Blink Health is a well-funded healthcare technology company on a mission to make prescription drugs more accessible and affordable for everyone. We're scaling up in a highly complex vertical to change the way Americans access the prescription drugs they need.
Our proprietary platform and supply chain allows us to offer everyone — whether they have insurance or not — amazingly inexpensive prices on over 15,000 medications. With the addition of telemedicine and home delivery for prescriptions, Blink is providing a life-changing experience for people all over the country and fixing how opaque, unfair and overpriced healthcare has become. We are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!
Success:
- VP of Data will define, build and grow a data strategy and team to deliver best-in-class capabilities that will support Blink Health’s ambitious growth goals.
- Hire and build a world class team of data engineers and data scientists.
- Responsible for data from ingestion, to warehouse, to delivering value from the data through analytics and data science methods.
- Creating scalable engineering and data science management processes.
- Persuading, negotiating and leading efforts towards shared goals, roadmaps and dependencies with internal and external stakeholders: finance, product, marketing, legal, business leaders and partners.
- Setting a high bar and continually raising it for data culture at Blink by evangelizing, managing, coaching and developing data fluency throughout the organization.
How to achieve success/acumen:
All Blinkers are expected to operate with our value of “Good Giving” in mind. Our culture is infused with the dedication and enthusiasm of employees who continuously strive to make a difference. Here’s how you will do that in this role.
Good Execution - Do your best work
- Leverage your expertise through your high functioning team. Provide them technical and business leadership, the benefits of your years of experience, and develop them be amazing.
- Hands-on execution on critical projects.
Good Owner - Be the CEO of your role
- Set a strong vision for what we need from people, to infrastructure and tools to strategic data sourcing plans.
- Efficiently manage the team’s resources to ensure capital investments return value, teams focus on highest impact projects, and identify and remove roadblocks before they become problems.
Good Learning - Learn something new every day
- Work cross-functionally to understand how teams can better utilize data insights through your staff or become self-sufficient and data-capable.
Good Feedback - Consider the perspective of others
- Listen actively and respond effectively through a variety of channels
- Give and receive candid and constructive feedback
- Promote trust and encourage teamwork to allow the data science team to do their best work
Desired experience:
- 15+ years’ experience in algorithmic engineering, data science, machine learning
- 7+ years of experience in managing, and mentoring data science, data engineering, and analytics teams in a global technology company
- Deep technical background with a MS or PhD in mathematics, statistics, computer science or a related field
- Deep technical, engineering and quantitative skills. Experience with all aspects of data streaming, storage, processing, optimization and applying data to drive business results from operational analysis to advanced modeling and prediction.
- Ability to translate business needs to analytic requirements and take the results of complex analyses and communicate them to a broad audience.
- Experience in either the consumer internet space or healthcare industry.
- Masters Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field. MBA or equivalent business experience.
Why Join Us:
At Blink, we put humans first. It's our ambition that everyone at Blink is doing the best work of their lives. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.