Head of data science - Zeno | Scrabble
Posted on April 14, 2023
Job Description
<div>Roles and Responsibilities </div>
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1.Build & lead a fantastic, outcome-driven data science team<br />
2.Build and own a strategic roadmap for data science in line with the business vision. Roadmap to cause significant <br />
delta in the business outcomes by leveraging data science capabilities<br />
3.Stay up to pace with the latest technologies evolving in the data science world<br />
4.Collaborate with external experts to keep feeding the team with the required knowledge to cause outcomes or <br />
create collaboration opportunities for the team to learn<br />
5.Build and own the capability roadmap of the data science team<br />
6.Partner with the founders and leadership team to drive outcomes by bringing in the expertise of data science<br />
7.Build and own the data product roadmap for the business to enable objective decision-making by every team <br />
member in the company<br />
8.Conduct hypothesis-driven exploratory analysis and select the most appropriate modeling techniques which <br />
include a variety of machine learning models.<br />
9.Own data science financial budget and ROI. Build a cost-efficient data science infrastructure</div>
<div>10.Generating insights on drivers and influencers of business to enable robust OKR planning and effective <br />
execution<br />
11.Custodian of data integrity</div>
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<div>What are the competencies needed: Should have been exposed to these aspects</div>
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1.Functional expertise<br />
1. Master/Bachelor’s in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, AI, <br />
Statistics, or equivalent).<br />
2. 8+ years of experience in managing Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Data Engineers.<br />
3. Machine learning: Expertise in quantitative analysis using ML algorithms.</div>
<div>4. Python: Proven skills in building, manipulating, and deploying models in Python.</div>
<div>5. SQL: Experienced in writing complex yet efficient SQL queries.<br />
6. Visualization: Worked with any of the visualization tools such as Tableau.<br />
7. Engineering: Experienced working with AWS environment and databases such as Redshift, and MySQL.</div>
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<div>Behavioral competencies</div>
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1.Experienced in leading experienced data scientists & analysts<br />
2.Strong problem-solving skills<br />
3.Strong collaboration skills<br />
4.High learnability<br />
5.Strategic thinking & outcome orientation</div>