Data Scientist

Company Description:

Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) is a nationwide veterinary community revolutionizing vet practice ownership and support. With an expansive network of doctor partners and co-owned animal hospitals nationwide, VPP is an established partner of choice. Through its co-ownership model, VPP provides operational support across technology, finance, marketing, learning and development, recruiting, and HR so that veterinarians can focus on providing high-quality patient care and fostering a strong culture at their individual practices. VPP has over 180 (and counting) partner hospitals with 4,000+ employees and continued growth. VPP is a dynamic, profitable, growth company with strong financial private equity backing. For more information on Veterinary Practice Partners, visit

Summary:

VPP is building an AI-enabled platform that helps our veterinary practices deliver the highest-quality animal care. Analyzing and operationalizing the data we know about our clients and hospitals into advanced analytics will be a critical pillar to this platform. We’re looking for a hands-on marketing focused Data Scientist who can turn that vision into models, experiments, and shipped product—partnering closely with marketers, veterinarians, staff, and designers/engineers in a try/fail-fast, AI-driven development culture.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with marketing, growth, operators and hospital staff to discover opportunities to enhance client acquisition, retention and upsell.


• Build the engine. Develop predictive and prescriptive models across the client journey that power acquisition, retention, and advertising efficiency.


• Lean into AI at scale. Use LLMs and ML algorithms where each is strongest


• Measure relentlessly. Design and run A/B tests and bandit experiments.


• Ship with a platform mindset. Create clean training datasets, features, and model artifacts.


• Continuously enrich signals. Explore first and third-party data and engineer features that capture clinical throughput, client retention, churn risk, and velocity.


• Stay current. Track advances in algorithms, evaluation, GenAI safety, and cost/performance tradeoffs—and apply them pragmatically.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative or technical field.


• 3 to 5 years of hands-on data science experience with EDA, predictive modeling and model-driven systems.


• Expertise leveraging advanced analytics to help optimize Google Ads and Social Media marketing campaigns.


• Experience working with digital marketing data including attribution modeling and/or MMM.


• Proficiency building, tuning, and refining models in Python (IE, pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch).


• Strong SQL experience analyzing large-scale consumer or operational datasets.


• Proficiency with A/B testing and statistical inference; comfort designing pragmatic experiments.


• Metrics-driven development mindset with a data-first approach to problem solving.


• A team player who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.


• Extreme growth mindset; deep humility with unwavering resolve to drive exceptional performance.

Ideal Candidates will Possess:

• Background in healthcare or veterinary services; familiarity with PIMS or EHR


• Experience with Azure Databricks


• Hands-on experience developing model and feature notebooks using Cursor or other AI-driven coding assistants

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the The employee needs to occasionally move about home office to access office machinery, stationary tools, etc.


• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. Hearing and visual acuity are also required.


• The employee will constantly be operating a computer and other office productivity.


• The employee may occasionally be required to lift and or move up to 10lbs by themselves.

Notes:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to perform the essential functions.

• This job description describes the ideal candidate for this position and in no way implies


• any limits to a person’s desire to apply.


• To meet the needs of the company, employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described


• Any duties are subject to change at any


• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship


• This position pays an annual salary of $140,000 to $160,00 dependent upon experience

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any legally protected characteristic.