Head of Engineering, Payer Coding

Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world’s health data to power better decisions and advance human health. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. 

Like many startups, Datavant is fast-paced, product-driven, and focused on challenging the status quo. But cultures are defined on how they are different, not how they are the same, and we encourage you to read about the Datavant Way here.

As Head of Engineering, Payer Coding, you will be an engineering leader who shapes what we do and will set the tone for how we do it. You will be in charge of a team of “pods” (engineering manager + several engineers) developing coding-related products for Health Insurance (“Payers”) customers. Your north star will be increasing  Payer Coding revenue and margin.

In this role you will:

• Build, grow, and lead a world-class team of engineering managers and engineers who build our Payer Coding Platform
• Create the technical vision for Datavant’s suite of Payer Coding products.
• Partner with product and design to ship value to customers
• Be a critical leader of the payer products and business, delivering rapid revenue and customer growth by directing how customer use cases, capabilities, positioning, and more come together to create a winning product.
• Be the champion & driver of product innovation processes & initiatives.
• Be hands-on by leading high impact efforts.
• Be a strong communicator, coach, and mentor.

What You Bring to the Table:

• You have 15+ years of engineering experience including multiple years in leadership, managing managers, building scrappy teams from scratch and building large enterprise software.
• You are passionate about building a business that transforms the healthcare industry
• You have a hunger to win
• You can both “lead” and “do”
• You are ambitious, scrappy, tenacious, and you get things done
• You are comfortable making hard decisions and move quickly
• You are noted as one of the best problem solvers in your organization
• You have experience managing a highly functioning team of engineering teams
• You have experience in healthcare or other highly regulated field like financial services
• You are highly organized and reliable; you bring structure to complexity

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact and less by title. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $300,000 - $400,000.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. We can only see aggregate responses and are unable to view individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not! Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.