Head of Data Science at Competera

In Competera, we are building a place where optimal pricing decisions can be made easily. We believe that AI technologies will soon drive all challenging decisions and are capable of helping humans be better. We are now looking for a Head of Data Science to lead the whole ML direction in terms of technology, organization and ML Strategy.

You could be a perfect match for the position if

You want to:

• 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.
• Own mentorship and management strategy for Senior and Lead DS and ML engineers.

You have:

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

Pleasant extras:

• 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.

Soft skills:

• Exceptional human and leadership skills.
• Being an inspirational leader and role model.
• Public speaking skills.
• Ability to explain in 60 seconds to a 70 years old grandma and 5 years old kid of how AI/Business/Organization/etc. works.
• Negotiation skills.

You’re gonna love it, and here’s why:

• Rich innovative software stack, freedom to choose the best suitable technologies.
• 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.

Drive innovations with us. Be a Competerian.

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