Lead Data Scientist

The role

The Lead Data Scientist will own the analytical strategy behind the Onos platform. This person will partner with health plans to understand their data and work with internal teams to shape analytics, dashboards, and product capabilities.

What you will do

• Work with payer analytics, clinical, operational, and executive teams to understand data and business objectives.
• Help customers understand and validate insights from the Onos platform.
• Design and execute analyses to quantify ROI, clinical outcomes, and program impact.
• Present methodologies, findings, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Serve as an analytical partner during implementations, pilots, and customer engagements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate new data sources into the platform.
• Define dashboards, reporting, metrics, and analytics used by customers.
• Translate customer questions into scalable product capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to create new products and decision-support tools using customer data.
• Explore healthcare datasets to identify utilization patterns and operational inefficiencies.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in healthcare analytics, data science, biostatistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Deep experience working with healthcare claims, clinical, authorization, eligibility, or operational healthcare data.
• Strong SQL and Python skills for exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, and data validation.
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, causal inference, predictive modeling, and analytical methodology.
• Experience designing analyses that measure clinical, operational, or financial outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex analytical concepts into clear, actionable business insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Product-minded with an interest in turning analytical insights into scalable software capabilities.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity.
• Exceptional references from colleagues and former managers.

Nice to have

• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders
• Healthcare payer, provider, or health technology experience

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid arrangement (~3 days/week in our San Francisco office)
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k)
• Significant equity as an early employee
• Direct mentorship from experienced founders
• Ground-floor opportunity to help build both the product and company
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Company-provided equipment and home office setup

About the company

Onos Health is building an AI-driven healthcare data platform to ensure healthcare dollars go toward delivering high-quality care. The company aims to reduce waste caused by misalignment between providers and payers.