Director of Data Science
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BrigitFintech
RemoteFull-TimeDirector
Salary$225,000 - $250,000, and a 15% annual bonus opportunity.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of modeling/data science experience overall, 2+ years of Data Science management with a team of >3
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMachine LearningMLFlowAirflowData scienceSparkdbt
Requirements
- 2+ years of Data Science management experience with a team of 3 or more.
- 5+ years of professional modeling/data science experience.
- 2+ years of experience at a consumer product company.
- Deep technical expertise in SQL and Python.
- Experience with analytics and machine learning tools such as dbt, Airflow, Spark, or MLflow.
- Strong communication skills with ability to distill complex analysis for executive stakeholders.
- Experience with predictive modeling for credit risk, churn, or loss/revenue forecasting is highly beneficial.
- Hands-on familiarity with modern AI-assisted coding and agentic tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or OpenAI Codex.
- Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field (Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Applied Mathematics) strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow a team of data scientists focused on modeling key business problems.
- Mentor and guide team members as they build out quantitative models in Python using industry-standard techniques.
- Evangelize the data science team’s capabilities and integrate with product, engineering, and operations teams to build a roadmap.
- Run quarterly planning with business stakeholders to ensure alignment on team objectives.
- Lead the team’s adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows by identifying use cases, setting norms, and ensuring quality standards.
- Collaborate with the Modeling Engineer to optimize infrastructure for research, development, and deployment.
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