Manage a multidisciplinary data science team (analytics, engineering, and modeling) while fostering technical and professional growth through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
Navigate ambiguity, driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development in cross-functional teams.
Partner with function leads and senior leadership to align growth paths, performance expectations, and strategic goals with technical excellence standards.
Translate the Data Science vision into clear objectives, priorities, and milestones, ensuring effective project scoping, resourcing, and delivery.
Define and refine agile workflows tailored to data science, managing key rituals such as design sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Serve as the primary delivery interface across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, ensuring alignment, transparent communication, and continuous improvement of team operations.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in data science, data engineering, or machine learning–related roles.
2+ years in a people management or delivery management role (directly leading technical contributors).
Proven experience managing cross-functional technical teams and driving delivery across multiple workstreams.
Strong understanding of data science lifecycle (from ideation and experimentation to deployment and maintenance).
Practical experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and delivery facilitation.
Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to balance technical depth with delivery discipline — ensuring outcomes, not just output.
Bonus Points
Experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Technical Program Manager.
Background in a hybrid data science/product engineering environment.
Exposure to customer-facing or forward-deployed data science work.
Familiarity with ML ops, model governance, and productionization best practices.
Experience in scaling data science orgs and defining operating models.
Benefits
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Total compensation package does include stock options, benefits and additional perks.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data sciencedata engineeringmachine learningagile methodologiesScrumKanbanML opsmodel governanceproductionizationproject scoping