Director, Data & AI

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Department: Machine Learning

Opportunity Overview:

We are seeking a Director of Data & AI to join our product development team. In this role, you will lead world-class analytics, data science, and machine learning teams to enable clinical insights and precision AI. You’ll partner closely with product, design, and software engineering to drive the research and development of data-centric solutions. 

As a member of the leadership team, you’ll work closely with business and AI partners across the globe to co-create solutions and drive the seamless execution of critical initiatives. You’ll have the opportunity to apply deep analytics and AI expertise to deliver products that transform healthcare. You’ll foster a culture of innovation, champion Cohere’s values and leadership principle, and guide a team of engineers, analysts, and scientists to leverage complex healthcare data and methodologies in a fast-paced, rapidly-evolving landscape answering critical business and clinical questions. By combining modern analytic tools, methodologies, and AI technologies to meet challenging and open-ended business requests, this crucial role molds our analysis and builds data-driven analytics products. 

What you’ll do:

• Recruit and build high-caliber machine learning, data science, and business intelligence development team
• Leadership and Management:
• Lead and manage engineering teams, including recruitment, mentorship, and performance evaluation.
• Nurture a collaborative and innovative culture within the team and throughout the organization
• Develop and implement strategic plans for the Data & AI department in alignment with the company’s goals
• Ownership and accountability of key quality and delivery metrics of the Data & AI solutions, including time to value, model accuracy, etc.
• Collaboration and Communication
• Partner with Cohere Health’s US-based Data & AI team and assure consistent technical strategy, aligned roadmaps, and value-centric delivery approaches.
• Collaborate with cross-functional product, clinical, and engineering partners to understand their needs, recommend solution approaches, and develop execution strategies
• Innovation and Delivery
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of analytic and AI solution developments
• Identify opportunities for technological advancements, applicable technical patterns, and innovation.
• Direct an innovation pipeline from experimentations, to development, to maturation
• Provide technical guidance, managing timeline, and ensuring quality and scalability of deliverables 
• Foster a data-driven decision-making culture and prioritize responsible AI

What you’ll need:

Must-haves

• 8+ years of management experience hiring and developing data-centric development teams
• 12+ years of experience in data science and machine learning
• Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in a quantitative field Math, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning
• Proven success in growing and managing geographically distributed teams and fostering multi-functional collaborations
• Track record of translating complex business problems into end-to-end data analytics products with a quantifiable business impact
• Demonstrated success in maturing machine learning prototypes into scalable software
• Experience with US managed care design and operations

Nice-to-haves

• Strong preference for healthcare experience, specifically experience in Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, Risk Adjustment and Quality Measures
• Hands-on experience with large-scale healthcare administrative and clinical data
• Familiarity with healthcare body codesets, terminology and ontology
• Prior experience in B2B enterprise SaaS startup

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana*: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition 
2. Meet with the Hiring Manager
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Case Study
5. Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.