Senior Data Scientist - Member Experience

Far Coder; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 173,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Oura is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to partner with the Member Experience team. This remote, full-time role focuses on building analytics, models, and data systems that improve support quality, predict demand, and link interactions to lifecycle outcomes across channels.

You will work across MX analytics, operations, and business systems to turn outputs into actionable actions, deliver dashboards, and drive data-driven decisions for customer satisfaction and retention.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data science or analytics, owning end-to-end business problems.
• Strong SQL and Python, with production-quality models and measurement systems.
• Experience with NLP/LLM models and evaluation workflows.
• Experience with forecasting and time series for operational planning.
• Data engineering experience unifying data across systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Databricks, AWS, Snowflake or similar.
• Excellent communication with non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a quality scoring classifier for support interactions using NLP/LLM approaches.
• Design new support analytics beyond volume and satisfaction metrics.
• Enhance forecasting models for support volume, capacity, and staffing.
• Link support interactions to member identities and lifecycle data for analyses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate needs into scalable data solutions.
• Create dashboards and decision-support tools to track operations and outcomes.
• Transform fragmented data into trusted insights for strategic decisions.

Skills

SQL

Python

NLP/LLM

AWS

Data modeling

Forecasting

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Ōura is hiring a remote candidate for Senior Data Scientist - Member Experience. This is a full time position. Work location: USA. The role typically involves technologies such as SQL, Python, Rust, Go, AWS, Data Science. Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to partner with our Member Experience (MX) organization to build the systems, analytics, and models that improve how members get support across their Oura journey. This role sits within Data Science and works deeply across MX analytics, quality, business systems, and operations to translate member support data into better decisions, better tooling, and better member outcomes. Your work will help Oura measure and improve support quality at scale, evolve how we forecast demand and staffing needs, and connect support interactions to broader member lifecycle outcomes such as satisfaction, retention, and churn. This is a full-stack data science role that requires strong data foundations, pragmatic model development, and the ability to turn technical outputs into operational and strategic action.

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain a quality scoring classifier for support interactions using modern NLP and LLM-based approaches, including evaluation, versioning, and recurring accuracy review processes.
• Design and develop new support performance metrics and analytics that go beyond traditional volume and satisfaction reporting, such as member effort and case complexity, to better understand where the member experience breaks down and why.
• Enhance our forecasting models for support volume, capacity, and staffing demand using strategic business signals, enabling more responsive operational planning across channels.
• Drive optimal member experience interactions by building the data layer that links support interactions to unique member identities and lifecycle data, to enable analyses of support quality, NPS, and CSAT and how they relate to retention and churn.
• Partner closely with MX, operations, and cross-functional stakeholders to define the right problems, translate business needs into scalable data solutions, and bring analytical rigor to operational decision-making.
• Build recurring dashboards, reporting tools, and decision-support systems that provide clear visibility into support quality, operational performance, and member outcomes.
• Leverage strong SQL, Python, and data engineering skills to transform fragmented operational data into trusted, actionable insights and production-ready systems that drive strategic business decisions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or advanced analytics, with a track record of owning high-impact business problems end to end.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience building analytical data models, machine learning workflows, and production-quality measurement systems.
• Experience building and evaluating NLP or LLM-based models, ideally including open-source model workflows, structured evaluation, and model quality monitoring.
• Experience with forecasting, time series modeling, or other quantitative methods used to support operational planning and business decision‑making over time.
• Strong data engineering intuition, including experience unifying and transforming data across multiple systems to create reliable, scalable datasets for robust downstream analysis and modeling.
• Experience working with modern cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, AWS, dbt, Snowflake, or similar tools.
• Proven ability to communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to non‑technical partners and to translate model outputs into recommendations the business can act on.
• Experience partnering effectively with cross‑functional and distributed teams in fast‑moving environments.
• Nice to Have Experience working with customer support, contact center, CX, or operations data.
• Experience defining or operationalizing business KPIs used to drive vendor management, service quality, or member experience improvements.
• Experience in subscription, membership, consumer technology, or digital health businesses.

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well‑being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health. What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave
• Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location.
• US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area.
• While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
• Region 1 $172,550 - $203,000
• Region 2 $158,950 - $187,000
• Region 3 $147,900 - $174,000
• A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your U.S. location.
• We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Skills required for this role include SQL, Python, Rust, and related tools for day‑to‑day development. Seniority level: Senior.