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Senior Manager/Director, Data Science

United States

We Breathe Life Into Data

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease. 

As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. At Komodo, you will be joining a team of ambitious, supportive Dragons with diverse backgrounds but a shared passion to deliver on our mission to reduce the burden of disease — and enjoy the journey along the way.

The Opportunity at Komodo Health

The Analytics team at Komodo Health provides high-quality analytics and thought partnership to answer both our prospective and current clients’ key business questions and ultimately serve our mission to reduce disease burden. In this role, you will lead this team, which has a mandate to build analytics pipelines and tables and draw key insights from Komodo data and products, as well as partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs, with a goal to drive customer retention. You will also collaborate with internal teams to identify ways to enhance and scale our products and analytics offerings.

Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have accomplished…

  • Supervised high-value data analytics projects.
  • Led the development of a data science team focused on both presales analytics and managed services projects.
  • Effectively partnered with internal and external teams to translate client requirements into analytics to solve client needs, leveraging Komodo data and products.
  • Acquired a thorough understanding of the Komodo Healthcare Map and how to apply it to answer critical healthcare questions.
  • Developed an understanding of patient-level data and proficiency in our key offering areas, including patient journey, line of therapy, HCP segmentation, and market landscape assessments.
  • Identified and implemented ways to scale our solutions, automate code, and centralize complex logic for repeatability. Advocated for effective and consistent data science practices within the team with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Presented analytical results and insights to internal and external partners, including technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Contributed to the growth and development of the team through the onboarding and training of new members.

What you bring to Komodo Health (required):

  • Analytical mindset: You solve complex business problems with analytics.
  • Client service-orientation: You understand client needs and how to develop solutions to address them.
  • Strong communication skills: You are comfortable presenting to stakeholders at all levels (technical and non-technical) and distilling complex topics and analyses into easy-to-follow and compelling narratives.
  • Healthcare or other related experience: You are familiar with life sciences needs, such as patient journey analytics, HCP engagement and segmentation, and market landscape assessments.
  • Data-driven mindset: You are able to dig into the data both within Komodo’s Healthcare Map and across external data sources that we receive from partners and customers to synthesize insights.
  • Problem-solving skills: You demonstrate strong logical thinking and an ability to see patterns.
  • Partnership mentality: You effectively collaborate with data science, account managers, sales, product, and clients to guide analyses, synthesize results, and share feedback.
  • Curiosity: You demonstrate an interest and aptitude for constant learning and regularly seek and welcome feedback and help from colleagues.
  • Flexible attitude: You adapt to changing environments and solve problems from new angles; you know how to manage ambiguity.
  • Proficiency in quantitative reasoning: You understand the basics of data science and classical statistics and can use that knowledge to scope out a client solution .
  • Consultative mindset: You identify and proactively offer recommendations based on observed insights.
  • You must have: at least five years of industry experience working with large-scale databases and leveraging Python and SQL (notably Snowflake for data querying, cleaning, and transformation); advanced Excel skills; experience translating analytic insights into PowerPoint or dashboards; prior life sciences or other healthcare experience analyzing claims data to inform business decisions; management experience and experience scaling a data science team.

Expectations of AI Use in this role (required):

Judgement & Creativity:

  1. Applies AI strategically, knowing how to use the right tools at the right time to solve problems or generate new ideas.
  2. Uses AI to accelerate feedback loops, test ideas, and make informed decisions faster.
  3. Applies both judgment and creativity when working with AI and understands its limitations.

Curiosity & Initiative:

  1. Demonstrates curiosity and initiative in exploring new AI tools and workflows relevant to their role.
  2. Has developed or shared AI-enhanced workflows, automations, or prompts with others.

Integration & Productivity:

  1. Brings a reflexive AI mindset and uses AI as a natural part of their process to iterate, research, and deliver better work.
  2. Comfortable working in AI-enhanced environments across writing, data analysis, content creation, or design.
  3. Regularly leverages AI tools such as Notion AI, Perplexity, Claude, Descript, Runway, Midjourney, or Microsoft Copilot i.e. to improve speed, clarity, or creative output.

Additional skills and experience we’d prioritize (nice to have)…

  • Familiarity with PySpark and R
  • Proficiency with complex topics in ML modeling and software packages
  • Advanced statistics/biostatistics
  • Algorithm design

#LI-Remote

The pay range for each job posting reflects a minimum and maximum range of annual base pay that we reasonably expect to pay for this position within the US. We carefully consider multiple business-related factors when determining compensation, including job-related skills, work experience, geographic work location, relevant training and certifications, business needs and market demands.

 

The starting annual base pay for this role is listed below. This position is also eligible for commissions in accordance with a written agreement or plan. This role may also be eligible for equity awards. In addition, this role is eligible for benefits including, but not limited to, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; flexible time off and holidays; 401(k) with company match; disability insurance and life insurance; and leaves of absence in accordance with applicable state and local laws and regulations and company policy. 

San Francisco Bay Area and New York City:

$269,000 - $305,000 USD

All Other US Locations:

$199,000 - $265,000 USD

Komodo's AI Standard

At Komodo, we're not just witnessing the AI revolution – we're leading it. This is a pivotal moment in time, where being first to market with AI transforms industries and sets the bar. We've already established industry leadership in leveraging AI to revolutionize healthcare, and we expect every team member to contribute. AI here isn't optional; it's foundational. We expect you to integrate AI into your daily work – from summarizing documents to automating workflows and uncovering insights. This isn't just about efficiency; it's about making every moment more meaningful, building on trust in AI, and driving our collective success.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare intelligence.

Where You’ll Work

Komodo Health has a hybrid work model; we recognize the power of choice and importance of flexibility for the well-being of both our company and our individual Dragons. Roles may be completely remote based anywhere in the country listed, remote but based in a specific region, or local (commuting distance) to one of our hubs in San Francisco, New York City, or Chicago with remote work options. 

What We Offer

Positions may be eligible for company benefits in accordance with Company policy. We offer a competitive total rewards package including medical, dental and vision coverage along with a broad range of supplemental benefits including 401k Retirement Plan, prepaid legal assistance, and more. We also offer paid time off for vacation, sickness, holiday, and bereavement. We are pleased to be able to provide 100% company-paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance. This information is intended to be a general overview and may be modified by the Company due to business-related factors.

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