Director of Data Science

Seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Science Director to join a remote team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, collaborate with clients to understand their challenges, and deliver cutting-edge solutions using advanced data analytics and predictive modeling. If you have a strong background in data science, excellent communication skills, and a proven track record of managing successful data-driven projects, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities :

• Provide technical leadership in a team that generates business insights based on big data, identify actionable recommendations, and communicate the findings to clients.
• Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data.
• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, and other business outcomes
• Synthesize ideas/proposals in writing and engage in productive discussions with external or internal stakeholders
• Organize and manage multiple data science projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of work experience in Data Science or a related technical field
• Bachelors Degree or higher in Statistics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Marketing Research or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience applying data science to solve problems such as new customer acquisition, attrition management and product mix models
• 4+ years experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis
• Experience leading other data scientists in machine learning projects
• Hands-on expertise with Python and other data analytics/programming tools
• Hands-on expertise in the application of machine learning techniques
• 2+ years of experience leading 2+ data scientists in machine learning projects
• Recent experience working with and presenting to clients
• Recent experience coordinating offshore relationships and Data Engineering activities