Director - Data Science - BFSI

We are looking for a Leader in DataScience team who is passionate about building delightful products for our users in India. You should be customer obsessed, smart and analytical, strategic yet execution focused, passionate about solving problems through technology, and must have shown some entrepreneurial leadership in the past. You will work closely with the Business, Engineering and Data teams.

Responsibilities

- 10-14 years of experience in solving problems using various machine learning techniques

- Bring leadership and a principled approach to engineering to set up your team for success

- Collaborate for impact across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

- Driven multiple projects from problem formulation to delivery.

- Deep knowledge in fields like statistics, machine learning, AI, etc

- Worked on a broad variety of problems spanning image processing, natural language processing, recommender systems, etc

- Successfully applied data science techniques to different problems thereby improving the relevant metrics significantly

- Led a team of Data Scientists and/or Machine Learning engineers before

- Updated with the latest developments in the field of data science

- Make hiring decisions and be involved in interviewing and mentoring new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team

- Drive the evolution of Data & Services products/platform with an impact focused on data science and engineering

- Work with a team of high-performing analytics, data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to build on newer product solutions, optimize product performance or go to market strategy

- Participate in development of data and analytic infrastructure for product development

- Participate in identification and evaluation of data elements to deliver analytics for product development

- Continuously innovate and determine new approaches & technologies to solve business problems and generate business insights & recommendations

Requirements

- Work with teams across various domains like Recommendations, Personification, Search, Content Generation, Sales Optimisation, etc.

- Lead all machine learning implementations

- Be responsible for researching and ideating solutions to complex problems and help in their implementation

- Continuously track important metrics and keep researching novel techniques to improve them

- Mentor the Data Sciences Team and help the team members grow

- Research on applying machine learning techniques to improve the online learning experience.