Our client is looking for a Vice President, Data Science & Data Analytics to join our team in New York! This role will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry. We are looking to create world class digital learning experience available. Your work will help build a beautiful, personalized experience to meet every child's specific needs as they learn to read, love to read, and read to learn. Overall success in this position means you have helped the children using our products find the lessons, stories, and other content that best fit their age and interests.
The client is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development.
As the VP of, Data Science & Data Analytics, you will play a critical role in building a data culture and championing a data-driven strategy to achieve our vision around delivering the best education start to every child.
- You’ll leverage a rich dataset that has captured millions of events per day over millions of users since the founding of the company
- You will ensure that a data-driven culture is integrated within the fabric of all of our product offerings
- You will create and execute on the vision for our approach to transformative data opportunities driving the growth of our business
You will:
- Work with the leadership team in establishing a long-term vision and roadmap for data science development and applications, in alignment with organization’s growth goals
- Innovate and provide thought leadership around latest technical and algorithmic developments in machine learning and data science
- Use data-driven techniques to foster innovation within the organization, and serve as the organization’s thought leader on analytics approaches necessary for driving business impact (including AB testing, machine learning & AI)
- Support the success of various functional teams via data-driven decision making and ensure alignment across teams based on their individual data needs
- Collaborate with the CTO and define the strategy around continuous investments around data infrastructure and platform to enable critical data capabilities
- Periodically evaluate the data vendor landscape and identify strategic partnerships/ solutions that can bring high ROI to the organization as it scales
- Able to work in a hands-on fashion to ensure successful execution of data initiatives
- Nurture and grow a team of data analysts and data scientists and support their professional development
- Ensure data best practices and play a critical role in building a data-driven culture throughout the entire organization
Must Haves:
Technical Domain Knowledge
- B.S. or Master’s in a quantitative field (e.g. computer science, statistics, economics, math) or equivalent
- Have built and lead a data team that has created a data-driven culture at a company as they scale.
- 10+ years' experience working in the data science field preferred.
- Experience and track record as a data scientist delivering models within a large scale data environment
- Proficiency with Python and R, or similar analytics and programming languages
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (RedShift, S3, EC2, EMR, etc.) and Apache Spark preferred
- Familiarity with relational modeling, database applications and integrations, ETL tools, client/server solutions, and modern query languages preferred
- Familiarity with data visualization applications, like Tableau, Looker, D3/javascript
- Experience with statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and prolific A/B testing in service of real-world business challenges
People Management
- Experience managing and developing high-performance teams
- Exceptional listening skills, with the ability to ask the right questions and uncover hidden insights
- Collaborate with strategists, consultants, creatives, and technologists, and ability to integrate and draw from diverse skillsets
- Ability to engage with a wide variety of team members at different levels, delivering insights and recommendations
We like people who are:
- Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators)
- Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments
- Able and willing to learn new technologies and styles
What you’ll get:
- We offer competitive compensation including equity and full benefits
- Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers
- Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
- A chance to have a big impact
- A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally
