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# VP, Data Platform at Strive Health

- **Company:** Strive Health
- **Location:** Denver, CO
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/strivehealth/jobs/4708940006

## Job description

## How You’ll Make An Impact

At Strive Health, patients come first. We’re on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier, coordinating thoughtful care, and supporting people through every stage of their health journey.

Our work reduces emergency visits, improves outcomes, and helps patients live fuller lives. You’ll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact, show up for one another as One Team, and find ways to elevate the everyday.

If you’re looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter, you’ll feel right at home at Strive!

## Benefits & Perks

- Hybrid-Remote Flexibility – Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office, clinic, or patient home visits.
- Comprehensive Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee assistance programs, employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance, plus health and flexible spending accounts.
- Financial & Retirement Support – Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program, 401k with employer match, and financial wellness resources.
- Time Off & Leave – Paid holidays, vacation time, sick time, and paid birthgiving, bonding, sabbatical, and living donor leaves.
- Wellness & Growth – Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks, mental health support, and an annual professional development stipend.

To learn more about our offerings, click [here](https://strivehealth.com/careers/).

## What You'll Do

We are seeking a Vice President of Data Platform to lead Strive’s enterprise data platform, data architecture, and data governance capabilities. This leader will carry end-to-end accountability for the design, management, reliability, and evolution of Strive’s data warehouse and for ensuring that high-quality, well-governed data is available to the teams that depend on it.

The role will oversee the ingestion and hydration of the warehouse from a broad range of inbound data streams, including health plan (claims, revenue, benchmarks, adjustment, risk adjustment files), clinical, eligibility, pharmacy, laboratory, Admit, Discharge, Transfer (ADT), partner, and operational data. The Vice President of Data will ensure that data is transformed into trusted, reusable, and well-documented data products for Digital Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Medical Economics, Actuarial, Finance, Clinical, and Operations teams.

As a key member of the Technology leadership team, this leader will help establish data as a durable enterprise capability and a strategic foundation for clinical excellence, operational performance, artificial intelligence (AI), and value-based care.

We are looking for a candidate with strong leadership judgment, an entrepreneurial spirit, and excitement for building and scaling a trusted, enterprise data capability in a complex, mission-driven health-tech environment.

Essential Functions

- Own the vision, strategy, architecture, operating model, and long-term roadmap for Strive’s enterprise data warehouse and related data platform capabilities.
- Carry end-to-end accountability for the routine operation, production support, reliability, and maintenance of warehouse ingestion and hydration across claims, clinical, eligibility, pharmacy, laboratory, ADT, partner electronic health record (EHR), financial, and operational data sources.
- Establish scalable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-modeling patterns-including batch, incremental, change-data-capture, and streaming approaches-with appropriate attention to latency, cost, resiliency, recoverability, and supportability.
- Build and operationalize scalable processes that enable Analytics, Data Science, and Medical Economics teams to develop trusted metrics, reporting, and insights in the data warehouse.
- Establish optimization and efficiency practices that keep the warehouse running quickly and reliably for analytical workloads, and implement governance to identify, retire, and document outdated or redundant metrics.
- Lead Strive’s standard data governance initiatives and ensure that all teams follow consistent protocols across the warehouse.
- Design and operate a production observability and alerting model for ingestion, transformation, warehouse loads, dependencies, and downstream data products, covering freshness, completeness, volume, schema changes, accuracy, reconciliation, latency, availability, pipeline health, and downstream impact to ensure data quality.
- Own failed or degraded data-processing incidents from triage through verified closure, including severity assessment, alert routing, escalation, stakeholder communication, recovery, reruns, reprocessing, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements to mean time to detect and mean time to resolve.
- Establish and lead a durable data governance and quality-management process, including ownership, stewardship, data contracts, definitions, lineage, access, retention, prioritization, automated validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection, and issue resolution.
- Partner with Digital Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Medical Economics, and Actuarial teams to support reliable downstream consumption and production deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of analytical and machine-learning models.
- Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Clinical, and Technology leadership to make governed data available through reliable interfaces, application programming interfaces (APIs), events, and other appropriate consumption patterns while protecting Protected Health Information (PHI).
- Lead remediation of recurring data-quality issues and ingestion technical debt, and define operating metrics for freshness, completeness, accuracy, availability, alert quality, incident recurrence, service-level adherence, and request fulfillment.
- Recruit, develop, and retain the data organization; establish the right mix of data engineers, data architects, analytics engineers, evaluate and manage vendors, and consultants; and communicate data risks, tradeoffs, priorities, and production health clearly to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.

## Minimum Qualifications

- 10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or a related discipline, including experience building and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
- 8+ years of experience leading technical data teams, including responsibility for hiring, developing, managing, and aligning data engineers, architects, analytics engineers, or related technical professionals.
- 7+ years of experience designing and evolving a data warehouse, lakehouse, or comparable enterprise data platform serving multiple technical, analytical, and business stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience owning production operations for data pipelines and warehouse workloads, including monitoring, observability, alert triage, escalation, recovery, reprocessing, incident response, and preventive remediation.
- 5+ years of experience integrating complex and heterogeneous data sources, including structured, semi-structured, transactional, clinical, claims, or partner data.
- 5+ years of experience building governed data models, datasets, marts, semantic layers, or other reusable data products for downstream technical and business consumers.
- 3+ years of experience establishing or operating data governance and data-quality practices, including ownership, stewardship, lineage, documentation, data definitions, access controls, and issue management.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with Digital Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Finance, Actuarial, Medical Economics, Clinical, or Operations teams to deliver trusted data products, reporting, measures, or model inputs.
- Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms.
- Ability to travel and be on-site to meet business needs.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in healthcare, healthtech, health plans, provider organizations, value-based care, or another regulated environment where data quality, privacy, and auditability materially affect business and clinical outcomes.
- Experience with healthcare data and interoperability standards, including medical and pharmacy claims, clinical records, lab and  ADT data, FHIR,HL7), eligibility, utilization, quality, or risk-adjustment data.
- Experience working with modern cloud data platforms, relational and distributed data stores, ELT/ETL) frameworks, orchestration tools, APIs, event streams, and change-data-capture patterns.
- Experience improving data freshness through selective use of near-real-time or streaming architectures where the business value justifies the added complexity and cost.
- Experience supporting actuarial, medical economics, risk adjustment, quality, financial, or population-health models and reporting.
- Experience supporting machine-learning or AI systems through reliable feature pipelines, training datasets, inference inputs, monitoring, and data lineage.
- Experience leading data-platform modernization, technical-debt reduction, source-system consolidation, or migration from fragmented legacy data environments.

## About You

- You communicate clearly and credibly with technical, clinical, operational, and executive audiences, especially when explaining data risk, tradeoffs, incidents, and decisions.
- You bring high integrity, dependability, sound judgment, and a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and results orientation.
- You are action-oriented and pragmatic, with the ability to translate broad data strategy into achievable steps, operating mechanisms, and measurable improvements while maintaining appropriate review discipline.
- You are committed to building a data culture that is rigorous, service-oriented, transparent, and focused on making high-quality data easier to use responsibly.
- You meet Strive’s internet connectivity requirement: minimum speeds of 3.8 Mbps download and 3.0 Mbps upload, with latency below 60 milliseconds.
- You are able to travel and work onsite as needed to meet business requirements and connect with stakeholders, serve patients, and attend Strive-sponsored team events.

Annual Salary Range: $173,000 - $231,000. This position is also eligible for a target annual bonus of 30% Final compensation will be determined based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to talentacquisition@strivehealth.com.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Strive Health will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.

## About Strive Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Strive Health is the nation’s leader in value-based kidney care, using a combination of AI-powered technology and high-touch care teams to improve outcomes for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Chris Riopelle (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare (value-based kidney care, population health management)
- **Target customers**: B2B — partners with commercial and Medicare Advantage payors, Medicare, health systems, and physician groups through flexible value-based payment arrangements.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Redefining care. Elevating life." Their tagline is "Creating better futures for people with complex chronic conditions, one patient at a time."

## Products & Services
- **CareMultiplier™**: A kidney disease-specific, machine learning technology platform that helps clinicians create individualized care plans and optimize clinical outcomes. It is certified by HITRUST.
- **Multispecialty, NP-led Care Teams**: High-touch, compassionate care teams that act as care extenders to provider partners, powered by predictive analytics and advanced technology.
- **Population Health Programs**: Accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), these programs focus on risk identification, care coordination, and reducing hospitalizations.
- **Strive Care Partners**: A nephrologist-led, complete care model for people with kidney conditions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company).
- **Key Metric**: Serves over **150,000+** people with kidney disease across all 50 states. Partners with **6,500+** individual providers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with major payors including United Healthcare and Kaiser. Specific funding details are not in the provided search results, but the company is well-established with over 800 employees ("Strivers").
- **Growth Signals**: Demonstrates strong clinical outcomes: 85% increase in optimal starts, 34% reduction in hospital readmissions, 41% reduction in hospitalizations, and 62% increase in home dialysis adoption [strivehealth.com](https://strivehealth.com/strive-metrics/). The company recently evolved its mission and core values in 2026 to reflect its next chapter of growth [strivehealth.com](https://strivehealth.com/news/the-evolution-of-strives-mission-and-core-values/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Value-Based Care Model**: Combines AI-driven predictive analytics (CareMultiplier™) with high-touch, NP-led care teams, creating a unique "high-tech, high-touch" approach.
- **Proven Outcomes**: Demonstrated significant reductions in hospitalizations and readmissions, and increases in home dialysis adoption — key metrics that lower total cost of care for partners.
- **National Scale & Accreditation**: Operates in all 50 states, partners with over 6,500 providers, and holds NCQA accreditation for its population health programs and HITRUST certification for its technology platform.
- **Strong Partner Network**: Deep integration with major payors (United Healthcare, Kaiser) and health systems provides a robust moat.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Value-Based Kidney Care**: Scaling its integrated care model to serve more patients with CKD and ESKD, as well as those with complex chronic conditions that often occur alongside kidney disease.
- **Deepening Technology & Analytics**: Continuing to enhance CareMultiplier™ with AI and machine learning to improve risk prediction and individualized care plans.
- **Evolving Mission**: In 2026, the company refreshed its mission and values to "Redefining care. Elevating life," signaling a broader focus on creating better futures for people with complex chronic conditions [strivehealth.com](https://strivehealth.com/news/the-evolution-of-strives-mission-and-core-values/).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees ("Strivers") have a direct impact on the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease, improving outcomes and reducing hospitalizations. The work is described as "transformational" and "making a difference."
- **Culture & Values**: A strong values-based culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Parents/Guardians/Caregivers, LGBTQIA+ (Strive Forward), Underrepresented Minorities, Women & Allies, and Veterans.
- **Work Policy**: **Hybrid-Remote** approach — team members can work from home while collaborating in person when needed. A full technology package and monthly technology reimbursement are provided.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**:
    - **Paid Leave**: 12 weeks of paid birth-giving leave, 4 weeks of paid bonding leave (starting day one), and a 4-week paid sabbatical after five years. Paid living donor leave is also available.
    - **Time Off**: Vacation time, sick time (up to two weeks), paid holidays, and annual "Well-Being Days" focused on employee well-being.
    - **Health & Wellness**: Medical (HMO, PPO, HDHP via United Healthcare and Kaiser), dental, vision (starting day one). Access to Headspace Care, Calm Health, and an Employee Assistance Program.
    - **Financial**: 401k with employer match, access to financial planning tools (Empower, SoFi).
    - **Professional Development**: Annual professional development reimbursements, paid time off for clinical licensure requirements, and tuition discounts through CSU Global.
    - **Additional Perks**: Pet insurance (Fetch), product discounts (PerkSpot), family-forming support (Maven Maternity).

## Sources
1. [Strive Health Official Site](https://strivehealth.com/)
2. [Strive Health Company Page](https://strivehealth.com/company/)
3. [Strive Health Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/strivehealth)
4. [Strive Health LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/strive-health)
5. [Strive Health Metrics Page](https://strivehealth.com/strive-metrics/)
6. [The Evolution of Strive’s Mission and Core Values](https://strivehealth.com/news/the-evolution-of-strives-mission-and-core-values/)

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