Risepoint

Risepoint

Director, Data Science

US - Remote, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 86 days ago
PythonSQLDatabricksMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnSparkData ScienceNLPLLMsMLOpsStatisticsA/B TestingCadenceLeadership

About the role

  • It will show up in conversations, decisions, and outcomes for hundreds of thousands of students.
  • Technical Leadership - Scale a multidisciplinary team by fostering a culture of ownership, analytical rigor, and rapid iteration.

Responsibilities

  • You'll lead a multidisciplinary team across three interrelated domains:
  • Integrate disparate signals to build a unified, real-time view of student intent and experience.
  • Tech Product Analytics & Experimentation - Drive the experimentation roadmap (A/B testing, feature rollouts, behavioral studies) with statistical rigor to ensure AI-powered product decisions are backed by hard data.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to define technical success metrics that translate directly into business ROI.
  • Distill complex technical outcomes into compelling narratives that drive alignment and action at the leadership level.
  • Voice & Text as a Strategic Asset - Conversational data is no longer raw signal - it's a structured, queryable source of truth that drives product and operational decisions
  • Drive next best action, propensity, and intervention models from discovery through deployment, with governance and monitoring frameworks that ensure they stay accurate and reliable in the wild.
  • A builder's mindset - you create structure from ambiguity and rally people around shared goals
  • A track record of translating complex models and analyses into narratives that drive executive action

Requirements

  • We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service.
  • The ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on technical work without losing altitude
  • 5+ years leading multidisciplinary data science or analytics teams

Benefits

  • Machine learning models & Lifecycle - Build cutting edge machine learning models and own the end-to-end lifecycle of production ML models powering predictive and conversational AI experiences.

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