Blink Health

Principal Data Scientist

Blink Health$150K — $180K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Data Science or related quantitative disciplines
  • Proven ability to convert complex business challenges into actionable data analyses
  • Expertise in statistical analysis, causal inference, and predictive modeling
  • Experience with AI technologies, including LLMs and agentic workflows
  • Proficiency in SQL and working with large datasets
  • Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages
  • Excellent communication skills for influencing stakeholders at all levels

Responsibilities

  • Develop deep insights into customer and patient behaviors
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform product strategy and prioritize roadmaps
  • Define metrics for product success and build measurement frameworks
  • Design AI-driven analytical tools that enhance productivity and decision-making
  • Apply statistical modeling and analytics to drive product strategy
  • Create scalable data models for quicker, data-informed decisions
  • Communicate actionable insights to executives and foster a data-driven product strategy
  • Mentor fellow data scientists and advocate for analytical best practices

Benefits

  • Opportunity for direct impact on healthcare commerce
  • Collaboration within a small, elite team of data professionals
  • Role focused on hands-on problem solving rather than strategic advising
  • Chance to work at the intersection of data science and product development
Full Job Description
About the Role

Bleak Rx is looking for a Principal Data Scientist to join a small, elite team of senior data practitioners operating at the very highest levels of the organization. This is an individual contributor role - not a strategic advisory seat - where you will roll up your sleeves and solve some of the most consequential problems in healthcare commerce.

You will sit at the intersection of data science, data engineering, and advanced analytics - building the algorithms, multidimensional models, and analytical frameworks that directly improve business outcomes and patient care. Critically, you will also influence your work: translating complex, multi-dimensional findings into clear narratives that business stakeholders can act on.
What You'll Do
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer and patient behavior to identify unmet needs, sources of product friction, and opportunities to improve the customer experience.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to translate customer insights into product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and measurable outcomes.
  • Define product success metrics and build measurement frameworks that evaluate customer engagement, adoption, retention, and business impact.
  • Design and build AI-powered analytical tools and agentic workflows that improve productivity, automate repetitive analyses, and enable more effective product decision-making.
  • Apply statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and exploratory analysis to better understand customer behavior and inform product strategy.
  • Build analytical tools and scalable data models that enable product teams to make faster, data-informed decisions.
  • Communicate clear, actionable insights and recommendations to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, influencing product strategy through data.
  • Mentor other data scientists and help establish best practices in experimentation, measurement, and analytical rigor.
What You'll Need
  • 10+ years of experience in Data Science, Product Analytics, Statistics, Economics, or another quantitative discipline.
  • Demonstrated success translating ambiguous business problems into actionable analytical solutions.
  • Deep expertise in statistical analysis, experimentation, causal inference, and predictive modeling.
  • Experience applying modern AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and agentic workflows, to solve business problems and improve analytical productivity.
  • Expert proficiency in SQL and experience working with large, complex datasets.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, R, or another analytical programming language.
  • Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering teams to guide product strategy through data.
  • Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau, Databricks or similar platforms.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.
  • A pragmatic, business-oriented approach to solving complex problems with data.
  • A growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for improving products through evidence-based decision making.
Nice to Have
  • Experience building AI-powered applications, evaluation harnesses, and agentic workflows for production use.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade machine learning and analytics solutions using Databricks (Delta Lake, MLflow, Feature Store, Model Serving, or related capabilities).
  • Experience working in healthcare, digital health, eCommerce, or consumer technology.
  • Experience mentoring data scientists and raising the bar for analytical excellence.

About Blink Health

Blink Health is a healthcare technology company that provides a platform for consumers to access prescription drugs at lower prices. The company was founded in 2014 by Geoffrey Chaiken and Matthew Chaiken and is headquartered in New York, New York. Blink Health partners with pharmacies and drug manufacturers to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs and passes the savings on to consumers. The company's platform allows consumers to search for and purchase prescription drugs online and pick them up at a local pharmacy. Blink Health is available in all 50 states and has partnerships with over 35,000 pharmacies nationwide.
Learn more about Blink Health
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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