Lead Director, Data Science – Clinical AI
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Lead Director guiding CVS Health’s production clinical AI strategy across healthcare businesses. Managing data science teams and advancing trustworthy, scalable machine learning using clinical data.
Responsibilities:
- Set the AI strategy and technical goals for the clinical AI portfolio with product and engineering
- Define standards for clinical AI capabilities in production and measure progress against them
- Co-shape portfolio technical direction and resolve cross-discipline tradeoffs
- Ensure clinical AI capabilities integrate with the broader clinical intelligence platform
- Translate CVS Health and regulatory requirements into engineering and modeling practices
- Advance use of modern AI and machine learning, including large language models and generative AI, on clinical data
- Raise standards for model evaluation, monitoring, and clinical validation
- Improve production AI cost, latency, reliability, and scalability
- Promote reusable model patterns, evaluation harnesses, and generalizable approaches
- Directly manage and develop data scientists across portfolio squads
- Hire, coach, and retain clinical AI talent and develop senior technical leaders
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or applied AI
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying machine learning and deep learning solutions
- Experience with natural language processing, large language models, and generative AI
- 5+ years setting AI/ML technical direction across multiple teams
- 5+ years of people management experience, including hiring, developing, and retaining technical teams
- Experience delivering healthcare AI or analytics capabilities to production at enterprise scale
- Experience with clinical, claims, or member data
- Production ML experience with model evaluation, monitoring, lifecycle management, cost, latency, reliability, and scalability tradeoffs
- Experience operating under healthcare AI regulatory and responsible AI constraints, including HIPAA, NCQA or equivalent standards, and AI governance guidance
- Fluency in Python and SQL
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with senior product, engineering, and executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline
- Master's degree or higher preferred
Benefits:
- CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program
- Equity award program
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings options
- Wellness programs
- Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being




















