Director, Data Science

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant data science and analytics experience.
• 3+ years of experience hiring and managing data scientists, analysts, and/or engineers.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to identify the best ideas, socialize them, and rally the team around them.
• Demonstrated experience creating production ML pipelines (training, scoring, leveraging in real-time systems).
• Expert knowledge of modern machine learning algorithms (regression, classification, random forests, clustering, optimization, etc.) and statistical inference.
• Deep understanding of Data Warehousing principles and practices.
• Hands-on experience and expertise with Python Frameworks.
• Experience with the AWS data ecosystem and technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong people management, mentoring, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, and inspire a team of data science engineers.
• Help drive a data-first culture where data is leveraged in decision-making.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a world-class data team.
• Understand business and technical requirements to set priorities.
• Communicate Data Team goals, priorities, timelines, and obstacles to execs and other stakeholders.
• Directly contribute to team goals with 50-75% hands-on involvement.
• Develop and codify processes and best practices for modeling, testing, and analytics.
• Collaborate with the team and CTO to define and direct the technical strategy for the data science ecosystem.
• Effectively balance short-term delivery with long-term direction and value.