About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists.
- Own all data science systems and models in your charter, from strategy to deployment and monitoring.
- Collaborate with senior product, engineering, and business leaders to define and prioritise impactful DS initiatives.
- Drive platformization, system architecture decisions, and ML lifecycle improvements across the charter.
- Ensure model scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, while upholding best practices in experimentation and statistical rigour.
- Guide the team in reading and implementing state-of-the-art research, and facilitate build vs. buy decisions.
- Lead RCA for critical production issues and improve system observability, documentation, and service uptime.
Requirements:
- Master's degree (PhD preferred) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- 10+ years of experience in Data Science or Analytics, with at least 2-3 years of people management experience.
- Experience in the search and recommendation side.
- Proven track record of building and deploying ML models in production at scale.
- Experience managing teams of 10+ data scientists and delivering across cross-functional charters.
- Deep expertise in ML algorithms, experimental design, and performance monitoring.
- Strong coding skills (Python, SQL) and familiarity with Big Data technologies like Spark, Hive, or Redshift.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions, prioritise roadmaps, and estimate effort accurately.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with a bias for action and clarity in execution.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience leading ML initiatives in B2C or e-commerce settings.
- Contributions to internal tools, open-source libraries, or research publications.
- Experience in personalisation, recommendations, ranking, or supply chain ML problems.
- Strong understanding of ML system performance trade-offs: latency, cost, and throughput.