Senior Manager, Applied Science

The role

You will lead a team of Applied Scientists to build and scale AI capabilities. You will develop, evaluate, and deploy models that automate clinical and administrative workflows using structured and unstructured healthcare data.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Applied Scientists
• Translate complex healthcare business and clinical problems into scalable machine learning and data science solutions
• Validate solutions with methodological and statistical rigor
• Partner with AI Engineering to scale solutions
• Partner cross-functionally with Clinical Operations, Product, Engineering, and platform teams
• Communicate technical concepts and insights to stakeholders
• Contribute to recruiting, onboarding, and developing team members

Required qualifications

• PhD with 7+ years experience or MS with 10+ years experience in machine learning, data science, or applied AI roles
• Minimum 2+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams
• Experience leveraging both modern language models and classical ML techniques in a production setting
• Expertise in statistical methods, experimental design, and model evaluation
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• AWS experience
• Track record of driving decision making by collaborating with business functions and product

Nice to have

• Experience in transactional healthcare (e.g., Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, Risk Adjustment, Quality, Care Management, etc)
• Experience driving process automation in a healthcare setting using modern language models
• Experience applying retrieval and relational extraction techniques to unstructured clinical notes and other patient history documentation

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement plan with company match
• Flexible spending and health savings account
• Flex Time Off
• Company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance

Before you apply

• Preliminary Phone Screening
• Meet Hiring Manager
• Behavioral Interview(s)
• Case Study

About the company

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs. The company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.