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Sr. Manager/Director, Data Science
Salesforce
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Sr. Manager/Director, Data Science
San Francisco, CA
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes's "World's Most Innovative Company" six years in a row and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.
Description
We are looking for a Sr. Manager/Director to lead our Pricing Intelligence team. This role will be involved in developing the vision and future direction of Pricing Intelligence analytics and data science solutions and executing on this vision by conducting predictive pricing and deal related analyses. This is a great opportunity for a highly analytical individual to lead a team that is the driving force behind critical deal related intelligence, providing actionable insights into our deal economics & key business drivers.
This role requires strong statistical and machine learning background and the ability to create new measurement frameworks where none existed. This individual will conduct data analysis, develop algorithms and predictive models, and build metric scorecards for a broad audience within the company. This role will provides significant exposure to the company leadership and ability to collaborate with various functions at differing levels of seniority. You will get to work with seasoned industry experts, gaining experience in a world class organization.
Responsibilities
• Develop the vision and long-term direction for our pricing and deal analytics solution
• Mine large amounts of data and perform large-scale analysis to extract actionable business insights
• Leverage statistical analysis and build predictive models to provide actionable insights into deal economics and key business drivers
• Manage a team to create a scalable and sustainable platform to deliver pricing related analytics
• Partner closely with Sales, Deal Desk, Enablement, Pricing Strategy, Product Strategy and other functional leaders to proactively build a variety of statistical models
• Evolve Pricing Intelligence function by utilizing, creating, and designing systems and processes that proactively support Salesforce's rapid growth
Required Skills/Experience
• 8+ years or experience in highly analytical roles; 5+ years of experience in data science role focused on solving analytical problems using statistical/quantitative approaches (or equivalent)
• Passion for creative problem solving and comfort with ambiguity; extensive experience using data to solve critical and complex questions
• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, or related quantitative fields
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, experience with mining large data sets, and delivering statistical and predictive models in statistical environment (e.g. SQL, R, JMP, SAS, SPSS, Weka, Tableau, Business Objects)
• In depth proficiency with MS Excel
• Distinctive prioritization and time management skills
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with different levels of management
• Demonstrated ability of working and excelling in high pressure environments with minimal supervision
• 2+ years of direct people management experience