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Data Scientist - Medicare

Health IQ
USA Only

At Health IQ, our vision is to ensure that the 1.5B seniors live their golden years better than the previous generations. We believe in rewarding the health conscious through savings, literacy, and educational tools.

We are a diverse and innovative group of individuals who thrive on big data and proven results. Our approach has enabled us to grow from roughly 200 to 900+ employees over the last year and we expect continued growth and opportunities. If you believe that being health conscious can improve lives and want to make a tangible difference through your work, then you’ll love what we’re doing at Health IQ – apply and join the team!

At Health IQ, our vision is to ensure that the 1.5B seniors live their golden years better than the previous generations. We believe in rewarding the health conscious through savings, literacy, and educational tools.

We are a diverse and innovative group of individuals who thrive on big data and proven results. Our approach has enabled us to grow from roughly 200 to 900+ employees over the last year and we expect continued growth and opportunities. If you believe that being health conscious can improve lives and want to make a tangible difference through your work, then you’ll love what we’re doing at Health IQ – apply and join the team!

Data Scientist

Health IQ has set upon itself to completely change the way seniors choose their healthcare plans by using AI/ data science, and world class user experience to bring transparency, objectivity, and intelligence to the insurance purchasing process. We need a Data Scientist to help this initiative end to end and establish Health IQ as a leader in the digital insurance market.

At Health IQ, Data Scientist uses predictive analytics and innovative machine learning models to create value from data. This role is at the heart of finding and proving innovative solutions and is responsible for developing and driving strategic modeling initiatives while maintaining a close partnership with IT to ensure that our models can be deployed quickly and monitored in a flexible deployment framework.

As a Data Scientist, you will serve as a technical and thought leader on this diverse and highly skilled team. You will design and develop inventive solutions to drive innovation and the delivery of organizational value. You’ll synthesize large datasets and solve complex problems by using advanced machine learning and statistical modeling. You’ll work in a highly collaborative, team environment, guiding and mentoring junior data scientists and collaborating with multiple stakeholders. You will assist management in the communication of insights and the implementation of impactful data science solutions across the organization.

You will deliver actionable insights from your models that can be incorporated into existing Health IQ products and new programs. The ideal candidate for this role will have a passion for creating solutions, an attitude of creativity, and continual learning.

What you will be doing:

  • Build core analytical models that drive Health IQ digital insurance products.
  • Bring core domain expertise about Medicare, health insurance and population insights.
  • Communicate complex quantitative analyses in a clear, precise, and actionable manner to management and executive-level audiences while building relationships with their partners
  • Collaborate with business leaders to understand business opportunities and formulate analytical solutions for problem-solving, working alongside other analytic individuals and team
  • Design innovative algorithms and machine-learning approaches for handling some of the most challenging and exciting datasets in today’s insurance industry
  • Provide thought leadership on the practical application of machine learning and advanced analytical methods and cultivate a data-driven culture across the company
  • Deliver clean, reusable, and scalable code
  • Work closely with Data & Engineering to deploy models

 
What we’re looking for:

  • Master’s Degree in computer science, Math, Statistics, Economics or in any technical field that provides a solid basis for analytics is required. Masters with relevant experience acceptable
  • 2+ years of experience in data science, statistics, computer science, or mathematics where you designed, developed, evaluated, and deployed predictive modeling, machine learning, and advanced analytics
  • End to end experience from data wrangling to model deployment delivering added value with varying levels of ambiguity
  • Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative and qualitative approaches especially related to Medicare, healthcare insurance plans, and/ or senior focused population insights.
  • Experience with state-of-the-art techniques in machine learning algorithms, including deep neural networks, NLP, dimensionality reduction, ensemble methods, graph algorithms
  • Excellent communication skills and experience in working with stakeholders
  • Strong prioritization skills while being dynamic and agile
  • Ability to advise one or more areas, programs, or functions

To make the world a healthier place, we started in our backyard. We created a health-conscious environment that allows each of our employees to reach their personal health goals. Below are a few of the employee-led programs that make working at Health IQ truly unique.

To make the world a healthier place, we started in our backyard. We created a health-conscious environment that allows each of our employees to reach their personal health goals. Below are a few of the employee-led programs that make working at Health IQ truly unique. 

  • Career Growth

As a rapidly growing company, new opportunities for growth and development continue to become available. We believe in promoting from within, and look to reward high performing employees with new opportunities. 

  • Celebration

We believe the key is to celebrate those who have improved their health rather than cajole those who haven’t. We look for employees who take this positive and optimistic view in their work lives.

  • Service to Seniors

Our whole mission and vision is to serve seniors to improve their health. We want employees who believe true happiness comes from being in service to others. We call these employees Health Heroes.

  • Personal Responsibility

We believe that only you can make the decision to improve your own health and no one else can do this for you. We look for employees that tend to do the same. 

  • Excellent benefits

Competitive rates for our employees' costs toward medical, dental and vision insurance. We offer a 401K, and pay 100% of your life insurance benefit option! We also offer various Flexible Spending Account (FSA) benefits to meet you and/or your families needs. Only full-time employees are eligible for benefits.

  • Join a Remote-first Culture

Our flexible, totally remote environment allows us to hire top talent throughout the U.S. The world has changed, and we’ve learned that being in an office is no longer the best way for our employees and our company to thrive.

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