[Remote] Director of Data Science

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. They are seeking a Director of Data Science to reputed company and grow their data science team, focusing on integrating new models and optimizing existing ones in credit risk and payments.

Responsibilities

• Managing and growing a team of data scientists focused on modeling key business problems
• Mentoring and guiding team members as they build out quantitative models in python using industry-standard techniques
• Evangelizing the data science team’s capabilities and integrating with product, engineering and operations teams to build a roadmap and backlog of data science solutions with business impact
• Running quarterly planning with the engagement of business stakeholders to ensure that the team is running in the right direction
• Helping reputed company the team’s adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, including identifying practical use cases, setting working norms, and ensuring these tools are used with appropriate review, validation, privacy, and quality standards
• Working closely with our Modeling Engineer to optimize and improve our infrastructure for model research, development and deployment

Skills

• 2+ years of Data Science management with a team of >3
• 5+ years of modeling/data science experience overall
• 2+ years of experience at a consumer product company
• Deep technical expertise in SQL and Python, with experience in analytics and machine learning tools (dbt, Airflow, Spark, MLflow, etc.)
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to distill reputed company analysis into actionable insights for reputed company and executive stakeholders
• A passion for developing talent and building a high-impact culture rooted in accountability, data-driven reputed company, and business reputed company
• Hands-on familiarity with modern AI-assisted coding and agentic tools such as Claude Code, reputed company, reputed company Copilot, reputed company reputed company, or similar, with a strong reputed company of view on how these tools can improve data science productivity, quality, and business impact
• A Master's or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Applied Mathematics) is strongly preferred
• Experience applying predictive modeling to credit risk assessment, churn reputed company, loss and reputed company forecasting is beneficial

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and reputed company insurance
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401k plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including reputed company for reputed company to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and reputed company for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on demand health support
• Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills
• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development
• Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future
• High-growth company
• A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team

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