Director of Data Science – Employee Benefits
The Hartford
Director, Data Science Operations
Mission Lane
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $185,000 - $226,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
NumpyPandasScikit-Learn
About the role
- Lead a data science team and cross-functional projects to innovate and improve the machine learning models used for decisioning.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of machine learning models to solve practical problems and help customers reach financial goals.
- Partner with business leaders and technical experts to develop new data sources, improve modeling methodology, and apply models with sound risk management.
- Create, deploy, and manage experiments and production models that enable efficient and accurate decisions across the portfolio.
Requirements
- Has experience applying data science to financial services and is excited to improve operations for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio that’s growing every day.
- Can make your team better every day because you can be clear about goals and the team’s purpose; can execute through education, organization, and trust.
- Can grow members of your team by helping them identify strengths and weaknesses, putting them in a position to succeed, and providing training and opportunities.
- Has a deep understanding of the field of data science and can communicate a vision for applied solutions to difficult, practical problems.
- Has created, deployed, and managed experiments and models in production systems and can speak to practitioners about principles and challenges required for applied work.
- Practices solid fundamentals with software engineering (test-driven development, code review, refactoring) and the PyData stack (numpy, scikit-learn, pandas, etc.).
- Bonus: Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech.
- Bonus: Interest in advancing operations like fraud defenses, collections, and customer experience through new data sources, experimentation, and AI tools.
