Remote Director Data Science

Summary

Canvs AI is seeking a Director of Data Science to lead the data science and analytics team, influence organization, collaborate with executives, stakeholders, product, and engineering, hire, mentor, and grow a world-class data team, understand business and technical requirements, communicate goals, priorities, timelines, and obstacles to execs and other stakeholders, directly contribute to team goals with 50-75% hands-on involvement, develop and codify processes and best practices for modeling, testing, and analytics, collaborate with the team and CTO to define and direct the technical strategy for the data science ecosystem, balance short-term delivery with long-term direction and value.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant data science and analytics experience
• 3+ years of hiring and managing data scientists, analysts, and/or engineers
• Strong leadership skills - the ability to identify the best ideas, socialize them, and rally the team around them
• Demonstrated experience creating production ML pipelines (training, scoring, leveraging in real-time systems)
• Expert knowledge of modern machine learning algorithms (regression, classification, random forests, clustering, optimization, etc.) and statistical inference
• Deep understanding of Data Warehousing principles and practices
• Hands-on experience and expertise with Python Frameworks
• Experience with the AWS data ecosystem and technologies

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and inspire a team of data science engineers
• Help drive a data-first culture where data is leveraged in decision-making
• Hire, mentor, and grow a world-class data team
• Understand business, and technical requirements and set priorities
• Communicate Data Team goals, priorities, timelines, and obstacles to execs and other stakeholders
• Directly contribute to team goals with 50-75% hands-on involvement
• Develop and codify processes and best practices for modeling, testing, and analytics
• Collaborate with the team and CTO to define and direct the technical strategy for the data science ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong people management, mentoring, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment

Benefits

• Salary Range: $180,000 - $250,000
• Tremendous opportunity for career growth
• Strong culture and commitment to values
• Flexibility via a fully distributed company (Work From Anywhere!)
• Generous health benefits
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Summer Fridays
• Monthly (at a minimum) virtual team-building events