Head of Data Science

Abridge
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 250,000 - 325,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Team management","Stakeholder management"]

Director of Data Science leads a cross-functional data organization to drive actionable insights and product strategy through data, building a world-class team and shaping data infrastructure. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Research, and Finance to democratize data and accelerate decision-making, while establishing robust analytics standards and ROI frameworks across the business.

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5 months ago

Head of Data Science

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Job Summary

Director of Data Science leads a cross-functional data organization to drive actionable insights and product strategy through data, building a world-class team and shaping data infrastructure. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Research, and Finance to democratize data and accelerate decision-making, while establishing robust analytics standards and ROI frameworks across the business.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and manage a world-class team of data scientists, providing guidance, mentorship and high standards while growing the team
  • •Foster a high impact and collaborative team culture, focused on agency, providing clarity of thinking to the organization and pride in authorship
  • •Drive product strategy through data-driven insights across our product portfolio, including user behavior analysis and product performance metrics
  • •Partner with product, strategy, and research teams to develop ROI frameworks for customers, ingest real-time data and demonstrate impact
  • •Collaborate with the research team on models and evaluation, shaping evaluation frameworks and production monitoring

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 325,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •MS or PhD in a quantitative field (statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, or related)
  • •12+ years in data-science or analytics, especially in product-facing roles
  • •Depth of experience using Python, R, SQL for large-scale analytics
  • •Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Sigma) and code-based tools (Seaborn, ggplot2)
  • •Excellent communicator capable of delivering quantitative findings to non-technical stakeholders and a strong leader who can build high-performing teams
Experience:12+ yearsHealthcareAI
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationTeam managementStakeholder management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonRSQLTableauLookerSigmaSeabornGgplot2

Company Brief

Abridge
Builds an enterprise-grade generative-AI platform that captures and summarizes patient–clinician conversations in real time to produce structured clinical documentation, integrated with EMRs to reduce clinician documentation burden and enable clinical and revenue workflows.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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