Senior Data Scientist, Data & Member Behavior

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join our Engineering team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role

Oscar is in a unique position to drive impact through high engagement with members and a variety of high-tech touchpoints (such as virtual care or superagent).The Senior Data Scientist develops personalized multi-channel marketing campaigns to influence behaviors that Oscar members take that are key to their health. You will ideate, scope business cases, design targeted pipelines by using predictive models, launch campaigns, monitor and optimize campaigns in real time to attribute best performing marketing variants, and measure campaigns. This will involve research, pipeline/ML model development, optimization techniques such (e.g. MAB), and measurement techniques (traditional statistical and casual machine learning).

You work cross functionally with marketing and clinical teams, dedicated to a specific goal of lowering medical cost. You will have accountability for the success of each campaign.

You will report to the Senior Director, Data Science.

Work Location: This position is a hybrid role based in our New York City office, Los Angeles Office, or Tempe Office requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week OR remote, if you're located in Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area. Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $158.400 - $207,900 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities

• Works with team and manager to impact longer term strategies and roadmap


• Sets shorter term roadmap for team


• Interacts and collaborates closely with data and business counterparts across functional areas


• Researches, develops, and maintains data pipelines, statistical/ML models, and/or advanced analyses


• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations


• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry or other quantitative technical fields (which may include academia).


• 3+ years of work experience working with SQL, R, and/or Python to query, manipulate and analyze data


• 3+ years experience building data models, using more advanced analytics methods, statistical modeling, and/or data processing

Bonus points

• Advanced degree in a quantitative or technical field


• Experience in the healthcare, finance and/or insurance industries

Travel

Up to 5%

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Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements.

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