Senior Director, Data Development

The role

You will lead a team developing and operationalizing machine learning solutions for structured and unstructured healthcare data. You will guide the evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment of pretrained language models to support data products.

What you will do

• Lead a team developing and operationalizing machine learning solutions for structured and unstructured healthcare data
• Guide the evaluation, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring of pretrained language models
• Help define technical strategy and development priorities for machine learning capabilities
• Establish best practices for model lifecycle management, validation, reproducibility, explainability, and documentation
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Medical, and Commercial teams
• Drive high standards for data quality, model governance, and clinical relevance
• Mentor and develop machine learning scientists and technical leaders

Required qualifications

• Master’s or doctorate in a quantitative discipline (e.g., data science, computer science, machine learning, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, etc.)
• 10+ years of experience applying machine learning to clinical or healthcare datasets
• Recent experience deploying, fine-tuning, evaluating, or operationalizing foundation models and applied machine learning systems
• 5+ years managing technical teams
• Strong programming experience using Python, SQL, PySpark, R, or similar tools
• Experience working within modern cloud-based machine learning ecosystems and deployment environments
• Experience moving machine learning systems from experimentation into production environments
• Familiarity with machine learning approaches for clinical imaging data
• Experience working with clinical datasets derived from EHR systems and related healthcare data sources
• Clear communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• 401(k) match
• Flexible time off programs
• Paid parental leave
• Annual learning and wellness stipend

Before you apply

• All employees are required to have permanent residency in one of the listed states
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• Unable to provide visa sponsorship or OPT/STEM extension support

About the company

Verana Health is a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network.