Senior Data Scientist at Virtahealth

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. ROLE OVERVIEW The Product and Care Team Analytics team is accountable for both pioneering new classes of data that power our business, and ensuring that data is powerful, clear, correct and easy to use throughout the company. The team collaborates closely with the engineering, product development, commercial, and clinical teams to transform data into actionable insights that propel Virta's mission forward. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in shaping our data-driven decision making processes and in driving impactful insights that advance our mission. This role offers a unique blend of hands-on coding and strategic leadership, working closely in partnership with our Product Development group. You will get a chance to work closely with stakeholders to create impactful data-driven reports and analyses that strengthen Virta’s value proposition. RESPONSIBILITIES - Serve as an embedded data lead: - Understand the product – strategy, goals, roadmap, users – deeply enough to identify high-impact, strategic opportunities and risks. - Use data to steer conversations: bring data-driven hypotheses, challenge assumptions, frame trade-offs, prioritize strategically. - Translate vague product hunches into sharp analytical questions, and design the right approach to answer them. - Be the source of truth for KPIs and product metrics: help define and monitor them, and identify trends and drivers. - Drive decisionmaking with data: Prioritize analyses that meaningfully inform product decisions and change outcomes, reframe analysis requests that won’t do that into ones that will, and design and deliver the resulting analyses properly and rapidly. - Lead experimentation thoughtfully: guide the team on when and when not to experiment, help enable self-serve experimentation, and focus on frequent, small experiments to speed learning. - Identify where product strategy and ideas could be better, more easily, or more quickly implemented with the help of AI (ML or GenAI), and help enable this integration. - Show up as a collaborative leader, not simply a service provider, and help focus work on what matters most. - Work end-to-end to translate clinical, member, and claims data from our data warehouse into actionable recommendations: work with stakeholders to design reports and dashboards that answer real business questions, design the data flows to support these, and build the required data transformation pipelines. MUST-HAVES - Experience working at a digital health or similar startup, preferably during the growth phase, in order to function effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. - 7+ years of experience in a Healthcare Analytics or Data Science role, working with large datasets and conducting statistical and quantitative modeling, melding analytics with strong programming, data mining, clustering and segmentation. - 7+ years of work experience working with data science and visualization tools (SQL, Python) - Experience in building BI dashboards using tools such as Looker or Tableau - Experience executing best practices in data security and privacy at the level required in a highly regulated industry - Ability to explain technology, techniques and approaches to others NICE-TO-HAVES - Experience leading cross-functional efforts to build scalable systems and data pipelines, working with complex data structures - Understanding of Generative AI concepts and usage of GenAI tools (ChatGPT/Codex, Claude/Claude Code, Gemini, etc.) - Experience building pipelines using dbt - Demonstrated project management experience 90 DAY PLAN Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following: - Familiarize yourself with the Product Analytics team roles and responsibilities. Get a pulse on team structure, key stakeholders, and areas for opportunity with an eye towards scalability and standardization. - Integrate with your assigned Squad to understand team dynamics, analyze key product features and data pipelines, and familiarize yourself with the Squad’s product roadmap - Analyze current member journey to understand Virta’s technology ecosystem - Meet cross-functional stakeholders to understand how their business needs align with Squad and Team goals - Identify at least 1 area of opportunity to leverage GenAI to increase team efficiency or improve our processes - Teach and inspire your team members through knowledge sharing, pair programming, and giving feedback during code reviews VALUES-DRIVEN CULTURE Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if: - You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally - You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same - You prioritize positive impact over busy work - You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience - You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information - You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma - You take risks and rapidly iterate Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and follow us on Linkedin [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to stay connected! As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided. #LI-remote Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $167,249 - $216,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided. As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco. Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI. Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at [Upgrade to PRO to see link] #LI-remote