Services Data Lead

Responsibilities

• Steward and evolve the services data schema & taxonomy, providing input on additions, shifts, and associated costs for sourcing and maintenance.
• Own and iterate the curation pipeline for sourcing, screening, and tagging services; improve speed, automation, and efficiency.
• Direct a small bench of data specialists: set quality bar, write SOPs, and oversee building out a substantial batch of services.
• Collaborate across design, product, engineering, and service partners to identify high-value fields, refine review processes, and improve data presentation.
• Advise on internal tooling (admin, ingestion, dedup, QA workflows) and identify impactful improvements.
• Document a transferable playbook for the services data processes.

Requirements

• Working understanding of healthcare services data (ideally mental health): knowledge of consumer decision-making info, data sources, and update frequency.
• Strong data-schema and data-modeling judgment; experience evolving schemas that work in practice; opinions on what not to include. Fluent in Postgres/SQL.
• Instinct for how data fits into a product, reasoning from consumer needs backward.
• Real experience running data operations with human-in-the-loop or annotation components, including directing distributed specialists to a quality bar.
• Experience owning KPIs for data accuracy and freshness, with examples of improvements.
• Quality-systems and taxonomy thinking; experience writing SOPs.
• Comfortable working across product, engineering, and external partners.
• Comfortable moving fast with limited scaffolding.

Nice-to-Haves

• AI / LLM-assisted curation workflows.
• HL7, FHIR, or other health-data interoperability standards.
• Experience building or maintaining a services dataset or provider directory.

Compensation

• Hourly rate: $75 - $100, depending on experience.
• Term: Six-month engagement (~32h/week preferred), with possible extension or conversion.
• Fully remote within the US.