Head of Product Data Science

Abridge•San Francisco, CA

15d

About The Position

Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh. As the Data Science Leader at Abridge you will be responsible for building a world-class data team, implementing a comprehensive data strategy that can help democratize data in the age of AI, and use data to drive actionable insights. We’re looking for a leader who has high-agency, strong taste, and wants to make a high impact while growing our U.S. based team. This role is crucial to our company as the Data Science team will serve as a central resource to provide insight and clarity while speeding up decision making. Your key cross-functional partners will include our Product, Engineering and Science teams, as well as our commercial and finance teams to ultimately help guide our decision making.

Requirements

MS or PhD in quantitative field (statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, or related)
12+ years in data-science or analytics, especially in product-facing roles where you had to drive impact by using data to shape product strategy, goal setting and execution
Depth of experience using Python, R, SQL for large-scale analytics
Comfort building data capabilities from the earliest stages through rapid growth, including interfacing closely with data engineering and machine learning
Experience with data visualization tools, both BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Sigma) and code-based tools (e.g. Seaborn, ggplot2)
Excellent communicator capable of effectively delivering quantitative findings to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and compelling fashion.
A strong leader who is able to help build great teams, drive urgency in execution while ensuring we prioritize appropriately in a rapid growth environment

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of healthcare settings, electronic health records (EHR), and healthcare billing
Experience diving into / shaping Analytics Engineering (recruiting & supporting)

Responsibilities

Build and manage a world-class team of data scientists, providing guidance, mentorship and high standards while growing the team to 12+ over the next twelve months
Foster a high impact and collaborative team culture, focused on having agency, providing clarity of thinking to the organization and pride in authorship
Drive product strategy through data-driven insights across our growing product portfolio , including user behavior analysis, deep-dives into product performance metrics, casual inference experimentation
Partner with our product, strategy and research teams to develop sophisticated ROI frameworks for our customers, ingesting real-time data and demonstrating impact
Collaborate with our world-class research team on models and model evaluation, including shaping our model evaluation frameworks, production performance monitoring, and defining quality metrics that matter clinically
Effectively communicate our data strategy, complex analyses and key insights to cross-functional partners including the executive team
Structure the company’s data strategy, working closely with our Data Engineering team to identify gaps in data sources, ingest internal & external data, and structure that data for optimal use across the Company
Make critical technical infrastructure decisions for the data organization, including tooling choices, build vs buy tradeoffs for analytics platforms, and setting technical standards that enable the team to move fast without creating technical debt
Build the data science org of the future, incorporating the current and soon-to-come best practices in order to utilize AI to speed up data ingestion and insight generation

Benefits

Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
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