What We Strive For
At Strive Health, we’re driven by a purpose: transforming the broken kidney care system. Through early identification, engagement, and comprehensive coordinated care, we significantly improve outcomes for people with kidney disease, reducing emergency dialysis and inpatient utilization. Our high-touch care model integrates with local providers and uses predictive data to identify and support at-risk patients along their entire care journey. We embrace diversity, celebrate successes, and support each other, making Strive the destination for top talent in healthcare. Join us in making a real difference.
Benefits & Perks
- Hybrid-Remote Flexibility – Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office, clinic, or patient home visits.
- Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee assistance programs, employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance, plus health and flexible spending accounts.
- Financial & Retirement Support – Competitive compensation with a performance-based discretionary bonus program, 401k with employer match, and financial wellness resources.
- Time Off & Leave – Paid holidays, flexible vacation time, sick time, and paid birthgiving, bonding, sabbatical, and living donor leaves.
- Wellness & Growth – Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks, mental health support, and an annual professional development stipend.
What You'll Do
The Sr. Director, Data Science thrives in a fast-paced environment and is ready for a challenge. This person is responsible for supporting the development of product roadmaps, achieving optimal design, driving effective prioritization, establishing OKRs, facilitating definitions of business processes and attaining assurance of usability for end users as well as effective delivery of stakeholder requirements. The Sr. Director, Data Science is a data product leader, scientist with organizational leadership experience in the development of technology for data-driven management. They are an integral part of the Technology team in managing team members, coaching, training, and driving collaboration to ensure effective utilization of solutions.
Essential Functions
- Partner with product, clinical, operation and business stakeholders to define and align data science initiatives and roadmap
- Oversee cross-functional execution and implementation of data science initiatives, ensuring consistent alignment between goals at all levels, and translation of effort into value
- Instill and cultivate result-oriented mindset cross-functionally
- Represent data science voice in strategic discussion with a balance between short-term and long-term value-add, customer-facing priorities and non-customer-facing priorities
- Foster strong stakeholder relationships and improve adoption and trust for data science products
- Work with teams on MLOps implementations, ensuring high-quality standards and best practices
- Represent data science perspectives in overarching data system design discussion, ensuring coherence and alignment across data acquisition, management, enrichment, and delivery
- Wear SME hat in applied statistics and applied machine learning when there is gap
- Hands-on involved in the full life cycle of solution development, from scope & definition to delivery
- Manage a high-performing team of Sr. Data Scientists and machine learning engineers
- Coach members with individualized approach, catering towards their interests, strengths, and weaknesses
- Act as a servant leader who guides the team to reach their goals
- Act as a core member of the tech leadership team, contributing to the culture of Strive tech community
Minimum Qualifications
- M.S. or above in a quantitative field
- 7+ years of full-time experience in building machine learning and/or statistical products and services
- 3+ years of people leadership experience
- 3+ years of experience at a healthcare organization ideally in population health
- Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
- Ability to travel and be onsite to meet business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading and growing a high-performing data science team
- Proven track record of driving cross-functional effort to initiate and deliver high-impact data science projects
- Result-oriented approach with a can-do, entrepreneurial mindset
- 5+ years of people leadership experience
Annual Salary Range: $153,00 - $191,000
Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all the qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].
We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Strive Health will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.
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What We Do
Strive Health is built for purpose — to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of people with kidney disease through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.
Why Work With Us
“At Strive, we’re transforming kidney care. While our mission, vision, and values-based culture play critical roles in that transformation, our people (Strivers) make it happen. Strivers are delivering compassionate kidney care and creating an incredible place to work.” Chris Riopelle (CEO)
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