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title: 'Applied Science Manager at Clipboard'
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# Applied Science Manager at Clipboard

- **Company:** Clipboard
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clipboard/6249bf93-6b5f-4614-9617-8d00bb916fbe

## Job description

## About Clipboard

Our mission is to uplift as many communities as possible. We do this through our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with the workplaces that need amazing workers. This enables hundreds of thousands of people to achieve financial stability for themselves and their families while providing essential care to millions of people across the U.S.

Founded in 2016, we are a remote-first team of over 1,000 people building a top [Y-Combinator company](https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/) and have been profitable since 2022. We’re the leader in Long-Term Care staffing and are rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and more, meaning we have more work to do than people to do it, and are growing our team to support millions more people and their communities.

## The Role

We're looking for an Applied Science Manager to build and lead Clipboard's Applied Science function, owning the roadmap and vision for science across the marketplace.

You'd be leading a small team of Applied Scientists and growing the function. The team owns the quantitative infrastructure underneath the marketplace: pricing algorithms, auction mechanisms, causal models, metric definitions, and experiment frameworks. Some of that work ships as product; some becomes the analytical substrate every team in the company depends on.

You'll set the bar for the function: defining our key metrics, how we measure them, and how we report on marketplace performance. Teams across product and engineering will build on the models, experiments, and insights your team produces.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, finance, and operations. There will always be more valuable problems than the team can take on, so you'll decide what we work on, in what order, and what success looks like. That means balancing production work with analysis other teams depend on, knowing when a question requires careful causal identification versus a quick directional answer, and pushing back when the expected value isn't there. Priorities will shift, and you'll keep the team focused on the highest-impact work.

You'll also hire and develop the Applied Science team. This is a player-coach role: you'll mentor Applied Scientists across levels while staying close enough to the work to take on important IC problems yourself.

Our toolkit includes causal inference, machine learning, randomized experiments, discrete-time hazard models, auction/mechanism design, and time series analysis. You'll work directly with engineers to take models from prototype to production and communicate your reasoning clearly to PMs, operators, and leadership.

## Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and deploying quantitative models in applied or research settings.
- Fluency querying data directly with SQL or an equivalent tool.
- Experience designing and analyzing controlled experiments.
- 1-3 years of experience managing or leading a team.

Who Thrives Here

- PhD/Masters in economics, operations research, statistics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent quantitative depth from research or trading.
- Track record of taking prediction models from idea to production.
- Strong grounding in experimental design and causal inference.
- Experience in quantitative finance, economic consulting, marketplaces, or another data-intensive environment where decisions have real business consequences.

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## About Clipboard

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clipboard is a remote-first labor marketplace that connects healthcare and dental professionals with workplaces needing to fill shifts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, backed by Sequoia Capital and Y-Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Wei Deng (Founder and Co-CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare staffing / Labor marketplace / Internet marketplace platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B (healthcare facilities, long-term care homes, hospitals, dental clinics, childcare centers) and B2C (healthcare workers, CNAs, nurses, hygienists)
- **Mission statement**: "Uplift as many communities as possible" by connecting healthcare professionals with workplaces that need workers, helping people achieve financial stability while providing essential care.

## Products & Services
- **Clipboard Marketplace**: An app-based platform where workplaces post open shifts and workers browse and claim them. Covers shift posting, scheduling, worker matching, documentation, and payment. Features include call-off coverage (automatic replacement if a worker cancels), Instant Pay, and worker vetting.
- **Built For** (Industry Verticals): Long-Term Care, Hospitals, Home Health & Hospice, Dental Care, Childcare.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.3 Billion (latest reported valuation)
- **Key Metric**: Profitable since 2022 (with heavy reinvestment in growth). Total funding raised: $94.1 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, IVP, Y-Combinator.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Over 9 million shifts covered across healthcare industries.
    - Serves over 6,500 workplaces and 1 million workers across the U.S.
    - 6,500 communities served.
    - 125,000 workers have earned over $1,000 on the platform.
    - 95% of shifts get staffed when posted a day in advance; 85% are filled by a professional the workplace has worked with before.
    - Rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and other verticals beyond their leadership position in Long-Term Care.
    - Headcount of 3,606 employees with 2.7% monthly growth and a 34% monthly increase in job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market Leadership**: Dominant player in Long-Term Care staffing in the U.S.
- **High Fill Rate & Retention**: 95% fill rate for shifts posted a day in advance and 85% of shifts filled by known workers create a strong network effect and reliability for facilities.
- **Profitable Business Model**: Profitable since 2022, indicating a sustainable unit economy while still reinvesting heavily in growth.
- **Full Vertical Integration**: Handles the entire workflow from posting and scheduling to payment and compliance, reducing administrative burden for facilities.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Founder Wei Deng got her own CNA certification to deeply understand the customer experience, fostering a culture of extreme customer empathy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Vertical Expansion**: Moving beyond its stronghold in Long-Term Care into adjacent high-need verticals like Hospitals, Home Health & Hospice, Dental Care, and Childcare.
- **Product & Automation**: Investing in automation to reduce friction for both facilities and workers (e.g., automatic call-off coverage, streamlined scheduling).
- **Geographic Growth**: Expanding its network of workers and facilities across more communities in the U.S.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, and operations to fuel growth (63 active job postings).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "remote first, high trust, and written." The team thrives on autonomy, makes decisions in live documents, and moves fast. Values include "Customer-First Mindset," "Extreme Ownership," "Increasingly High Standards," "Humility," and "Think from First Principles."
- **Work Model**: Remote-first with physical offices in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.
- **Impact**: Employees directly contribute to solving critical staffing shortages in healthcare, helping workers achieve financial stability and ensuring patients receive care.
- **Financial Health**: Profitable and growing, backed by top-tier investors (Sequoia, YC), providing job stability.
- **Growth Opportunities**: Rapidly scaling company (3,600+ employees, growing) with a wide range of open roles across the organization.

## Sources
1. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/careers)
2. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/about)
3. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clipboard)

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