Senior Data Scientist

The Data Science team helps Alma achieve its mission by leveraging data to inform business strategy and drive product innovations. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise in analytics and machine learning to improve Alma’s operational efficiency, create tools to empower providers, and make finding the right therapist more intuitive for clients. You will tackle challenging problems such as building ML models to predict cost of care and designing algorithms to match clients to available providers. You will work closely with a cross functional team of product managers, software engineers, and designers to define and execute on the product roadmap.

What you’ll do:

• Build machine learning models to solve business problems such as provider/client matching, cost prediction, and treatment recommendation
• Design, execute, and analyze A/B testing experiments to validate product hypotheses
• Define metrics and create dashboards to measure product performance
• Generate insights through deep-dive analysis to inform strategy and prioritization
• Collaborate with crossfunctional partners to define the product roadmap
• Identify opportunities and initiate new data science projects that drive company OKRs
• Communicate technical insights effectively to influence decision-making

Who you are:

• You have a Master’s degree in a relevant quantitative field (e.g. data science, computer science, statistics, economics) or equivalent 2 years in industry experience
• You have 2-4 years experience as a data scientist supporting product development
• You are an expert in SQL
• You are proficient in either R or Python for data analysis
• You have successfully developed and launched ML models with quantifiable business impact
• You have experience designing and analyzing A/B testing experiments and guide product decisions with experimental insights
• You are results-driven and passionate about building great products, with a proven track record of taking projects from inception to launch

Benefits:

• We’re a remote-first company
• Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans401K plan (Roth and traditional)
• Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
• Monthly co-working space membership stipend
• Monthly work-from-home stipend
• Financial wellness benefits through Northstar
• Pet discount program through United Pet Care
• Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
• EAP access through Cigna
• One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
• Comprehensive parental leave plans
• 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
• Flexible PTO 

Salary Band: $160,000 - $190,000 

Alma’s compensation philosophy is driven by our company value of building equity. To best ensure pay equity, we typically bring in new hires near the middle of our listed salary bands and we do not negotiate our compensation (i.e. all people hired at the same level & role are brought in at the same salary, equity, and benefits). The recruiter you work with can provide more details on our philosophy.

All Alma jobs are listed on our careers page. We do not use outside applications or automated text messaging in our recruiting process. We will not ask for any sensitive financial or identification information throughout the recruiting process. Any communication during the recruitment process, including interview requests or job offers, will come directly from a recruiting team member with a helloalma.com email address.