running and scaling. This role will have executive level cross functional partnership and requires the ability to connect dots across stakeholders in various organizations.
What you'll doBuild and maintain the data foundation that will power the entire company.
Support the data needs of stakeholders across every function at the company. This will range from product metrics, commercial / client reporting, internal financial and operating metrics.
Build the Operating Scorecard and management dashboards so the entire team can have visibility on business performance and one source of truth.
Partner with Analytics Engineer to validate pipelines and metric definitions.
Turn messy datasets into answers people can act on.
Build and adopt AI-powered tools and workflows that make FinOps faster and efficient.
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (CS, statistics, applied math, or similar), with meaningful programming experience
3-5 years in a data, analytics, or finance/ops role
Strong SQL, and Python or a similar language to be dangerous
Comfort with data that's messy and real, the kind you dig into instead of flagging as someone else's problem. An inherent desire to be a truth seeker
Executive presence to represent senior leaders in cross functional discussions
Genuinely curious about AI tools, and quick to find ways they can cut manual work out of your own workflow
Experience with dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, or BigQuery
Experience in healthcare or healthtech
A track record of ramping quickly into new tools, since many of ours are still being built
Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs
Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup
Compensation: Competitive salary + equity
Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave
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Our ValuesPatients come first.
We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision.Innovate with optimism.
We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows.Right answer wins.
Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team.Simplicity over complexity.
We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team.Do fewer things, well.
We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (CS, statistics, applied math, or similar)
- 3-5 years in a data, analytics, or finance/ops role
- Strong SQL skills
- Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and foundations
- Experience building dashboards and operating scorecards for management
- Comfort working with messy, real-world data and strong data wrangling skills
- Executive presence and ability to represent senior leaders in cross-functional discussions
- Genuine curiosity about AI tools and ability to adopt them to improve workflows
- Experience with dbt
- Experience with Airflow
- Experience with Snowflake
- Experience with BigQuery
- Experience in healthcare or healthtech
- Proven ability to ramp quickly into new tools
Counsel Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Counsel Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Counsel Health.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered partially transparent as several current listings publish salary bands for roles like physicians and engineers, suggesting market‑aligned ranges for an early‑stage startup. These posted bands provide directional insight even if not all functions display ranges.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage across multiple postings. This breadth aligns with common expectations for venture‑backed startups.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Roles commonly cite unlimited PTO, with several postings also calling out parental leave. This indicates a wide time‑off offering on paper for many positions.
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What We Do
Counsel Health delivers AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care through a secure messaging-based experience. Built with enterprise-grade safety standards and AI safety guardrails, Counsel partners with health plans, consumer health solutions, employers, and health systems to provide a modern front door to care that significantly improves member access while ensuring clinical quality. By replacing outdated access points like nurse advice lines and legacy telehealth, Counsel helps organizations reduce high-cost claims, increase utilization of existing health solutions, and improve engagement, all while delivering care that is reliable, cost-effective, and scalable.







