Sr. Director, Data Scientist

Title : Sr. Director, Data Scientist @ Deerfield, IL

Terms of Hire : Full Time

Salary : $ Open / yr + Benefits

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Role Description :

Oversees a team that provides decision science and digital analytics leadership across multiple organizations within Client, delivering best in class data insights to the business.

Provides leadership to enterprise to deliver data-driven solutions to complex problems with very high levels of ambiguity using both structured and unstructured data across the enterprise.

Job Responsibilities :

• Guide and mentor a team of data scientists to use a wide range of data science techniques for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analyses.
• Set the vision for manipulation and analyses of large and complex data sets.
• Distill the complexities of digital analytics (tagging, data, reporting) into layman's terms, providing impactful visualizations, actionable insights, and test / optimization opportunities.
• Lead the team in leveraging machine learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies to drive real-time customer-centric decision making.
• Provide analytical support and customer insights to new mass personalization programs lead team providing the scientific backbone for the targeted marketing approach.
• Build out a world-class data science team that supports Client as a key business function for data across all categories with a customer focus.
• Provide thought leadership to support key initiatives of Mass personalization, My Client, Covid vaccine, and cross-target strategies with ML and AI techniques.
• Experience with both digital campaign performance and site performance optimization (including Paid Media / SEM and SEO methods), as well as foundational knowledge of media platforms and reporting tools (Campaign Manager, Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, social platforms, etc.).
• Extensive experience in guiding decisions on leading-edge technical / business approaches and / or developing major new technical tools.
• Facilitate communication between executives, staff, management, vendors, and other technology resources within and outside the organization.

Share highly complex information related to areas of expertise. Interact with senior management to keep abreast of objectives and improve cross-functional processes and programs.

Non-Negotiable Requirements :

Deep knowledge of open-source data science and statistics packages such as Python, R, Spark, etc. Experience in data science, advanced analytics, or statistics.

Ability to interrogate data, perform analyses, interpret data, and present to business audiences. Deep knowledge of SQL.

At least 6 years of experience in direct leadership, indirect leadership and / or cross-functional team leadership.

Nice-to-Have Skills :

Advanced degree in a quantitative, computational, or technical discipline and at least 6 years of experience in quantitative or computational functions.

Master's degree or Ph.D. in a highly quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Math, Operations Research, Physics, etc.). At least 12 years’ experience leading data science technical efforts / teams.

Experience establishing and maintaining key relationships with internal and external stakeholders within a matrix organization.

You Will Enjoy :

• An opportunity to be a part of a great culture, an awesome team, a challenging work environment, and some fun along the way!
• Apply today to learn more and be part of our Growth story.

All applications will be kept strictly confidential and once shortlisted, our team will be in touch with you for further discussions.

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