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Director, Data Science @ Upwork

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 Director, Data Science

Job Description

  • Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business
  • Lead a team to develop models that provide insights to help business and product leaders understand marketplace dynamics, customer value, user behaviors, fraud activities, and long-term trends
  • Hire, scale, and develop a team of data scientists
  • Establish robust processes to select models to pursue in partnership with the business, drive follow through, and establish an operating rhythm to revisit and retrain models
  • Collaborate with our machine learning engineering and data platforms teams on tooling and shared feature stores
  • Get hands on to deploy prototype models into production that customize product experiences
  • Evangelize data science techniques within the broader Analytics, Data Science, and Economics team and mentor others seeking to develop more advanced capabilities
What it takes to catch our eye:
  • A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain
  • A strong track record of managing data science teams
  • Experience working with user segmentation, cohort analyses, mix modeling, random forest, regression models, and other advanced techniques
  • The insight to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way
  • Passion for getting into the details
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Previous experience in a two-sided marketplace or ecommerce business

Job Classification

Industry: Internet
Functional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Machine Learning
Role: Data Science & Machine Learning - Other
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Upwork
Location(s): Kolkata

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Keyskills:   Computer science Economics data science Data management Machine learning Director E-commerce Analytics Python Quantitative analysis

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