Remote Head of Data Science

Summary

The job at Competera is for a Head of Data Science. The role involves leading the ML direction, collaborating with stakeholders, making tough decisions, and mentoring senior engineers. The ideal candidate has experience in a similar position, leadership skills, and knowledge of MLOps.

Requirements

• Experience in a similar position in the company that moved through the scale-up stage
• Ability to make tough decisions
• Leadership and mentorship
• Optimization of organizational structure
• Experience in the Retail industry
• Worked on tabular and/or Time Series problems
• Knowledge of the current state of MLOps. Applied the MLOps principles on their work
• Experience with Python stack for ML

Responsibilities

• Own the Competera’s ML Strategy
• Ensure ML Strategy is aligned with Technology, Company and Product Strategies
• Own ML OKRs
• Collaborate with stakeholders and top management on a regular basis
• Participate in regular company meetings as a speaker
• Communication with customers and their DS/ML teams
• Decide whether DS/ML/DA expertise is needed in the teams and be responsible for hirings
• Mentorship and management of Senior and Lead DS and ML engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Causal Inference problems
• Experience with Probabilistic Programming
• Experience with optimization problems (marketing spends optimization, price optimization, budgets allocation, etc.)
• Development of XAI (eXplainable AI) in sensitive industries (finance, trading, medicine, insurance, aerospace industry, etc.)
• Experience with entities matching (or deduplication) problems
• Knowledge of System Design best practices and approaches for complex systems
• Knowledge of solutions and cloud architecture for DS and ML in public clouds

Benefits

• Remote-first ideology: freedom to operate from the home office or any suitable coworking
• Flexible working hours (we start from 8 to 11 am) and no time tracking systems on
• Regular performance and compensation reviews
• Recurrent 1-1s and measurable OKRs
• In-depth onboarding with a clear success track
• Competera covers 70% of your training/course fee
• 20 vacation days, 15 days off, and up to one week of paid Christmas holidays
• 20 business days of sick leave
• Partial medical insurance coverage
• We reimburse the cost of coworking