Data Science Manager

Summary

Join Shift Technology, a leading AI platform for insurance, and lead a team of 20+ Data Scientists in developing a Fraud Detection solution for the French market. Oversee team staffing, development, and individual growth while serving as the primary escalation point for customer issues. Scale solution deployment and maintenance, and support French Sales and Presales teams by presenting product demos to potential clients. The team focuses on building advanced fraud detection algorithms, analyzing insurer data to detect fraud, and working closely with clients to understand their needs. This role requires strong leadership, technical skills, and client-facing abilities. The ideal candidate will be located in the Paris area.

Requirements

• You are living in the Paris area, with easy access to our headquarters (12th Arr.)
• You have at least 5-7 years of Data Science experience
• 2 years leadership and managerial experience and a strong will to lead teams
• Great technical skills, experience in coding with an object-oriented language (for example Java, C# or C++)
• Very good autonomy and demonstrating initiative
• Good client facing skills, to understand the client's operational team business problems, and find creative technical ways to solve them
• Team player, as you'll interact with many other teams: other Data Science teams, Developers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Sales, Presales
• Advanced command of French, both written and spoken, equivalent to a native speaker

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 20+ Data Scientists to develop our Fraud Detection solution for the French market
• Oversee team staffing and development, support individual growth and performance
• Serve as the primary escalation point for customer issues
• Scale solution deployment and maintenance, supervising Data Science teams
• Support our French Sales and Presales teams, and present the demo of our product to potential clients
• Working with our Dev, Product and Data Science teams to build the best Fraud Detection algorithms for France
• Digging into insurers data to find creative methods to detect large scale fraud rings, involving providers, identity thefts, fake claims, crash-for-cash schemes and many more
• Working closely with our clients to understand their requirements and prioritise technical developments liaising with the Product team

Preferred Qualifications

• Business fluency in English - any additional languages a Plus
• Insurance industry experience is a nice-to-have, but not required

Benefits

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Company equity
• Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)