Lead Data Scientist

DemandTec

Lead Data Scientist overseeing ML and GenAI capabilities for DemandTec's retail analytics platform. Collaborating with global teams to optimize pricing, forecasting, and promotion strategies.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSparkSQLTableauTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical roadmap for ML/AI models powering price optimization, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and markdown recommendations.
Architect and lead development of GenAI-powered agents and copilots (e.g., pricing copilots, demand intelligence agents) in partnership with engineering and product.
Set technical standards for model development, validation, and MLOps across the data science organization.
Mentor, coach, and grow a distributed team of data scientists, including direct oversight of the China and Poland-based team.
Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate retail and trade-promotion business problems into Data Science solutions.
Make build-vs-buy calls on LLM/GenAI tooling and vendor platforms together with ENG.
Present model performance, technical roadmap, and AI strategy to executive leadership and, where relevant, customers and prospects.
Track emerging AI/ML techniques and assess their applicability to retail and CPG use cases.
Develop scalable feature engineering workflows over large retail datasets.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in data science or applied ML, including 2+ years leading data scientists or a technical team.
Proven track record shipping production ML models at scale.
Experience designing, building, and shipping models for price elasticity, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and similar retail/CPG use cases.
Strong communication skills — able to translate technical work into business impact for executives and customers.
Proficiency in Python, SQL, and machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
Familiarity with GenAI frameworks (e.g., LLMs, Dify, LangChain, RAG pipelines).
Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).
Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and modern MLOps practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Own the technical roadmap for ML/AI models powering price optimization, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and markdown recommendations.
Architect and lead development of GenAI-powered agents and copilots (e.g., pricing copilots, demand intelligence agents) in partnership with engineering and product.
Set technical standards for model development, validation, and MLOps across the data science organization.
Mentor, coach, and grow a distributed team of data scientists, including direct oversight of the China and Poland-based team.
Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate retail and trade-promotion business problems into Data Science solutions.
Make build-vs-buy calls on LLM/GenAI tooling and vendor platforms together with ENG.
Present model performance, technical roadmap, and AI strategy to executive leadership and, where relevant, customers and prospects.
Track emerging AI/ML techniques and assess their applicability to retail and CPG use cases.
Develop scalable feature engineering workflows over large retail datasets. 🎯 Requirements
7+ years of experience in data science or applied ML, including 2+ years leading data scientists or a technical team.
Proven track record shipping production ML models at scale.
Experience designing, building, and shipping models for price elasticity, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and similar retail/CPG use cases.
Strong communication skills — able to translate technical work into business impact for executives and customers.
Proficiency in Python, SQL, and machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
Familiarity with GenAI frameworks (e.g., LLMs, Dify, LangChain, RAG pipelines).
Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).
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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningData ScienceModel ValidationFeature EngineeringPrice Elasticity ModelingDemand ForecastingPromotion Effectiveness ModelingMLOps PracticesSQLData Visualization

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsMentoringCoaching