Staff Data Scientist at Cityblock

About Us:
Cityblock Health is the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs—bringing better care to where it’s needed most, block by block. Founded in 2017 on the premise that “health is local” and based in Brooklyn, we are backed by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs along with some of the top healthcare investors in the country.
Our mission is to improve the health of underserved communities. Importantly, our solutions are designed specifically for Medicaid and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and we meet our members where they are, bringing care into the home and neighborhoods through our community-based care teams and Virtual Care offerings.
In close collaboration with community-based organizations, local providers, and leading health plans, we are reorganizing the health system to focus on what matters to our members. Equipped with world-class, custom care delivery technology, we deliver personalized primary care, behavioral health, and social services to deliver a radically better experience of care for every member and community we serve.
Over the next year, we’ll grow quickly to bring better care to many more members and their communities. To do this, we need people who, like us, believe that everyone should have good care for what matters to them, in their community. 
Our work is grounded in a belief in the power of a diverse community. To close gaps in care and advance equity in the communities we serve, we have to start with making our own team diverse and inclusive. Our ways of working are characterized by creativity, collaboration, and mutual learning that comes from bringing together a community from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to ensure that every person on the Cityblock team, and every Cityblock member, feels supported and included as a part of our community.
Our Values:

Aim for Understanding
Be All In
Bring Your Whole Self
Lean Into Discomfort
Put Members First

For information about the Cityblock Tech team, please visit our blog: https://technology.cityblock.com/
 
About the Role:
Cityblock Health is looking for a Data Scientist to help us conduct deep analysis and build machine learning models. You will work with stakeholders across the organization to develop your own predictive modeling and machine learning intelligence on Cityblock data, and to build innovative, scalable solutions that address key business, operational, clinical, and product use cases. 
Your work may inform decisions across our Growth, Market Operations, and Clinical teams or you might develop data-powered solutions for Commons, our digital care management platform. Commons enables our clinical teams to engage with patients, collect data about medical, behavioral and social needs, and develop personalized care plans that drive good health. Your solutions may be deployed as part of product features in Commons or help guide product development for machine intelligence-driven scale.
We are looking for a curiosity-driven and solution-oriented team player with a keen interest in people to develop solutions to problems that matter. You are eager to take on the entire model development workflow. You get and prepare data, you build and deploy models. You assess the performance of your solutions and you work with users and stakeholders to ensure that your solutions meet business and product objectives. 
We value experimentation and a question-oriented and hypothesis-driven approach to data. We look for an ability to make pragmatic decisions about trade offs as we build reliable and scalable machine learning  solutions (e.g., what to develop now vs. save for a future iteration). We believe that clear communication is key to success, you will contribute to evangelizing the meaningful use of data science and machine learning across the organization.
If you’re inspired by such a challenge and are an amazing teammate, we’d love to hear from you!
 
Requirements for the Role:

You have a PhD in a technical or scientific field and at least 1 year of industry experience OR you have 3+ years of experience in a data science or machine learning role
You have put models into production
You have worked with big-ish data and you are an advanced user of SQL, Python (preferred) or R, and associated packages for data processing and model development
You can flexibly choose the right approach, model, and tool for a given challenge
You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. You take a critical approach to data and are mindful of the responsibilities that come with technologies that drive scale
You are curious and playful with an ability to handle ambiguity. You enjoy identifying, scoping, and developing solutions with limited guidance, you have good product sense
You enjoy explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and you are excellent at it
You have a passion for doing mission-oriented work. You value solutions and people over technology

 
What We’d Like From You:

A resume and/or LinkedIn profile 
A short cover letter, please!

 
Cityblock values diversity as a core tenet of the work we do and the populations we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
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We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Cityblock will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.