About Us
InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.
Team InStride Health: Our Core Values
- Give Heart: We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated.
- Work Smart: We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
- Have Humility: We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
- Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.
About the Role
InStride Health is seeking a highly analytical and strategic Senior Forecasting Analyst to own, scale, and continuously improve our enterprise forecasting capabilities. Reporting to the Senior Director of Analytics, this role serves as the central owner of predictive modeling across the organization.
You will be responsible not only for maintaining existing forecasts, but for rigorously challenging and improving them, using advanced SQL, statistical modeling, and programming techniques to increase accuracy, reduce variance, and support executive decision-making.
This role sits at the intersection of data, analytics, and business strategy. You will translate complex modeling outputs via Looker into clear, actionable insights, build scalable forecasting infrastructure, and partner closely with Finance, Operations, Growth, and Clinical leaders to inform planning and resourcing. This is a fully remote position.
Responsibilities:
Forecasting Model Development & Optimization
- Own the lifecycle of forecasting models across various departments (e.g., Finance, Operations, Marketing).
- Develop, back-test, validate, and deploy predictive models using statistical techniques such as time series analysis, regression, ARIMA, exponential smoothing, and related methods.
- Define and monitor model performance metrics (e.g., MAPE, RMSE, bias); perform ongoing forecast-vs-actual analysis to identify drivers of variance and continuously improve accuracy.
- Design scenario-based forecasts (best case, worst case, most likely) to support planning under uncertainty.
- Document assumptions, methodologies, and limitations to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
Data Pipeline & Management (SQL)
- Write complex, highly optimized SQL queries (CTEs, window functions, advanced joins) to extract, transform, and aggregate data from the data warehouse.
- Partner closely with Data Engineering to define data requirements, improve data quality, and ensure consistency of metrics used in forecasting.
- Build and automate reliable data pipelines so forecasts are refreshed on a consistent and scalable cadence.
- Validate upstream data changes and assess downstream impact on models and dashboards.
Visualization & Reporting (Looker)
- Design, build, and maintain executive-level dashboards in Looker to surface forecasts, trends, and key drivers.
- Translate complex statistical outputs into intuitive, decision-ready visualizations and narratives.
- Maintain and extend LookML to ensure consistent definitions, metrics, and governance across the organization.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve how forecast insights are consumed by leadership.
Strategic Collaboration
- Partner with functional leaders to understand business drivers, operational constraints, seasonality, and external market dynamics.
- Serve as a trusted thought partner to Finance and leadership during budgeting, re-forecasting, and long-range planning cycles.
- Present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence, explaining not only what changed in a forecast, but why it changed and what it means for the business.
- Mentor and support junior analysts, helping raise forecasting and statistical literacy across the analytics team.
What You Need to Succeed in the Role
Must Have Qualifications:
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Data Analytics, FP&A, Demand Planning, or Data Science, with a demonstrated focus on forecasting and predictive modeling.
- SQL Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in SQL; advanced querying is second nature (CTEs, window functions, performance optimization).
- Business Intelligence: Strong experience with Looker (dashboard development and LookML) or a comparable BI platform.
- Statistical Modeling: Deep understanding of time series concepts (trend, seasonality, cyclicality) and core statistical methods.
- Programming: Proficiency in Python or R for advanced modeling and analysis (e.g., pandas, statsmodels, Prophet, scikit-learn).
- Data Storytelling: Ability to clearly explain forecast changes, drivers, assumptions, and implications to non-technical stakeholders.
- Analytical Curiosity: A natural instinct to investigate root causes and challenge assumptions.
- Judgment & Ownership: Comfort owning ambiguous problems and making recommendations with incomplete information.
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Ability to partner cross-functionally and elevate the technical maturity of teammates.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Familiarity with machine learning techniques for predictive analytics and model enhancement.
- Experience forecasting in healthcare, behavioral health, or other regulated service-based environments.
- Exposure to workforce, capacity, or utilization forecasting.
The expected annual salary for this role is between $118,000-$132,000. Actual starting salary will be determined on an individualized basis and will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific skill set, work experience, licensure, etc.
Why Join Our Team
- Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more)
- Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
- Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care
- Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem
- Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)
We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:
- Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.
- Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.
We invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.
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