Director, Data Science

Role Overview

• Own the strategy, execution, and impact of Data Science across product, marketing, and forecasting.
• Set direction for how the team supports product development, experimentation, lifecycle, growth, and business decision-making.
• Ensure focus on the highest-value problems across Product, Marketing, Care, and B2B, tied to member and business outcomes.
• Establish high standards across experimentation, causal inference, modeling, forecasting, segmentation, and statistical rigor.
• Raise quality in hypotheses, metrics, experiment design, model evaluation, and decision recommendations.
• Build durable review mechanisms and operating standards to ensure work is sound, interpretable, and decision-ready.
• Lead product analytics to shape how user behavior is understood across acquisition, engagement, retention, and care journeys.
• Strengthen data foundations including instrumentation, telemetry quality, validation, and experimentation readiness.
• Partner cross-functionally to define measurement strategies that demonstrate care impact, outcomes, and ROI.
• Build and lead a high-performing team by developing leaders, raising the talent bar, and leveraging AI to improve productivity and insight generation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in data science, product science, marketing science, quantitative analytics, experimentation, economics, statistics, machine learning, or related fields.
• Proven ability managing senior ICs and people managers, including managers and principal-level scientists.
• Deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and predictive modeling.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering on instrumentation, measurement strategy, and decision-making.
• Strong track record influencing roadmap and investment decisions with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to connect behavioral measurement and scientific work to business outcomes and product strategy.
• Excellent communication and executive-facing partnership skills.

Benefits

• base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, generous parental leave, and more.