Senior Data Scientist

Healthcare quality is declining and soaring costs are crushing American families and businesses. At Garner, we've developed a revolutionary approach to evaluating doctor performance and a unique incentive model that's reshaping the healthcare economy to ensure everyone can afford high quality care. By providing organizations relief from surging healthcare costs, we've experienced rapid adoption in the market and have more than doubled our revenue annually over the last 5 years, becoming the fastest growing company in our space. To support our continued growth, we're expanding our team by over 50% each year, seeking exceptional talent to shape our unique, award winning culture (for example, USA Today Top Workplaces 2025) designed to cultivate teamwork, trust, autonomy, exceptional results, and individual growth that creates an inflection point in your career.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Garner Health Intelligence team to help build and evolve our provider data insights. You'll work with our clinical researchers, data scientists, and data engineers to improve the rules and models we use to evaluate provider performance. Your work will directly impact our member recommendations and provider-facing data products.

You will also be a technical leader, raising the bar for how we conduct analysis, build models, and deploy data science code by improving standards and mentoring team members.

Where you will work:

This role will be based in our New York City office. You must be willing to work in the office 3 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 

What you will do:

• Partner with product managers and clinical experts to lead projects shaping how we define and measure provider cost and quality
• Drive the evolution and construction of tools we use to write, assess, and combine rules measuring provider behaviors
• Build and maintain data-driven algorithms, including AI and machine learning models, to improve our provider recommendations estimates
• Partner with data engineers to design scalable data pipelines that ingest, clean, and enrich healthcare provider data
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, research, and operations teams to translate business needs into data-driven solutions
• Define data science standards and best practices, and mentor team members to raise the technical capabilities of the data science team

What you will bring to the team:

• 5+ years professional experience in data science, product analytics, and/or healthcare
• A demonstrated ability to independently solve difficult problems and deliver high quality results to senior stakeholders
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• A willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
• A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system

Please note: we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Compensation Transparency:

The target salary range for this position is $196,000 - $240,000. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, skills, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans, including but not limited to: flexible PTO, Medical/Dental/Vision plan options, 401(k), Teladoc Health and more.

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