Director, Data & AI Strategy
Cerebral and Resilience Lab have joined forces to build a new standard in mental health care—one that emphasizes better outcomes through stronger clinical decision-making, rigorous training, and professional excellence. By combining Resilience Lab’s Methodology & clinically-led training Institute with Cerebral’s extensive reach, clinical network, and care capabilities, we are creating a national model for high-quality, integrated, and accessible behavioral health care.
We believe quality mental health care starts with curiosity, professionalism, and mastery of clinical decision-making. Joining our team means committing to show up on your best foot every day where you’ll be equipped with structured training, supportive supervision, and a methodology designed to guide you in making sound clinical decisions.
The Role:
Cerebral is committed to transforming mental health care through technology, clinical excellence, and data-driven insights. We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Data & AI Strategy to lead our data organization and deliver our company’s AI roadmap. This leader will own the data infrastructure, deliver executive-level reporting on key business and clinical metrics, and ensure that data and AI are core enablers of how we deliver care, measure outcomes, and scale impact.
Who you are:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in data leadership roles, ideally within healthcare or health tech
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, dbt, Looker, and data integrations
- Strong track record of reporting business and clinical metrics to executives and boards
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (LLMs, predictive models, personalization, automation) and experience driving AI initiatives
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision and immediate execution
- Prior experience working with healthcare data (EHRs, claims, PHI) in compliance with HIPAA
- Hands-on skills in SQL and Python
- Familiarity with regulatory environments and payor/provider systems in mental health
What you'll do:
Data Infrastructure & Management
- Own and scale our data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Looker) to ensure high-quality, reliable data pipelines
- Integrate third-party systems (EHRs, payors, marketing, operations, and product tools) into a unified data ecosystem
- Implement best practices for governance, compliance, and security, especially within healthcare/PHI environments (HIPAA)
Business Intelligence & Reporting
- Define and maintain a source of truth for key business and clinical metrics (patient outcomes, engagement, provider productivity, financial KPIs)
- Deliver executive-level dashboards and insights to guide decision-making across the leadership team and board
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Clinical teams to enable data-driven experimentation, forecasting, and continuous improvement
AI & Advanced Analytics
- Develop and own Cerebral’s AI/ML strategy, identifying opportunities to enhance care delivery, clinical quality, patient experience, and operational efficiency
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap for AI-enabled products (e.g., clinical decision support, patient engagement, automation)
- Stay ahead of advancements in generative AI and predictive analytics and translate them into safe, ethical, and compliant applications in mental health care
Leadership & Strategy
- Build and scale a high-performing team of data engineers, analysts, and scientists
- Serve as the executive thought partner for data and AI strategy, guiding leadership on opportunities and risks
- Foster a culture of data literacy and evidence-based decision-making across the organization
The national base salary range (OR the national hourly range for nonexempt positions) offered for this position is outlined below. Cerebral is committed to equal pay for equal work; however, business reasons may dictate variations in pay that are attributed to objective factors, such as a candidate's qualifications and years of experience. Total compensation includes base salary and may include an annual performance bonus and equity/stock options.
National Base Salary Range:
$175,000 - $225,000 USD
Who we are (our company values):
- We Deliver Client Impact: Relentlessly focusing on advancing personalized, high-quality, evidence-based care that improves people's lives
- We are One: Bringing our collective expertise together as a unified team, strengthened by collaboration, trust, diversity of thought and shared purpose
- We Aim Higher: Continuously curious to drive our learning, our innovation and our personal growth to reach our full potential
- We are Generous: Giving more than we take with compassion, empathy, support, openness and a willingness to help those in need
- We are Accountable: Acting with courage, conviction and integrity to achieve our goals and ambitions to improve the lives of our clients
Cerebral is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace.
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Cerebral, Inc. is a management services organization that provides health information technology, information management system, and non-clinical administrative support services for various medical practices, including Cerebral Medical Group, PA and its affiliated practices (CMG), who are solely responsible for providing and overseeing all clinical matters. Cerebral, Inc. does not provide healthcare services, employ any healthcare provider, own any medical practice (including CMG), or control or attempt to control any provider or the provision of any healthcare service. “Cerebral” is the brand name commonly used by Cerebral, Inc. and CMG.
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