About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Data Scientist based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Investigate revenue-generating opportunities and analyze the underlying data to size, scope, prioritize, and measure product changes.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production ML systems, including batch inference, online services, and online learning models for personalization, experimentation, and automation.
- Partner with Product, Mobile Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, and MLOps teams to integrate ML systems into customer-facing features.
- Establish monitoring frameworks to evaluate the performance, reliability, and business impact of ML-powered experiences.
- Implement data, code, and model lineage practices that support secure, reproducible, compliant, and maintainable ML lifecycles.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering to improve the data ecosystem and pipelines that power experimentation and machine learning.
- Apply causal inference, experimentation, and advanced analytics to guide product and monetization decisions.
- Mentor other data scientists and help define best practices for advanced analytics, experimentation, and production ML development.
- Use Claude Code and other AI tools throughout data discovery, modeling, coding, testing, and experiment evaluation.
- Help establish and communicate effective AI-native workflows, raising the AI fluency and productivity of data science and engineering teams.
- Work closely with business leaders to translate analytical findings into actionable product and revenue strategies.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in a discipline requiring sophisticated statistical analysis, or equivalent professional experience.
- 6+ years of experience scoping, building, analyzing, and deploying ML-powered systems, including models shipped successfully to production.
- Significant programming experience with Python, scikit-learn, PySpark, and causal inference tooling.
- Strong understanding of software engineering practices, including testing, modularization, version control, and production-quality development.
- Professional experience applying modern causal inference and causal analysis techniques.
- Significant experience working with existing datasets, designing instrumentation to generate new data, and implementing transformations for complex analyses and ML development.
- Hands-on experience designing, monitoring, and analyzing experiments within consumer technology environments.
- Experience building ML systems or conducting experimentation within a B2C technology company, ideally involving subscriptions, transactions, advertising, or other revenue-generating products.
- Strong communication and project leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
- A structured, hypothesis-driven approach to solving ambiguous problems using data and experimentation.
- Experience using LLMs or generative AI for advanced data processing, analysis, development, or research workflows.
- Experience with digital advertising and ad-tech infrastructure is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with ranking and grouping algorithms for content feeds is a plus.
- Experience contributing to or managing production feature stores and ML model registries is preferred.
- Experience partnering with product-line general managers, including exposure to revenue reporting and forecasting, is advantageous.
- Knowledge of subscription products, lifecycle marketing, user acquisition, geospatial data, or mobile location-based services is a plus.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to critically review AI-generated code, analyses, and models while remaining accountable for everything shipped.
- Willingness to continuously experiment with emerging AI tools and turn useful discoveries into repeatable team practices.
Conditions
- Annual base salary of $175,000–$218,000 USD, with final compensation determined by experience, skills, background, and geographic location.
- Equity compensation through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with plans fully paid for U.S. employees.
- Life and disability insurance and additional supplemental benefit options.
- 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Paid parental leave.
- Mental Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible paid time off, companywide holidays, and summer and winter shutdowns.
- Learning and development programs to support ongoing career growth.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for an effective remote working environment.
- Remote-first work culture.
- Complimentary premium membership and connected-device benefits.
- An AI-native working environment where modern AI tools are integrated into data discovery, development, experimentation, and everyday productivity.
- An inclusive, mission-driven culture that values direct communication, integrity, customer impact, and accountability.