Director of Data
Mercury
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $320,000 - $400,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build, manage, and develop a team of 15+ data scientists across Growth, Risk, Core Product and business expansion to help Mercury make better decisions informed by data.
- Influence data analytics and data engineering culture and rigor across different levels, from executives to individual product and operations teams.
- Guide the strategy, architecture, and tooling of Mercury’s data infrastructure to enable the entire company to use data effectively.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience, including 4+ years managing a team of data science or data engineering managers.
- Be able to partner with business leaders, GMs, and Executives to ensure that they and their teams have the tools, reporting, and support to consistently make the best data-informed decisions.
- Proactively provide advanced analytics and insights to leaders that they may not be seeing.
- Be opinionated on the ways to most effectively use data to make decisions.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with data science, machine learning, statistics, financial calculations, and experimentation for commercial applications.
- Create an inspiring and empowered work environment for data scientists and data engineers to thrive, including defining clear career paths and identifying individual growth opportunities.
- Have experience working with People, Legal, Compliance, and Privacy teams to ensure that we are enforcing best practices and compliant standards for data privacy and security.
Benefits
- base salary
- equity (stock options/RSUs)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningstatisticsfinancial calculationsexperimentationdata analyticsdata engineeringdata infrastructureadvanced analyticsdata-informed decision making
Soft Skills
team managementinfluencingstrategic guidancecollaborationcommunicationleadershipempowermentcareer developmentproblem-solvingopinionated decision making