Machine Learning Manager

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About us: 

At Ginger, we believe that everyone deserves access to incredible mental healthcare. Our on-demand system brings together behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to deliver personalized care, right through your smartphone. The Ginger app provides members with access to the support they need within seconds, 24/7, 365 days a year. Millions of people have access to Ginger through leading employers, health plans, and our network of partners. Ginger has been recognized by The World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Healthcare.

About the role: 

Job Description

Ginger is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with outstanding expertise in applied Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to lead the ML team in boosting quality and scalability at Ginger. The ML team uses our large and unique datasets to model, understand, and predict emotional and cognitive state, care quality, factors driving optimal well-being and many other essential signals. 

Machine learning (ML) in the Data Science team moves the needle for Ginger with:

  • Products developed, launched and supported that drive scalability, introduce next-level efficiency and increase quality of care to superhuman levels previously unseen.
  • Deep multi-dimensional actionable understanding of our members, caregivers, and treatments unlocked in the form of features generated, stored and surfaced by our ever-growing state of the art AI engine.

As our Machine Learning Manager, you will run ML at Ginger, leading our innovative team to algorithmically leverage multi-dimensional data to better serve our members, caregivers and internal teams. Partnering closely with both caregiver and member product teams, you'll work synergistically to ideate projects and deliver value to our customers via applied machine learning. You will also lead discussions within your team and the whole DS team to identify new significant opportunities that will expand our capabilities.  We are looking for someone who will thrive in a fast-paced environment and can be hands-on when needed.

This role is a part of the Data Science team and will report to the Director of Data Science.

What you'll do

As a leader of the machine learning team you’ll:

  • Influence and manage the technical vision and strategy for machine learning at Ginger. Build, own and iteratively update the long-term ML roadmap, planning key quarterly deliverables which are high-impact and achievable. Define key metrics and thresholds of success at multiple levels from algorithm to team.
  • Stay on top of the state of the art (SOTA), identify new opportunities, and lead the team to innovate in areas such as: 
    • Natural Language Processing applied to behavioral health conversations, all the way up to Conversational AI
    • Time series forecasting using multiple heterogeneous data sources
    • Therapeutic content recommendation systems
  • Lead teams to bring robust efficient SOTA models to production, maximizing performance while minimizing complexity; design and build infrastructure and systems for monitoring model inputs and feature outputs, tracking quality, usage, and consistency
  • Recruit and integrate high-caliber talent into an already incredible team (size of 4, growing fast 2x or more this year). Mentor and develop promising ML engineers technically and professionally into exceptional talent. 
  • Support a culture of collaboration, curiosity and fun.
  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, care, and engineering teams to scope initiatives and prioritize efforts that will bring your team’s magic to life. 
  • Effectively communicate your team’s work with senior leadership, achieve buy-in from partners, and align on staffing needs 

Necessary skills

  • 6+ years using ML to solve real-world problems with large datasets in industry.
  • 3+ years as a tech lead or beyond of team size 3 or greater. 1+ years managing and scaling teams of 3+ engineers.
  • Project management skills for planning and executing complex projects with multiple contributors, coordinating with several other teams. Efficient shipper of effective solutions. Can triage and solve open-ended, ambiguous systems-level sets of problems.
  • Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. Can gain trust of the team and guide their careers with strong communication, coaching, and prioritization skills as well as high EQ.
  • Fluency in Python and its ecosystem (see below). Ability to write production code as needed.
  • Recent experience building, deploying, and managing production ML systems and data-driven products at scale.
  • Statistical and mathematical intuition with an appreciation for concepts such as causality, selection bias, incrementality, hypothesis testing, etc.
  • Values of collaboration, transparency, and psychological safety. You lead by example, embodying these important aspects of success. People-focused, inspiring, and fun!
  • BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, Applied Sciences and Engineering; or equivalent real-world experience.

Ideal

  • Experience in human data annotation (including active learning), tracking inter-annotator agreement and ensuring quality of resulting models
  • Skilled building and architecting large-scale, production quality backend systems, especially in applied machine learning or data pipeline/warehousing
  • Strong understanding of privacy and its implications for modern ML systems.
  • Experience with modern ML techniques and systems like data augmentation, feature stores and federated learning.
  • Advanced physiological and actigraphy-based signal understanding and integration.
  • Experience in the healthcare space

Some technologies we use

  • Python and its ecosystem of tools (examples): ML (scikit-learn, XGBoost), deep learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow), NLP (Spacy, HuggingFace, large language models like BERT), analysis (Pandas, SQL, Spark).
  • Amazon SageMaker (exploration, training and production endpoints)
  • Looker (BI tool where we surface data to stakeholders)
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We are located in the lively SOMA neighborhood of downtown San Francisco, conveniently located near tons of eateries and public transportation.

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