VP Data Science | Scrabble
Job Description
Primary Responsibilities
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● Envision and drive the data science charter in Zepto and lead a team of world class data scientists.
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● Collaborate with functional leaders across Zepto to understand opportunities and process gaps and improve via data science interventions
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● Build and iterate on AI/ ML solutions across the board to improve business metrics
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● Design and run data backed experiments to improve the models to drive higher business impact.
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● Wear the Zepto badge with pride. We are looking for owners – not employees.
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● We want everyone to be passionate about our mission and serve as culture
carriers
What Are We Looking For?
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● PHD in Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics from a reputed institute
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● 10+ years of experience in the data science domain and 5+ years of managing
a team.
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● 2+ years of experience in consumer internet companies
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● Experience in leading a research team of data scientists of at least 10
members.
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● Ability to mentor junior and senior team members on their journey to become
top class data scientists.
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● Ability to structure real life problems into statistical or ML problems as per
need.
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● Strong understanding of statistical techniques and methods such as
distributions(poisson, binomial), data intricacies(independent, skewness,
kurtosis etc).
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● Ability to experiment with different approaches and proven track record of
solving ambiguous and highly complex data problems
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● Experience in building data analytics, pipelines and deploying ML models in
public cloud
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● Exceptional communication skills (Written/Verbal)
