Job Description

LIFE AT APTIHEALTH

The aptihealth team are health care, technology, research and user experience experts passionate about transforming behavioral healthcare. Everything we do at aptihealth is centered around our mission to revolutionize behavioral healthcare and to ensure that the millions of people who need and deserve it have access to it. As a curious and collaborative teammate, someone excited about tackling the hard problems in healthcare and technology, you will play a key role in making that mission a reality. Together, well create and innovate transformative behavioral healthcare for millions of people.

YOUR ROLE

As a Data Scientist, you will apply operations research and statistical methods to solve challenges related to overall healthcare and behavioral healthcare specifically for aptihealth and its customers. You will think critically and strategically about aptihealths platform as a technology, business and operation. This role requires strong problem-solving, analytical and communication skills. You will architect, organize, analyze and communicate large and complex data sets both to support product improvements and business decisions, as well as prepare for more efficient analysis. You will work on a range of projects, developing statistical analyses to study and understand the effect of aptihealths platform and protocols. You will develop machine learning models to suggest timely and appropriate behavioral health care protocols for members. You will develop methodologies to measure the outcomes and impact of protocols and make an impact on new member growth, quality and retention.

We are in a period of remarkable change and opportunity, where the convergence of technology and data is transforming healthcare. We are looking for self-motivated and driven candidates that are passionate about working on cutting edge technologies and that thrive in a highly collaborative environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop dashboards and relevant reporting to support business decisions
• Undertake preprocessing, data cleansing, and manipulation of structured and unstructured data;
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns using advanced statistical analyses (multi variable analysis, data trees, random forests, etc.)
• Capable of building predictive models and machine-learning algorithms with limited oversight
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
• Analyze large amounts of data to gain insights on how to deliver superior care by improving our product
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the business challenge
• Engage with the organization to identify, prioritize, frame, and structure complex challenges, where advanced analytics projects can have the biggest impact and optimize our product
• Help define the analytical direction and influence the direction of the associated healthcare and technology work
• Become a trusted partner to the product team by proactively identifying opportunities to improve engagement, clinical adherence and patient experience.
• Drive a data-informed process for experimenting with new products to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency
• Perform ML research, exploratory data analysis, and computer-vision modeling; develop model evaluation and online maintenance methodologies, including confidence estimation, calibration, and concept drift
• Develop general-purpose frameworks to support machine learning applications in production
• Work with technology team to establish rules to ensure clean data for reporting

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, related field, or equivalent
• 4+ years relevant work experience (as a data analyst/scientist) or equivalent across product data analytics or consulting, with a successful track record as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Thoroughly proficient in Python, R, SQL, etc.
• Experience in healthcare and/or a startup technology company strongly preferred
• Ability to work on projects from initial to final phase from problem definition to implementation plan to execution
• Excellent ability and political savvy to manage up, set priorities and help guide senior and colleagues to proper decision-making using data and insights
• Experience designing and building statistical forecasting models
• Experience designing and building machine learning models
• Excellent problem-framing, problem-solving and project management skills
• Experience in data mining
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Passionate about being a trusted partner to transform behavioral healthcare
• Results driven -- documented success in exceeding goals and objectives
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, constantly changing environment
• Excellent customer service and team collaboration skills
• Demonstrated commitment to the core values of the company
• Experience designing and building statistical forecasting and machine learning models

BENEFITS

• The opportunity to make life better for millions of people
• An environment of positive and super smart colleagues
• Turning innovative ideas into real-world results
• Encouraging curiosity and collaboration
• Priding ourselves in being diverse and inclusive
• Fostering a company of trust & accountability
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Investment in our team with continuous learning opportunities
• Balancing extraordinary work with your personal life
• Flexible working hours and lots of freedom in your work habits
• Embracing social responsibility with time off for community service projects

ABOUT APTIHEALTH

aptihealth, inc. is a behavioral health engagement company that seamlessly integrates physical and behavioral healthcare. Our platform connects medical providers, behavioral health specialists and patients with our proprietary assessment and treatment management protocols to get and keep patients healthier faster. aptihealths structured therapy programs are centered on its proprietary 15 Life Domain Clinical Framework that efficiently provides collaborative care teams with the most thorough understanding of a patients behavioral health needs. The aptihealth platform connects patients and their care teams with licensed behavioral health specialists who provide 90-day and extended care therapy by phone or video supported by an easy-to-use consumer friendly digital experience. The aptihealth program is evidenced to get individuals into therapy faster and clinically proven to improve both behavioral and medical outcomes while lowering overall cost. aptihealths investors include Hudson River Capital Holdings, KASA Investments and Timber IV.

At aptihealth, we dont just accept differencewe celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our team, products and community. aptihealth is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting us.