Founding Data Analyst

About the role

We're hiring a Founding Data Analyst to join our FinOps team and build the data foundation that powers Counsel's growth. This is an early-stage, high-impact founding role spanning data wrangling and pipeline development, defining and tracking core operating metrics, and improving reporting and operational workflows across the business.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain the data foundation that will power the entire company.
• Support the data needs of stakeholders across every function at the company, ranging from product metrics, commercial/client reporting, internal financial and operating metrics.
• Build the Operating Scorecard and management dashboards so the entire team can have visibility on business performance and one source of truth.
• Partner with Analytics Engineer to validate pipelines and metric definitions.
• Turn messy datasets into answers people can act on.
• Build and adopt AI-powered tools and workflows that make FinOps faster and efficient.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (CS, statistics, applied math, or similar), with meaningful programming experience.
• 3-5 years in a data, analytics, or finance/ops role.
• Strong SQL, and Python or a similar language to be dangerous.
• Comfort with data that's messy and real, the kind you dig into instead of flagging as someone else's problem.
• An inherent desire to be a truth seeker.
• Executive presence to represent senior leaders in cross-functional discussions.
• Genuinely curious about AI tools, and quick to find ways they can cut manual work out of your own workflow.

Bonus points

• Experience with dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
• Experience in healthcare or healthtech.
• A track record of ramping quickly into new tools, since many of ours are still being built.

What We Offer

• Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs.
• Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup.
• Compensation: Competitive salary + equity.
• Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave.

Our Values

• Patients come first. We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision.
• Innovate with optimism. We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows.
• Right answer wins. Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team.
• Simplicity over complexity. We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team.
• Do fewer things, well. We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas.