Head of Data Foundations

Head of Data Foundations

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Our mission: to eliminate every barrier to mental health. 

Spring Health is a comprehensive mental health solution for employers and health plans. Unlike any other solution, we use clinically validated technology called Precision Mental Healthcare to pinpoint and deliver exactly what will work for each person  — whether that’s meditation, coaching, therapy, medication, and beyond. 

Today, Spring Health equips over 800 companies, from start-ups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, as a leading and preferred mental health service. Companies like General Mills, Guardian, Bain, and Instacart use the Spring Health platform to provide mental health services to thousands of their team members globally. We have raised over $300 million from prominent investors including Kinnevik, Tiger Global, Northzone, RRE Ventures, Rethink Impact, Work-Bench, William K Warren Foundation, SemperVirens, Able Partners, True Capital Ventures, and a strategic investor, Guardian Life Insurance. Thanks to their partnership, our current valuation has reached $2 billion.

Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about what motivates us and the ways we work to see if this is the right place for you: Our Values

Data is at the core of our product and business vision at Spring Heath. We are seeking an exceptional hands-on data leader to manage and grow Spring’s analytic data platform team. You will partner with our Engineering Platform and cross functional product teams to create a bold vision and roadmap that unlocks the value of data across our ecosystem and enables Spring Health to learn quickly and scale easily.  This is a pivotal role for our org and we are open to candidates with a range of experience between senior manager and director.

The Data Foundations team at Spring Health builds the frameworks, tools and infrastructure to expand our overall analytical capacity and enable a wide range of use cases across the organization ranging from operational reporting to product analytics and financial forecasting to precision health ML models.  By implementing pipelines, core data models, analytical layers and data warehouse architectures, this team serves as the foundation for decision-making at Spring Health.

What you’ll be doing:

    • Set a strategic direction for the data foundations team that accelerates our migration to the modern data stack in the near term while also laying the groundwork for longer term infrastructure investments to power machine learning applications
    • Develop the core infrastructure choices for the data lake and data warehouse, creating our foundational data models along with the corresponding data pipelines, and setting up the practices and processes to ensure reliable and high quality data across our ecosystem. 
    • Work with upstream data producers, product managers, business stakeholders, data engineering and product teams to collect the right data and build out our foundational data models. 
    • Collaborate with product and business collaborators across the org to gather feedback and requirements for Spring Health’s future data needs and define a prioritized roadmap for the team 
    • Own the vision for BI tools to build out self service reporting infrastructure

What we expect from you:

    • You are passionate about changing the face of mental health care and Spring Health’s mission to remove all barriers to mental health resonates with you
    • 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, business intelligence and related data functions and at least 3+ years in a leadership or management capacity.
    • Expertise with database modeling and data warehousing principles
    • Honed your SQL best practices by working with tools like dbt, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Snowflake
    • Honed your BI best practices through experience with tools like Looker, Tableau, Mode, or Periscope/Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
    • Experience using, building and enabling data analytics and ML infrastructure 
    • Experience with data platforms and technologies, including data lakes, data warehouses, data analytics, data science, BI & data visualization, data management and data governance
    • Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills 
    • Proficiency with SQL and a statistical analysis language (R/Python)
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
    • Proximity to NYC or willingness to travel once a quarter to NYC
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Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Benefits of working at Spring Health:
 
Focus on total health including:
Generous medical, dental, vision coverage available day 1 + access to One Medical
12 yearly no-cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists and medication management providers for you and your dependents
Unlimited paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave 
$500 per year Wellness Reimbursement
 
Supporting you financially through:
Our People team benchmarks all salaries to ensure all team members are paid competitively. On top of a competitive salary, Spring Health offers stock options that begin vesting one year into your role at the company
Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:
Flexible work arrangements: 60% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 40% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
Calm Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
$200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes
Our team members have created five employee resource groups thus far and looking to add on more
 
In addition to finding people who are truly excellent at what they do, we take our values at Spring Health seriously:
Members Come First We are genuine member advocates.
Move Fast to Change Lives We build with urgency and intention.
Take Ownership We extend trust and hold ourselves accountable.
Embrace Diverse Teams & Perspectives We find strength in the diversity of cultural backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
Science Will Win We will achieve impact by innovation and evidence based frameworks.
Candor with Care We are open, honest and empathetic.
 
Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about what motivates us and the ways we work to see if this is the right place for you: Our Values

Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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