Services Data Lead
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Project Healthy Minds is a mental health nonprofit that runs like a tech startup. We are pioneering a first-of-its-kind model: applying technology to address one of the biggest social issues of our time: the growing mental health crisis. We believe in a simple but profound idea: that it should be as easy to find mental health services as it is to book a flight or a restaurant reservation. Thats why were building the worlds first digital marketplace for finding mental health services that are right for you.
To do that we work with some of the most inspiring and influential leaders in America - business titans tech entrepreneurs clinicians and scientists musicians artists athletes media stars policymakers and more - because we believe that the worlds most complex challenges require interdisciplinary teams and solutions.
We are backed by a powerhouse of industry-leading Board of Directors and Advisory Council Members who are passionate hands-on and dive into the important work with us.
Learn more and @projecthealthyminds on social.
WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR
Were hiring a Services Data Lead to build a new set of mental health services for our platform on a focused six-month engagement.
We already have a schema and a curation pipeline but are looking to upgrade both as we expand the depth and breadth of services we list on our platform.
Youll consider the tradeoffs for the information users want and the challenges of acquiring/keeping it fresh overseeing the candidacy -> screening -> tagging pipeline direct a small bench of specialists and work across product engineering and our service partners to measurably improve the platforms offerings. Youll leave behind a documented repeatable process not just a better dataset. (Well walk you through the specific scope and priorities during the process.)
This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about mental health to help expand our platform offering and upgrade our operations in the process.
ENGAGEMENT & COMPENSATION
WHAT YOULL DO
Steward and evolve the services data schema & taxonomy. Its poised to expand and change. Youll provide input about what to add what to shift and what these changes costs us to source and maintain with judgment about how the data actually gets consumed downstream.
Own and iterate the curation pipeline. Sourcing screening and tagging. Make it better faster and (with the help of our engineering team) more automated.
Direct a small bench of data specialists. Set the quality bar write the SOPs and oversee the team to build out a substantial batch of services.
Work at the nexus of design product engineering and service partners. Youll liaise with multiple departments to identify the highest-value fields refine candidacy review processes and collaborate on how data is presented to users in the platform.
Advise on internal tooling. Youll be the sharpest user of our admin ingestion dedup and QA workflows work with our team to identify the most impactful improvements we can make.
Document the playbook. Transferable and clear good enough that whoever inherits this doesnt have to reverse-engineer your thinking.
WHAT YOULL BRING
Must-Haves:
A working understanding of healthcare services data ideally mental health specifically. Youll need a sense for what consumers need to know prior to making a decision where that data comes from and how frequently it changes.
Strongdata-schema and data-modeling judgment. Youve evolved schemas that survived contact with reality and you have opinions about what not to add. Fluent in Postgres/SQL.
Instinct for how data fits into a product you reason from who consumes the data backward to what and how to supply it.
Real experience runningdata operations with a human-in-the-loop or annotation component including directing distributed specialists to a quality bar.
Youveowned KPIs for data accuracy and freshness and can walk us through how you moved them.
Quality-systems and taxonomy thinking; you write the SOP you dont just follow it.
Comfortable working across product engineering and external partners.
Comfortable moving fast with limited scaffolding.
Nice-to-Haves:
AI- / LLM-assisted curation workflows.
HL7 FHIR or other health-data interoperability standards.
Experience building or maintaining a services dataset or provider directory
The hourly rate for this role is between $75 and $100 depending on experience skills and other relevant considerations.
Due to the high volume of applications received only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Introducing a new nonprofit for a new era of mental wellness. We're confronting one of the defining issues of our generation: the mental health crisis.