Company Overview:
Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled. That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.
Opportunity overview
We are looking for a Lead Data Specialist to come join our awesome team. As the Lead Data Specialist your responsibility will be to make sure data in our application and analytics platform is trustworthy, reliable, organized and well managed to support real-time transactions and downstream analytics needs. You will be the data steward of key data assets for our organization - improving the governance and useability of the data. You will work with engineering, products, analytics, clinical and operations to improve data quality, ensure proper data use, and improve data literacy. The work will be fast-paced yet enterprise-centric, with evolving needs - requiring discipline, flexibility, curiosity, and grace under pressure.
At a growing organization, this is a position that offers the ability to make a substantive mark on the company and its partners with exponential growth opportunities. You will be part of the Data & AI organization and build one Cohere data platform to support our downstream teams to optimize patient care paths.
What you will do:
- Drive best practices in data and information management throughout Cohere’s application and analytic platforms
- Work cross-functionality to establish and maintain enterprise data catalog, capturing business, clinical & operational nuance and specificity, including data lineage and metric definitions
- Provide training and support to promote data discoverability and establish guardrail to ensure proper data use
- Work with data producers, data engineering, and consumers to establish and maintain data contracts and data quality standards
- Monitoring and maintaining data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness
- Accelerate our “shift left” data governance framework, including adherence to standards related to data validation, storage, and management
- Collaborate with compliance and IT to establish proper data security and privacy controls
Your background & requirements:
- Bachelor in health informatics, data analytics, or related areas (Masters preferred)
- 5+ years data experience at health technology company where health outcomes were critical to the mission, preferably a healthcare analytics company or population health organization
- Passionate about improving the U.S. healthcare system and helping ensure every patient receives the best care possible
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with health technology data, including administrative, clinical and patient outcome data, conducting in-depth analysis to support data-driven decision making
- Expertise in data governance practices, including data cataloging, lineage, and quality management
- Proven track record in leading through influence, ability to drive cross-functional complex data projects in a fast-paced and high-intensity “scale-up” environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with business, technical, and clinical leaders to define and govern data quality metrics
We can't wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it's personal.
The salary range for this position is $115,000.00 to $135,000.00 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.
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What We Do
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.
Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.
Why Work With Us
Cohere Health brings together a community of healthcare and technology team members, passionate about changing the challenging parts of healthcare. If you enjoy solving challenging problems and learning about healthcare, then Cohere Health is a great career choice.
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Employees work remotely.
Cohere employees work from 45 different states throughout the US - Cohere hosts retreats at our headquarters in Boston. ZignaAI, a Cohere Health Company, employees based in Hyderabad, India, work in-office 5 days a week.
