Director – Health AI and Data Science

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What You Will Do:
Guidehouse is seeking a Director in our Health AI and Data Science practice to lead the delivery of data products AI-enabled solutions and scientific support that help healthcare leaders make better faster decisions grounded in this role you will own end-to-end client delivery across multiple accounts and capabilities partnering with executives and product owners to translate priority decisions into clear use cases governed metrics and a roadmap of analytics decision intelligence and AI capabilities. You will provide day-to-day delivery leadership (scope schedule staffing risk and quality) guide multidisciplinary teams (data science data engineering analytics and UX/visualization) identify and support capture of new business and ensure solutions are secure scalable and adopted in the clients operating cadence. The ideal candidate combines strong consulting leadership a hypothesis-driven scientific research background and executive communication with enough technical depth to steer delivery tradeoffs and drive teams from discovery through implementation and measurable impact.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent AI data science (including qualitative/qualitative scientific support) and data product engagements ensuring on-time high-quality outcomes across public and commercial health workstreams vendors and client teams.

• Co-lead scientific support service line to support hypothesis-driven research statistical analyses peer-review manuscript publication and data-driven storytelling targeted to diverse audience personas (executives community etc.)

• Partner with client executives and product owners to define decision-centric use cases and success measures translating strategy into a prioritized roadmap of data products analytics and AI capabilities.

• Translate executive decisions into clear product requirements and governance (KPI definitions metric logic decision thresholds scenarios and action triggers) ensuring outputs are trusted repeatable and decision-ready.

• Direct analytics and model development across teamsframing hypotheses guiding quantitative and qualitative methods validating assumptions and driving from root cause to opportunity sizing prioritization and quantified value cases.

• Develop and quality-assure executive-ready deliverables (decision memos briefs and exhibits) that clearly communicate the so what tradeoffs and recommended actions for C-suite and senior government audiences.

• Lead senior stakeholder engagement and delivery governance running working sessions and executive readouts; synthesizing inputs; aligning decision-makers; managing risks and dependencies; and driving timely decisions across client and internal leadership.

• Build staff and grow high-performing delivery teams through an apprenticeship modelcoaching consultants through associate directors setting clear expectations and ensuring the right mix of functional technical and domain skills.

• Drive business development and account expansion (with emphasis on federal health accounts) leading proposals and capture efforts; shaping solution approaches; and developing reusable delivery accelerators and data product assets.

• Establish delivery standards for scalable secure data products including data quality practices documentation and responsible AI considerations appropriate for executive decision-making.

• Own engagement financial and operational performancemanaging scope budgets staffing and margins; monitoring delivery health; and proactively mitigating risks to ensure sustainable repeatable delivery.

What You Will Need:

• PhD degree in health sciences

• A minimum of TEN (10) years of experience in management consulting analytics AI data science and/or data product delivery including leading complex multi-workstream programs.

• A minimum of 10 years of people leadership experience including recruiting coaching performance management and building diverse high-performing teams.

• A minimum of FIVE (5 ) years supporting federal state and commercial health organizations including leading account management and business development capture especially the U.S.DepartmentofVeterans Affairs agency

• A minimum of FIVE (5) years of leading management and business capture of hypothesis-driven scientific support research activities including survey development and validation qualitative/quantitative statistical methods

• Demonstrated experience delivering executive-facing data products (e.g. KPI/metric layers dashboards forecasting/optimization decision intelligence) from discovery through launch and adoption.

• Proven ability to lead senior client stakeholders facilitate working sessions and produce clear compelling executive communications (briefs decision memos and presentations).

• Strong understanding of modern data and AI delivery practices (cloud data platforms data engineering MLOps data quality/observability and model risk management) sufficient to guide teams and make architectural tradeoffs.

• Experience owning delivery operations and financials including scope management staffing budgets risk/issue management and quality assurance across multiple engagements.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Healthcare data expertise: Hands-on familiarity with common healthcare data sources/standards (e.g. claims EHR HL7/FHIR HEDIS risk adjustment) and how they impact measurement and decision-making.

• People & practice growth: History of scaling teams building reusable assets/accelerators and contributing to thought leadership (whitepapers conference talks internal training).

• Budgeting & team orchestration: Experience owning delivery budgets/forecasts and structuring cross-functional teams roles and cadences to execute multi-workstream programs predictably.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical Rx Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity EmployerProtected Veterans Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law ordinance or regulation.

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