As a Product Data Scientist Manager in the Play Apps team, you will collaborate with stakeholders across Play Apps to define metrics and lead a team of data scientists to deliver impactful analysis. You will be responsible for setting the team's goal, priorities, and roadmap to support our partner Product Management and Engineering teams. You will play an integral role in setting Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for partner work streams and providing thought leadership to unlock insights. The artifacts your team develops will be key inputs for product development and operational decisions.
In this role, you will lead and mentor data scientists to deliver insights and high-quality data models that influence product and business strategy, enabling teams to make critical decisions that delight users and grow our business.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 10 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- 3 years of experience as a people manager within a technical leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience in identifying opportunities for business/product improvement, defining/measuring the success of those initiatives, and effectively collaborating with Cross-functional (xFN), Cross-Product Area (xPA) teams.
- Experience in one or more of these methods, such as statistical and causal inference, classification methods.
- Experience in developing ML models, analysis and approaches.
- Experience in e-commerce.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to deliver findings of analysis.