Director of Data Science

About the role

Collaborate with cross-functional partners in operations, finance, marketing, and engineering to understand business imperatives and scope data science projects.

Responsibilities

• Explore possibilities to solve the business imperatives by identifying data sources, creating data where needed, and applying data science techniques.
• Create data-informed business strategies and roadmaps with the VP Data, VP of Analytics, and CFO.
• Translate data needs into data product requirements, evaluate technologies, and identify opportunities to innovate and improve data science capabilities.
• Use creative problem-solving skills to analyze data and build statistical / machine learning models to help solve business problems from different perspectives.
• Work with data engineering lead to create services that can ingest and supply data to and from both internal and external sources and ensure data quality and timeliness.
• Build the data science team and lead in data scientist recruitment process.
• Guide and coach data scientists and own the deliverables of data visualization and dashboards to help the organization monitor performance, generate insights, and continuously improve user experience.
• Continuously grow the data science team’s skillsets.
• Establish playbooks to drive data product development process and consistent outcomes.
• Lead the full lifecycle of model development, which spans from business problem discovery, data discovery to model deployment and monitoring.
• Evangelize data science across the entire company; identify and make the business case for data science based use cases.
• Where needed, conduct hands-on wrangling, processing, cleansing, and verifying data from different sources used for analysis.
• Analyze data with complex relationships, hierarchical levels, and time series, such as Pandas, PySpark.
• Use and recommend a wide range of machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling, including latest LLM developments.
• Utilize data visualization and dashboard tools, such as Tableau, PowerBI and Snowflake.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or U.S. equivalent in Quantitative Methods, Statistics, Econometrics, or related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, Operations Research Analyst, or any occupation, job title, or position leading a data science team in a technology organization.
• Experience in implementing data science solutions by identifying relevant data sources, creating data pipelines, and applying advanced data science techniques to support business decision-making.
• Experience designing and developing machine learning models and statistical algorithms to analyze structured and unstructured data from both internal and external sources.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements, define technical scopes, and deliver actionable data insights.
• Experience utilizing tools and libraries including Python, SQL, Spark, PyTorch, Pandas, and PySpark to perform data wrangling, cleansing, and advanced analytics.
• Experience developing and maintaining data visualization dashboards using tools including Tableau to monitor performance and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Experience establishing scalable data product development processes through consistent use of playbooks, code standards, and reproducible pipelines.
• Experience leading the full lifecycle of machine learning models from business problem discovery to model deployment and performance monitoring.
• Experience evangelizing data science practices across organizations, including coaching team members, supporting recruitment efforts, and promoting a data driven culture.

Qualifications

• Up to 10% domestic travel required for meetings/clients visits.
• Must reside in U.S.
• Reports to HQ in New York, NY.

Benefits

• Salary: $336,350 - $356,350 per year.

Schedule

• 100% remote.

Pay

• $336,350 - $356,350 per year.

Contact

Contact: Apply online at fanaticsinc.com/careers or email resume to: WorkWithFanatics@FanaticsInc.com. Must specify Ad Code ZCKM in subject line.