Data Scientist

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

This Data Scientist will focus on solving our most complex and pressing business problems.  They will work to deeply understand the business and its vast and varied datasets and develop and execute realistic, sophisticated research plans, leveraging advanced statistics, machine learning, and other quantitative approaches to derive new, compelling insights.  They will have the opportunity to work creatively with a team of mixed disciplines, including other data scientists, and see their work used to guide critical business decisions and enable the growth of our Digital business unit.

The Data Science team at Intuitive works with business partners across the company. Our work is very iterative, very collegial, and requires outstanding communication skills. It requires a personality that is inquisitive and collaborative, and can communicate exceptionally well with non-data-scientists to demonstrate the true value of the work. This Data Scientist must have a proven track-record of insight generation from data, extreme curiosity of the unexplored or unexplained, great attention to detail, no fear of incomplete or messy data, and, most importantly, a passion to improve patient outcomes.

Essential Job Duties

• Conduct research using a variety of datasets and statistical and mathematical techniques to answer complex questions and deliver value to the Digital business unit and other departments.
• Develop a close working relationship with business partners, Digital stakeholders, and the members of the Data Science team.
• Present and discuss findings to Digital leadership in a collaborative, iterative and sometimes unscripted environment, as well as in more formal settings.
• Deeply understand the customer journey for our varied customers. Understand the sale of $2M+ surgical systems, and of the consumables that work with them; understand the partnership between Intuitive Surgical and a surgeon as that surgeon decides to adopt the technology.
• Build data foundations and develop models that attempt to explain, for example, variance in the behavior of surgeons. Collaborate with the team in developing testable hypotheses.
• Develop statistically driven insights therefrom, that give Digital leadership and others potent insights by which they better understand factors affecting our business, and from which they may make critical business decisions.
• Apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to measure product impact and surgeon learning curves.
• Use domain knowledge and statistical expertise to design scientifically rigorous prospective and retrospective studies.
• Create and automate powerful yet digestible visualizations to enable unaided consumption by business partners.
• Build and help operationalize predictive models for internal use.
• Identify gaps in data capture or data quality, and surface the value attached to filling those gaps.
• Collaborate with fellow data scientists on our team.  Collaborate with various other teams for cross-domain analytics.
• Be a champion of a data-driven decision-making culture and lead by example.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated ability to trust, and to be trusted. Unimpeachable character.
• Demonstrated ability to think analytically and use sound judgment; capab