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Job Description - VP of Data Science - REMOTE
VP of Data Science The VP of Data Science will work across organization to help create alignment through data and accelerate our growth through the strategic application of data. This will require an understanding of core business intelligence principles, the requirements for developing production ready machine learning models as well as an understanding of modern data management systems. Having experience collaborating across product, engineering, and operations is a must. As the VP of Data Science , you will lead a team of data scientists and BI analysts tasked with interpreting business drivers, designing, and launching innovative features for the portfolio. Working with a matrixed team of operations, product managers and onshore and offshore development teams you will support the evolution of the profiles offer, support an ongoing effort of automation and nurture the growth of machine learning powered service offerings. This mission-critical role is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious individual, well versed in commercializing data products to help build out a new generation of products and solidify key competitive differentiators. Innovate Through Application of Data:- Work in conjunction with product development teams to establish a data science foundation to driving product success.
- Support the creation and curation of a central data repository to feed models and business intelligence tools.
- Identify and standardize data science tools and methods that support Profiles production platforms.
- Provide guidance for the upskilling of stakeholders on Data Science and Data Engineering best practices and principles.
- Work with the broader leadership team to foster a data driven culture
- Guide the creation and deployment of Machine Learning and other modeling techniques for enhancing product delivery
- Partner with engineering and operations to support the implementation of Client models
- Guide our data analysts, and business intelligence function to enable data-driven insights and forecasting.
- Work with the BI teams to operate our data platform and business intelligence solutions such that it meets the scalability, performance, and data insight requirements of stakeholders.
- Understand
- Profiles business model, identify strategic insights, inform leadership, and recommend execution plans against insights.
- Work with Operations stakeholders to empower them to have full visibility and accountability into the performance of client work.
- Work with Product stakeholders to ensure that product and platform development is data driven and links to business success.
- Collaborate with wider BI stakeholders on common metrics for assessing business performance.
- Bachelor's Degree in quantitative area such as math, statistics, computer science, information management with an emphasis on statistical and analytical skills
- 10+ years of architecting data and business intelligence platforms/ data warehouse
- 5+ years of experience building, designing, and managing machine learning models with a focus on optimization
- Strong Excel skills
- Experience with Azure Client Studio
- Experience presenting data and using data visualization tools such as Power BI
- Expert in R/Python
- Experience implementing Client models into production environments
- A history accessing, cleaning, and extracting predictive signals from large, unstructured, and often noisy data sets
- Experience with time series forecasting, using machine learning (Regressions, Random Forests, etc) and predictive modelling techniques
- Experience effectively leading teams
- Understanding of the technical architecture of complex and highly-scalable web applications and integrating technical concepts
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Must have an interest in working in a highly collaborative environment
- Must be a "doer" with a "roll up your sleeves" attitude
- Experience transforming vague problems into algorithmic solutions
- Strong manager of people and projects across reporting lines
- Excellent influencing skills and a proven collaborator
- Highly organized with outstanding project management and execution skills
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; strong bias for action
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