Gartner - Product Director - Data Science

What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you'll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. Were the world's leading research and advisory company, achieving consistent double-digit growth by steering clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can't find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training and career development - as well as unlimited growth opportunities. If you like working with a curious, supportive, high-performing team, Gartner is the place for you.

Product Director

About the role:

- This is a unique opportunity for a creative and charismatic individual to lead a key data science research and product development team for Gartner Algorithms and Data Insights Group, a fast growing data science organization. Our mission is to drive increasing business impact by building world class data science practices. 

- We are looking for a product owner to lead a group of data scientists, product managers, business analysts and partner with engineering team to build and launch recommendation algorithms, search algorithms and also work on a variety of business problems such as understanding retention drivers, accelerating new business growth by leveraging outside in information, optimizing sales territories through predictive modeling, collaborating with HR on people analytics and more.

- Qualitative and quantitative market research is required in order to create valuable user experiences, and having great people skills is crucial. 

- Your ability to apply Lean Product Principles to the data science process will both ensure proper ROI and fast iteration of the solution. Just as important is the intuitive ability to move towards the important vs. the interesting. This becomes especially relevant as you lead product management teams to develop the product opportunities we uncover. 

- Having a strong goal-orientation (vs. a task-orientation) and an anchoring on the client experience and business problems will help you navigate the decisions needed to build great products and deliver strong business results.

Qualifications:

- The ideal candidate will have

- Bachelor's Degree required;

- 5+ years of experience in commercial product management and solving complex data problems

- Demonstrated ability to translate quantitative analysis into actionable business strategies.

- Working experience in some of the following data science domains: Machine Learning and Predictive modeling

- Text mining and Natural Language Processing

- Recommendation systems

- Search engine and Information Retrieval

- Data analytics with multi-dimensional data

- Strong working knowledge of Lean product principles, Software development lifecycle, IT and data science/machine learning topics

- Extensive experience in gathering from and communicating ideas to, clients and key stakeholders across businesses

- Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of business, data science and technical stakeholders

- Outstanding project management skills (projects involving internal and external stakeholders) with ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads

- Ability to work in a culture that thrives on feedback and seeks opportunities to stretch outside comfort zone

- Bias for action and completion

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