What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager I, Data Science position at Inroads?
About Inroads
Inroads applies data, analytics, technology, research, and content development to co-create services and programs that are personalized, relevant, and engaging for the communities who rely on them. Our deep understanding of digital services, policy implementation, and ways communities consume information allows us to seamlessly integrate with organizations and public sector teams to revolutionize the ways they deliver complex services at scale.
About The Role
This position will play an instrumental role in a portfolio of work that focuses on the way government agencies use data to reduce the friction between residents and the essential services they use. Our projects engage primarily in the federal healthcare space, including with Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace, VA, and others. You will work with a team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to drive high-impact results for millions of Americans. The Manager I, Data Science will tackle hands-on analytics and propose thoughtful new ideas on our deliverables that advance program objectives and inform client decision-making.
In This Position You Will
Inroads offers a friendly work environment and competitive compensation and benefits package including:
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, Inroads strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment, and may ask employees to provide proof of COVID vaccination upon request, in each case unless the employee has an approved request for medical or religious accommodation or exemption, or except where prohibited by law. Inroads will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability, pregnancy, or on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws. Inroads adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations.
At Inroads, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. Inroads endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations. Inroads participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law.
Collection Of Personal Information Notice
As you are likely aware, by submitting your job application, you are submitting personal information to our company. We collect various categories of personal information, including identifiers, protected classifications, professional or employment related information and sensitive personal information. We may retain and use this information for up to three years, in order to come to a decision on whether or not you are a good fit for our company. We may also retain or use some of this information to comply with any requirements under law, or for purposes of defending ourselves in any litigation. We do not use this information for any other purpose, or share it with third parties, unless you become an employee. To learn more, or to see our full Notice to Job Applicants, please click here.
Inroads applies data, analytics, technology, research, and content development to co-create services and programs that are personalized, relevant, and engaging for the communities who rely on them. Our deep understanding of digital services, policy implementation, and ways communities consume information allows us to seamlessly integrate with organizations and public sector teams to revolutionize the ways they deliver complex services at scale.
About The Role
This position will play an instrumental role in a portfolio of work that focuses on the way government agencies use data to reduce the friction between residents and the essential services they use. Our projects engage primarily in the federal healthcare space, including with Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace, VA, and others. You will work with a team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to drive high-impact results for millions of Americans. The Manager I, Data Science will tackle hands-on analytics and propose thoughtful new ideas on our deliverables that advance program objectives and inform client decision-making.
In This Position You Will
- Conduct and take ownership of data analysis from disparate data sources to distill human-centered operations and processes into meaningful insights, as well as contribute to the design, implementation, and delivery of analytics products and services
- Devise data analysis and data management strategies to create systematic methods of measuring performance across complex systems and technical implementations.
- Critically evaluate analytical processes, tools, and deliverables, and offer informed opinions on solutions that improve the quality of the team’s work.
- Develop KPIs and metrics, build predictive models and tools,, and develop compelling visualizations to allow clients to easily understand challenges and take a clear action.
- Check, clean and transform incoming data for data pipelines, and help others to do the same.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, program managers and external stakeholders to troubleshoot problems, support the development of project plans, and proactively create solutions.
- Strive to support team excellence by developing high quality documentation.
- Take ownership of task areas and strive to independently resolve challenges, and guide more junior analysts to do the same in order to deliver accurate products on short deadlines.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 3 years of applied experience working with structured/unstructured data.
- An undergraduate degree or higher in a quantitative field or equivalent technical training.
- Strong understanding of how to manipulate data using SQL and Python, and working within cloud-based analytics systems (e.g. Snowflake and DBT).
- Experience in and ability to apply your knowledge of foundations of statistics and modeling (distributions, parameter estimation, confidence intervals and tests, logistic regression and significance testing, etc.)
- Proficiency creating and testing data transformation processes, and automating repeatable tasks.
- An interest in data investigation, solving puzzles, finding patterns in complex data, and proposing solutions that improve both client understanding and end user satisfaction.
- Experience going from insight to impact: using the results of your analysis to tell an informative and engaging story through visualization, presentation, and writing for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable working independently to drive portions of larger projects, developing solutions and guiding analyses from conception through to conclusion that blend data-driven decision-making with thoughtful understanding of human-centered design/processes.
- Experience working in an agile work environment and a strong grasp of version control (i.e. git).
- Ability to extend your expertise to guide more junior analysts by reviewing work for quality and alignment with business requirements, helping to organize raw analysis into consumable stories and recommendations, adding context, and refining ideation and solutioning in the team’s work.
- Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate within a cross-functional, client-facing team environment.
- The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust background investigation that our government clients require; this includes a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship, or U.S. residency for three of the past five years (minimum 36 of the past 60 months).
- Experience working with healthcare beneficiary and claims data, especially federal healthcare systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace, or Veterans Affairs.
- Experience evaluating and improving the effectiveness of large-scale directly addressable outreach campaigns (email, SMS, autodial, etc.)
- Experience improving the ways beneficiaries interact with information about their healthcare coverage, constituent beneficiary identification and communication, and database maintenance and development.
- Experience with SQL in a Redshift environment is a plus.
- Experience with Quicksight, Tableau, and Adobe Analytics is a plus.
Inroads offers a friendly work environment and competitive compensation and benefits package including:
- Salary: $85,000
- Premier health insurance plan
- 401K matching
- Unlimited vacation leave
- Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
- 13 paid holidays
- 15 weeks paid parental leave
- Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Supportive & collaborative culture
- Flexible working hours
- Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, as a company policy, Inroads strongly encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning employment, and may ask employees to provide proof of COVID vaccination upon request, in each case unless the employee has an approved request for medical or religious accommodation or exemption, or except where prohibited by law. Inroads will evaluate requests for reasonable accommodations for applicants unable to be vaccinated due to a religious belief, disability, pregnancy, or on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable laws. Inroads adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations.
At Inroads, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. Inroads endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations. Inroads participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law.
Collection Of Personal Information Notice
As you are likely aware, by submitting your job application, you are submitting personal information to our company. We collect various categories of personal information, including identifiers, protected classifications, professional or employment related information and sensitive personal information. We may retain and use this information for up to three years, in order to come to a decision on whether or not you are a good fit for our company. We may also retain or use some of this information to comply with any requirements under law, or for purposes of defending ourselves in any litigation. We do not use this information for any other purpose, or share it with third parties, unless you become an employee. To learn more, or to see our full Notice to Job Applicants, please click here.
Salary : $85,000
