Are you a savvy, high energy, data science expert with experience communicating complex data or algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower others to drive business improvement and actions across a company? If so, Elevation Search Solutions’ client is seeking a VP of Data Science in the New York City Market and wants to speak to you!

About our client:

Our client is an emerging and high growth tech enabled health provider focused on improving overall medical outcomes. They are a highly compassionate group of people focused on helping others and improving lives.

What you will be doing:

• Partner with the executives to develop a roadmap for the data science team and client’s algorithms.
• Analyze, design, and develop algorithms to be used across the organization.
• Set the team’s long and short-term priorities, and make sure they’re aligned with company goals.
• Recruit and hire great talent and develop the careers of the data science team with guidance and mentorship.
• Turn data collection and analysis into actionable recommendations for product features.
• Be the team’s liaison to the rest of the company. Provide them with information about how features are being used and suggest opportunities to improve engagement.

What you need to have:

• 10+ years in Data Science, Machine Learning, Quantitative Analysis.
• Prior management and team building experience: You’ll be managing several direct reports initially and will have the responsibility of scaling and building out a team of experts.
• Outstanding communication skills - able to break down the complexity of what you are building/finding into bite-sized chunks that key stakeholders, management and the board can understand.
• Expert in applied statistics such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
• Patience, a sense of humor, and an equal willingness to teach and learn.