Data Scientist (forecasting & optimization) Consultant

About the role

TeamBuilder is a healthcare SaaS company focused on transforming healthcare through innovative technology. This role is fully remote but requires U.S. residency and legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Key Values

• Flexibility – Adapt work methods to meet team and customer needs.
• Accountability – Own commitments and results, and follow through as a team.
• Clarity – Communicate expectations, priorities, and decisions clearly.
• Transparency – Share decisions, feedback, and context openly and honestly.

What You’ll Do

• Forecasting model ownership:
• Build and iterate production-grade demand and volume forecasts.
• Evaluate models with backtesting and real-world performance.
• Maintain stability with retraining, drift monitoring, and failure handling.
• Improve models based on operational outcomes.
• Sit at the intersection of data and optimization:
• Define input data contracts for optimization models including capacity, constraints, and demand.
• Transform raw data into model-ready features and constraints.
• Validate solver outputs and identify infeasibility, constraint conflicts, and scaling issues.
• Trace issues back to data assumptions and constraint design.
• Convert outputs into usable schedules and recommendations.
• Model + system validation:
• Compare model output to operational reality and explain gaps.
• Run scenario analyses under different constraints.
• Improve pipelines that support forecasting and optimization quality.
• Test assumptions against real-world variation.
• Communication / translation:
• Explain models and outputs to non-technical users including operators and clients.
• Translate tradeoffs between accuracy, feasibility, and constraints.
• Deliver clear recommendations tied to business outcomes.
• Participate in client conversations and defend model behavior.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data science or applied analytics.
• Experience owning forecasting models in production.
• Strong Python and SQL, comfortable with large datasets.
• Experience working with messy data.
• Ability to explain technical work clearly to non-technical users.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in healthcare or complex operational environments such as staffing or capacity planning.
• Experience with capacity-constrained systems.
• Familiarity with solvers such as Gurobi.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Mission-driven team tackling real healthcare challenges.
• Freedom to experiment and innovate without layers of bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to shape the company’s data science culture and R&D direction.
• Flexible work environment and supportive, intellectually curious teammates.

Additional Information

• Job Type: Contracted, PT/FT, Remote
• Compensation: Hourly, potential to go Full-Time, Perm., potential for an annual performance bonus, and/or equity.
• Culture: We foster a collaborative, engaging, mission-driven culture that values innovation and prioritizes customer success.