Brigit
Director of Data Science
New York City (Hybrid) · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 27 days ago
PythonGitSQLMachine LearningSparkAirflowdbtData ScienceStatisticsForecastingResearchCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- At Brigit, our Data Science team has been dramatically scaling its impact.
- Doing this will require our team to grow, but it will also require a more concerted effort to plan and integrate with product teams, understand their roadmap, and explore projects that make sense in this context.
- Managing and growing a team of data scientists focused on modeling key business problems.
Responsibilities
- Mentoring and guiding team members as they build out quantitative models in python using industry-standard techniques.
- Evangelizing the data science team's capabilities and integrating with product, engineering and operations teams to build a roadmap and backlog of data science solutions with business impact.
- Helping lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, including identifying practical use cases, setting working norms, and ensuring these tools are used with appropriate review, validation, privacy, and quality standards.
- Working closely with our Modeling Engineer to optimize and improve our infrastructure for model research, development and deployment.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience at a consumer product company
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis into actionable insights for commercial and executive stakeholders
Nice to have
- A Master's or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Applied Mathematics) is strongly preferred
Skills
- Deep technical expertise in SQL and Python, with experience in analytics and machine learning tools (dbt, Airflow, Spark, MLflow, etc.)
Compensation
- The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $225,000 - $250,000, and a 15% annual bonus opportunity.
Company info
- We are looking for a leader to enable continued adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic workflows in how the team builds, evaluates, documents, and ships data science work.
Visa & Work Authorization
- rd to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any othe
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