--- title: 'Head of US Healthcare Data Science (AI SaaS Healthcare Products) at Shift Technology' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-us-healthcare-data-science-ai-saas-healthcare-products-shift-technology-464vyf3cy88t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Head of US Healthcare Data Science (AI SaaS Healthcare Products) at Shift Technology - **Company:** Shift Technology - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $160k–$200k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/shifttechnology/jobs/7806205003 ## Job description Shift delivers AI agents that transform insurers' most critical work. By combining deep industry expertise and unmatched data resources, Shift provides proven results that have earned the trust of hundreds of the world's leading insurers. Our insurance-grade AI is accurate, explainable, and secure—empowering human experts to move with unmatched speed, total confidence, and a renewed focus on the people they serve. Your browser does not support the video tag. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry through our SaaS platform. We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance. Learn more at [www.shift-technology.com](http://www.shift-technology.com) This role leads the strategic expansion of our US Health AI roadmap. You will guide and scale a high-performing group of Data Scientists and Engineers focused on US Health, within our global 200+ person Data Science organization.  We are looking for a pragmatic visionary, a leader who views AI not as a feature to patch onto existing software, but as the foundational architecture for the future of healthcare payment integrity. You will be responsible for moving past basic automation into true Agentic AI, balancing rapid, bleeding-edge innovation with the rigorous, explainable guardrails required in healthcare compliance. What you'll do... - Define the AI Strategy: Own and execute the technical and strategic roadmap for the US Health payment integrity division, shifting the product line from passive anomaly detection to autonomous, multi-modal AI agents. - Lead Architectural Innovation: Champion the design and productization of robust data pipelines optimized for LLMs, ensuring the team successfully deploys advanced agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI Agent SDK, MCP, A2A). - Enforce Responsible AI: Establish and oversee rigorous evaluation frameworks (including LLM-as-a-judge methodologies) to ensure all agentic decisions are completely unbiased, legally sound, secure, and fully explainable to enterprise clients. - Cultivate a High-Performance Team: Mentor, grow, and empower senior and junior data scientists. Foster a culture of high autonomy, rapid MVP prototyping, and continuous experimentation with next-generation AI stacks. - Client Advocacy & Executive Bridge: Lead high-impact client workshops, present cutting-edge prototypes, and translate complex technical architectures into clear, value-driven outcomes for healthcare payer executives and C-suite stakeholders. - Model-Agnostic Governance: Maintain a modular, agile product strategy, ensuring Shift’s infrastructure allows for seamless integration and swapping of underlying capabilities as the market evolves. What you bring... - You are an inspiring technical leader with 7+ years of Data Science experience, including a proven track record of leading teams of 7+ members for the past 5+ years with a deep understanding of Healthcare Insurance Payment Integrity / Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA). - Advanced Generative AI Expertise: Proven hands-on experience designing and scaling production-level Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG systems, and autonomous multi-modal agent workflows. - Enterprise Technical Leadership: Strong background in object-oriented programming (OOP) and machine learning fundamentals, with a deep understanding of the full ML lifecycle (monitoring, versioning, and deployment). - Strategic Databricks & ML flow Mastery: Deep familiarity with managing enterprise AI environments utilizing Mosaic AI, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and leveraging MLflow for end-to-end experiment tracking and prompt engineering. - Exceptional Communication: A demonstrated ability to co-create products alongside clients, manage complex stakeholder expectations, and act as a bridge between deep technical execution and commercial business needs. Highly desired skills... - Active contributions to open-source agentic frameworks or the broader AI research community. - Experience navigating complex healthcare compliance landscapes (HIPAA, HITRUST) within cloud-hosted SaaS environments (Azure/Databricks). The range listed is for base compensation.  Your actual base salary will vary based on factors including location and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. In addition to base salary, your total rewards package will include additional components such as incentive pay and benefits.  If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the specific details for this position. Base Salary Pay Range $160,000—$200,000 USD To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight: - Flexible remote and hybrid working options - Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance - Multiple Learning and Development opportunities, including Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth - Generous PTO and paid holidays - Mental health benefits - 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering) Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice positions may receive some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details. AI tools are used to help review applications for this role. Read our [AI in Recruitment Notice](https://www.shift-technology.com/hubfs/AI%20in%20Recruitment%20Notice%20May%202026.pdf) for what the AI considers, how to request a human review, and our most recent bias audit. At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria. Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@shift-technology.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. Please be aware of scammers and only trust correspondence that comes from emails ending in "shift-technology.com". We will never do initial outreach to you via Whatsapp/Text/SMS, never ask for banking information or personal identification numbers (ex. Social Security Number) as part of our recruitment process. Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology. ## About Shift Technology ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Shift Technology delivers AI agents that transform insurers' most critical work, including fraud detection, claims management, and payment integrity. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D - II) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Jeremy Jawish (CEO), Eric Sibony, David Durrleman ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Insurance Technology (InsurTech) / Artificial Intelligence - **Target customers**: B2B — Leading Property & Casualty (P&C), Health, Travel, Workers' Compensation, and Life insurers globally - **Mission**: To free insurers to be there for more customers in more ways than ever before - **Vision**: To imagine and invent solutions that transform insurance decisions for the benefit of all ## Products & Services - **Claims Fraud**: AI agents that detect suspicious claims with high accuracy, analyzing structured and unstructured data (documents, images, videos, location, weather). Provides prioritized alerts and detailed reasoning for claims handlers and SIU investigators. Claims to identify double the potential fraud vs. competitors. - **Payment Integrity**: AI-driven solution to ensure healthcare payment accuracy and maximize plan savings. - **Coverage & Liability**: Agents that assess policy coverage, liability, potential for agreement, and evidence strength to guide final claim determination. - **Injury**: AI agents to assess applicability of medical billing, estimate medical duration, and develop accurate treatment plans. - **Subrogation**: Agents that assess subrogation opportunity, create initial demand packages, review third-party insurer responses, and guide negotiations. - **Process**: Agents that accelerate claim handling, mitigate loss, and identify customer satisfaction concerns early. - **Insurance Data Network (IDN)**: An agentic intelligence layer that assesses cross-carrier claim history, synthesizes key insights, and recommends next actions for claims handlers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Total Funding**: $319.72M raised as of May 2021 (Series D - II) - **Key Metric**: 4B+ policies, claims, and documents analyzed to date; 350M+ policyholders globally have benefitted from Shift products - **Notable Investors**: Accel, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Guidewire, Iris Capital (and 15+ others) - **Customer Base**: 120+ customers in 30+ countries; 100% of the top 5 U.S. P&C insurers trust Shift - **Growth Signals**: Five-year renewal with AXA (across 15 countries); new partnership with Insurance Council of Australia and EXL; Covéa partnership for fraud and risk management; named to La French Tech's list of innovative tech companies for 6th consecutive year; recipient of Celent Luminary 2024 Insurance Fraud Solutions award (P&C and Health) ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance-grade AI**: Deeply specialized AI that is accurate, explainable, and secure — purpose-built for insurance workflows - **Deep industry expertise**: Combines deep domain knowledge with unmatched data resources (100+ third-party data sources and industry partners) - **Proven trust**: 100% of the top 5 U.S. P&C insurers trust Shift; 120+ enterprise customers globally - **Global scale**: 10 offices worldwide (Paris, Boston, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Madrid, Toronto, Mexico City, São Paulo) - **Unmatched data advantage**: 4B+ policies, claims, and documents analyzed, providing a massive data moat ## Strategic Focus - **AI agent expansion**: Moving beyond fraud detection to a full suite of AI agents covering the entire claims lifecycle (coverage, liability, injury, subrogation, payment integrity) - **Global expansion**: Deepening presence in key markets (US, Japan, Germany, UK, Canada, Latin America, Asia) - **Agentic intelligence**: Building the Insurance Data Network as a cross-carrier intelligence layer to transform how claims data is shared and acted upon - **Strategic partnerships**: Renewing and expanding relationships with major insurers like AXA and new collaborations like the Insurance Council of Australia ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: "Insurance is a force for good" — employees work on technology that makes insurance decisions faster, fairer, and more transparent for millions of people - **Values**: "Think big," "Trust talent," "Focus on what matters to customers," "We are stronger together," "We make it happen" - **Technology-first organization**: A strong engineering and data science culture with roles in AI, data engineering, full-stack development, and security - **Global & diverse**: 10 offices across 4 continents; team members from diverse backgrounds and locations - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Many roles offer remote flexibility (France, US, Germany, Spain); some roles are office-based (Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Boston) - **Career growth**: Open roles across Data Science, Engineering, Product, Project Management, Sales, and Customer Success — from graduate to senior leadership levels - **Impact**: Work on problems that affect hundreds of millions of policyholders globally, with access to one of the largest insurance datasets in the world ## Sources 1. [shift-technology.com](https://www.shift-technology.com/) 2. [shift-technology.com/careers](https://www.shift-technology.com/careers) 3. [shift-technology.com/about](https://www.shift-technology.com/about) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/shift-technology) 5. 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