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Director, Data Science
Salesforce
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Job Title:Director, Data Science
Grade:PMTS
Full/Part Time:Full-Time
Regular/Temporary:Regular
Department Overview: Data Science Apps (DSA)
The Data Intelligence (DI) team is made up of data scientists, engineers, and analysts who are dedicated to driving product and distribution strategy with data-driven insights. The DI team works with executives, product managers, designers, developers, user researchers, marketers, customer success, and sales team members across all Cloud businesses to discover new opportunities for growth and optimization, drive data-informed product strategy, and create data product experiences and actionable insights that enable our stakeholders to maximize product adoption and revenue.
Who You Are:
• Demonstrated experience as a Data Science leader, either through technical leadership as an Individual Contributor or as a Personnel Manager.
• Project management skills, including the ability to scope, deliver and and deploy predictive models in an enterprise environment
• Expert (6+ years) in statistics or machine learning (friends glaze over because you can’t stop talking about them over dinner)
• 4+ years experience in writing scalable code. Python and Spark are favorites, not your top ones? We can teach you.
• You know how to beat data into submission using languages like pandas, SQL, and Spark
• Curious and effective, you value simplicity and understand that good enough is not a cop out
• Innovative, you find that unique viewpoint to solve problems that make others run and cower
What You Will Do:
The Director, Data Science, working on problems that require tremendous creativity. You will often have to lead the team to invent new techniques to get the job done. As the Director, Data Science you will report to the VP, Data Science Apps and lead a group of 5 talented Data Scientists. You will actively participate in building AI driven applications leveraging one of the world’s largest, and most interesting, B2B data sets, providing prescriptions for Salesforce Executives to effect the bottom line. In detail a successful candidate will need to:
• Develop predictive models to solve critical business problems through smart CRM applications which help Salesforce executives to run the business
• Interface with product teams and executives, modulating communication to match the audience
• Shepherd projects through all phases, from formulation, to modeling, to evaluation, and to deployment of data science features to production
• Improve on existing processes, define best practices, and provide thought leadership around data science initiatives for the Data Science team
• Actively recruit, evaluate, hire, and mentor team members
• Partner with the executive team on how to apply the team’s models to our most challenging strategic questions.
• Work closely with your colleagues in our engineering, visualization, and analytics teams to deliver cross-functional success through our predictive applications.
Perks
• A company that cares
• Competitive salaries and generous equity
• Comprehensive health insurance plan including dental and vision
• A leadership team that gets it and are open to new ideas
• Snacks, lots of snacks
• Offices in downtown San Francisco
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